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Princess Diana\u2019s<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0earliest royal crush may not have been the man she eventually married. A new book claims the late Princess of Wales spent her teenage years secretly sending Valentine\u2019s Day cards to another member of the Royal family long before\u00a0King Charles<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0entered the picture.<\/p>\n Few figures in modern history have been dissected quite like Princess Diana, but author\u00a0Catherine Mayer\u2019s\u00a0upcoming book,\u00a0\u201cDivide and Rule: Royal Women and Their Battles,\u201d\u00a0is shedding light on a surprising chapter from Diana\u2019s youth. According to Mayer, Diana reportedly developed a teenage fascination with Charles\u2019 younger brother,\u00a0ex-Prince Andrew.<\/a><\/p>\n In an excerpt published by\u00a0PEOPLE,<\/a>\u00a0Mayer writes that Diana\u2019s romantic ideals were heavily influenced by the fairy-tale romances she consumed as a teenager.<\/p>\n \u201cIf Diana failed to spot that Charles was incapable of giving her the love she craved, it cannot have helped that the love she craved was a fiction \u2014 a modern-day version of courtly love,\u201d Mayer wrote in Divide and Rule: Royal Women and Their Battles.<\/p>\n The author went on to reveal a claim from one of Diana\u2019s former school friends. \u201cBefore she ever met her future husband, she developed a passion at a distance for one of his brothers,\u201d Mayer wrote. \u201cThe schoolfriend says that every year until Diana turned fifteen or sixteen, she sent Andrew a Valentine card, anonymously, of course.\u201d<\/p>\n The revelation even caught Mayer off guard. Speaking to\u00a0The Telegraph,<\/a>\u00a0she admitted, \u201cI was quite startled when I found that out. That was new news.\u201d<\/p>\n Ironically, Diana would later play matchmaker for Prince Andrew. Years after those reported anonymous Valentine\u2019s cards, she introduced her childhood friend,\u00a0Sarah Ferguson,\u00a0to him. The connection ultimately led to Andrew and Ferguson\u2019s 1986 wedding.<\/p>\n Ferguson previously recalled Diana\u2019s enthusiasm when discussing Andrew. \u201cI said to her, \u2018Oh, Andrew\u2019s really good-looking.\u2019 And she said, \u2018Duh, Fergs!\u2019\u201d Sarah told\u00a0PEOPLE<\/a>\u00a0in 2021.<\/p>\n The book also explores how Diana\u2019s love of romance novels may have shaped her expectations of marriage and contributed to the complicated reality she later faced with King Charles. Mayer ultimately describes Diana and Charles as \u201ctwo damaged innocents\u201d who entered their marriage carrying \u201cconflicting expectations\u201d and private doubts.<\/p>\n More than two decades after her death, Princess Diana\u2019s story continues to reveal unexpected twists.<\/p>\n TELL US \u2013 ARE YOU SURPRISED TO LEARN THAT PRINCESS DIANA REPORTEDLY SENT VALENTINE\u2019S DAY CARDS TO PRINCE ANDREW AS A TEENAGER?<\/strong><\/p>\n The post Princess Diana Secretly Sent This Royal Valentine\u2019s Cards, New Book Claims<\/a> appeared first on Reality Tea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Princess Diana\u2019s\u00a0earliest royal crush may not have been the man she eventually married. A new book claims the late Princess of Wales spent her teenage years secretly sending Valentine\u2019s Day cards to another member of the Royal family long before\u00a0King Charles\u00a0entered the picture. 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