The timeline of Prince Charles and Princess Diana‘s relationship has a tragic end. Their marriage was painfully complicated, full of infidelity and two souls who were never meant to be matched.

Their divorce, 15 years after their wedding, was messy. The couple decided to start official proceedings shortly after Diana’s infamous interview with Martin Bashir after the late Queen Elizabeth II wrote them both a letter asking them to end their relationship.

But the most heartbreaking parts of their relationship played out in the press and was captured in photographs – so where did it all go wrong for Prince Charles and Princess Diana?

How did Prince Charles and Princess Diana meet?

The couple actually meet while Charles is dating Diana’s sister Sarah – they were in a relationship between 1977 and 1978. He had traveled up for a shooting weekend at their 1,500 acre family estate, Althorp.

They’d spend more time together in group settings, even after Charles and Sarah break up.

In 1980, Diana and Charles have a heart to heart as he grieves the death of his great-uncle and mentor, Lord Mountbatten, who died the year before. She says this was the moment that Charles saw her romantically.

She said: “The next minute, he leapt on me, practically. But then it sort of built up from there.”

Over the next few months, they continue meeting, which the princess later said was mostly in group settings and not alone. Their relationship is made public September of that year.

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How old was Diana when she married Charles?

Prince Charles took his relationship with Princess Diana to the next level when he proposed at Windsor Castle in February 1981

However, when a reporter asks the future king if they are in love, he replied “whatever in love” means.

750 million people across 74 countries watch their wedding at Westminster Abbey on July 29, 1981. The woman who was about to become a royal revealed she had doubts before walking down the aisle.

But her sisters said it was too late to call it off and she went through with it.

They kiss on Buckingham Palace balcony, believed to be because Charles didn’t kiss his bride at the end of the ceremony. It sparked a tradition royals have continued ever since.

Diana was 20 years old at the time, and Charles was 32.

Why did Diana cry when Charles left for a royal tour?

In 1981, shortly before they married, Diana was seen appearing heartbroken and emotional as Charles left to embark on a five-week royal tour. Many headlines paired it with his parting, claiming the tears was because they wouldn’t be together.

But that was not the case – Diana explained it was because she discovered Charles’ affair with Camilla.

In the interview, shared via archive recordings from National Geographic, Diana explains her thought process back in March 1981.

“You may recall seeing a picture of me sobbing in a red coat when he went off on his aeroplane,” she says.

“That had nothing to do with him going. The most awful thing had happened before he went. I was in his study talking to him about his trip.

“The telephone rang, it was Camilla. Just before he was going for five weeks. So I thought, ‘Shall I be nice or shall I just sit here?’ So I thought I’d be nice, so I left them to it. And it just broke my heart, that.”

Diana finds Camilla’s bracelet

The princess also spoke about finding a bracelet Charles had made for Camilla. The jewellery was part of a task the Prince of Wales gave his aide to buy pieces for women in his life to thank them for companionship before his wedding.

Charles had one made up for Camilla that featured the initials G + F, in reference to the nicknames they had for each other.

Diana continued: “I was still too immature to understand all the messages coming my way.

“And then someone in his office told me that my husband has had a bracelet made for her. I walked into this man’s office one day and I said, ‘Ooh, what’s in that parcel?’

“And he said ‘Oh, you shouldn’t look at that’. So I opened it and there was the bracelet.”

Diana went on: “I was devastated, and I said ‘Well, he’s going to give it to her tonight’. So rage, rage, rage. You know, ‘Why can’t you be honest with me?’

“But no, absolutely cut me dead. It was as if he’d made his decision, and if it wasn’t going to work, it wasn’t going to work.

“He’d found the virgin, the sacrificial lamb – and in a way, he was obsessed with me, but it was hot and cold, hot and cold, you never knew what mood it was going to be, up and down, up and down.”