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Inside Queen's relationship with Princess Diana who felt like a 'lamb to the slaughter'
Queen was delighted with the prospect of Lady Diana Spencer becoming her eldest son's wife.Having learned of Prince Charles' affair with Army officer's wife Camilla Parker Bowles, she felt the 18-year-old, nursery teaching assistant represented a safe choice as a bride with her father Earl "Johnny" Spencer having been a personal attendant to the Queen and her father George VI.The Queen also believed that, at 31 in 1980, it was time Charles provided an heir to the throne.READ MORE: Ex-royal butler says Queen 'was my surrogate mother' as he shares tear-jerking tributeWhat she overlooked, though, was that her son had been besotted with Camilla since the early 1970s. Charles proposed at Windsor Castle on only the 13th time he had met Diana in February, 1981.Cracks appeared even before they walked down the aisle at St Paul’s Cathedral, though, when the couple were asked if they were in love during a television interview.
