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Princess Diana reportedly thought Prince Charles didn't know anything about love.
Royal biographer Ingrid Seward said Princess Diana told her how Prince Charles wasn't raised in an affectionate household.
Royal fans already knew that Prince Charles and Princess Diana had an unhappy marriage, and according to royal biographer Ingrid Seward, their relationship was filled with intimacy issues that definitely stemmed from Charles' upbringing.
In her soon-to-be-released biography about Prince Philip, Ingrid didn't hold back when it came to reporting some alleged statements from The People's Princess. According to Ingrid, Diana thought the only thing Charles "learned about love was shaking hands." Ingrid didn't mice words and straight-up said Charles suffers from "emotional retentiveness." Damn. Drag him.
Speaking of his childhood, Ingrid claimed Diana once told her that Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II never gave Charles any "hands-on love." In fact, Philip reportedly only attended two of Charles' first eight birthday parties and was often away at sea as a naval officer. And at one point during Charles' infancy, Elizabeth and Philip left him and his younger sister, Princess Anne, in England as they spent Christmas in Malta.
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Ingrid added, "Diana reckoned that if Charles had been brought up in the normal fashion, he would have been better able to handle his and her emotions. Instead, she said, his feelings seemed to have been suffocated at birth."
Continuing to summarize Diana's supposed sentiments, Ingrid continued, "Only his nannies showed him affection but that, as Diana explained, was not the same as being kissed and cuddled by your parents, which Charles never was. When he met his parents, they didn’t embrace: they shook hands.”
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Ultimately, this lead to Charles being unable to "be tactile with his own wife," adding yet another layer to their already-troubled relationship.
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Princess Diana reportedly thought Prince Charles didn't know anything about love.
Royal biographer Ingrid Seward said Princess Diana told her how Prince Charles wasn't raised in an affectionate household.
Royal fans already knew that Prince Charles and Princess Diana had an unhappy marriage, and according to royal biographer Ingrid Seward, their relationship was filled with intimacy issues that definitely stemmed from Charles' upbringing.
In her soon-to-be-released biography about Prince Philip, Ingrid didn't hold back when it came to reporting some alleged statements from The People's Princess. According to Ingrid, Diana thought the only thing Charles "learned about love was shaking hands." Ingrid didn't mice words and straight-up said Charles suffers from "emotional retentiveness." Damn. Drag him.
Speaking of his childhood, Ingrid claimed Diana once told her that Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth II never gave Charles any "hands-on love." In fact, Philip reportedly only attended two of Charles' first eight birthday parties and was often away at sea as a naval officer. And at one point during Charles' infancy, Elizabeth and Philip left him and his younger sister, Princess Anne, in England as they spent Christmas in Malta.
Photo credit: Keystone - Getty Images Ingrid added, "Diana reckoned that if Charles had been brought up in the normal fashion, he would have been better able to handle his and her emotions. Instead, she said, his feelings seemed to have been suffocated at birth."
Continuing to summarize Diana's supposed sentiments, Ingrid continued, "Only his nannies showed him affection but that, as Diana explained, was not the same as being kissed and cuddled by your parents, which Charles never was. When he met his parents, they didn’t embrace: they shook hands.”
Photo credit: Tim Graham - Getty Images Ultimately, this lead to Charles being unable to "be tactile with his own wife," adding yet another layer to their already-troubled relationship.
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