Royal expert Ingrid Seward said on HELLO!'s A Right Royal Podcast that Princess Diana wanted Princes William and Harry to know that King Charles genuinely loved her. "She actually told me that she really loved Charles, and he was the one she would always love," Seward said, adding that Diana considered him "the one that got away."
Diana said it was very important that the boys know their father loved her. Her letters are held in the Royal Archives under a 50-year wait.
Seward, author of the new book Catherine & Diana, said Charles wrote Diana beautiful love letters that praised her affectionately. "He may not have loved her in the very beginning, and he may not have loved her by the end, but he always loved her and he felt so bad that he couldn't make the marriage work," Seward said.
According to Seward, Diana believed that if they had met when they were older they would have made the marriage work and conquered the world, though intense jealousy and other factors left them unsuited at the time.
