Princess Diana admits she found wedding to Charles 'ridiculous' in unheard tapes

01 September 2023 , 15:16

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Diana and Charles tied the knot in 1981 (Image: Getty Images)

Unheard clips of Princess Diana have shown how she really felt about her wedding to the current King.

Diana and the then-Prince Charles tied the knot on July 29, 1981, and new recordings have revealed what the late Princess of Wales really thought about their special occasion. In the latest reveal from audio recorded in the 90's, Diana is heard calling the "whole thing ridiculous".

The snippets were aired on Inside the Mind of the Princess which was played on ABC today (Friday, September 1). The late Princess was heard saying: "It was grown up. Here's Diana, a kindergarten teacher. I mean the whole thing was ridiculous."

She is later heard discussing Charles' relationship with her stepmother, Raine Spencer. She revealed her new husband "won't even talk to mummy," with signs of a rift already forming at the time.

New tapes have shared words from Diana regarding her wedding day (Getty Images)

Raine wed Princess Diana's father John in 1976 following her mum's departure. Diana is heard continuing in the clip: "At Harry's christening Charles went up to mummy and said: ‘We’re so disappointed, we wanted a girl’ and mummy snapped his head off and said you should realise you are lucky to have a child that's normal. Ever since that day, the shutters have come down. That's what he does when he gets somebody answering back at him."

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The revelations come as the world mourns the 26th anniversary of her death. Diana died on August 31, 1997, after being fatally injured in a car crash in Paris' Pont de l'Alma road tunnel.

In Prince Harry's latest Netflix release, Heart of Invictus, he revealed how his time in Afghanistan triggered trauma from his mother's death. In the five-part docu-series, the Duke of Sussex, now 38, explained: "Losing my mum at such a young age, the trauma that I had, I was never really aware of."

Diana also said Charles wouldn't speak to her step mum (Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)

The Duke of Sussex has spent 10years in the armed forces. During that time, he served on the front line twice and he has since shared the impact his time in the military had on his mental health. He specifically shared how he became aware of just how much his mother's death had impacted him once he left the army.

Harry was just 12 years old and brother Prince William was 15 when their mother died. Harry said in the series: "I can only speak from my personal experience. My tour of Afghanistan in 2012 flying Apaches, somewhere after that there was an unravelling, and the trigger to me was actually returning from Afghanistan but the stuff that was coming up was from 1997, from the age of 12."

Jamie Roberts