A lip reader has revealed the very important reminder the Queen gave Diana on her wedding day.
Charles proposed to her in the nursery at Windsor Castle on February 3, 1981, just six months after he started dating Diana.
Their engagement became public when the couple announced their impending nuptials on February 24, 1981, and Britain held its breath anxiously for the upcoming wedding.
They were engaged for five months before marrying in July of that year in a spectacular ceremony broadcast on screens across the country.
Charles and Diana were married at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, choosing the cathedral over the traditional royal wedding venue, Westminster Abbey, because it would accommodate more people: 3,500 guests.
MailOnline can reveal the future King said “you look perfect” and then told Diana to “give me your hand”, which she does, and then told her to “kiss it”.
When the future King saw his bride, he was greeted with chants of ‘give him a kiss’
Queen Elizabeth pointed to the crowd as she whispered to the princess to tell her to “look” at the people who “have been there all day” to see her.
A lip reader has revealed an important reminder the Queen gave to Diana on their wedding day.
MailOnline can now reveal that he said “you look perfect” and then told her to “give me your hand”, which she does, and then told her to “kiss”.
But after other members of the Royal Family joined them on the balcony, the then Prince of Wales commented: “It’s a long time.” We need to eat.’
Queen Elizabeth pointed to the crowd as she whispered to the princess to tell her to “look” at the people who “have been there all day” to see her.
When the future King saw his bride, he was greeted with chants of “give her a kiss,” to which he agreed.
Sources said that despite her shyness, Diana loved the glamor that marrying a prince would offer, and there were “some tears” and champagne when she made the announcement.
But Penny Thornton, who served as Princess Di’s royal astrologer, said Prince Charles left Diana “devastated” when he told her he didn’t love her the night before their wedding.
Charles so deeply questioned his decision to marry Diana that he considered calling off the wedding entirely, royal reporter Robert Jobson revealed in a revealing biography published in 2018.
He felt that the couple was “incompatible”, but felt that the impending nuptials were beyond his control and believed that ending the engagement would have been “cataclysmic”.
However, the Queen’s former press secretary said that despite Charles’ misgivings, the couple were truly in love and couldn’t keep their hands off each other as newlyweds.
According to Dickie Arbiter, there was a “genuine relationship” from the beginning, with “genuine love and happiness.”
They were engaged for five months before getting married.
Sources said that despite her shyness, Diana loved the glamor that marrying a prince would offer.
After divorcing, in April 2005, the Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles.
In tapes released after her death, Diana noted that the ‘Camilla affair’ had darkened the day.
“I was desperately trying to be mature about the situation, but I didn’t have the basis to do so and I couldn’t talk to anyone about it.”
The princess also revealed that she had a “very bad attack” of bulimia the night before, eating everything in sight, only to be “sick as a parrot” later.
In addition to the families of the couple, Charles and Diana’s wedding was attended by Margaret Thatcher, the then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Other guests in attendance included Nancy Reagan, French President Francois Mitterrand and a host of royal dignitaries from around the world. Camilla Parker Bowles was also present.
The event that became known as ‘The Wedding of the Century’ was broadcast on television around the world. A staggering 750 million people in 74 countries tuned in to watch Charles and Diana get married.
Charles and Diana’s vows broke with tradition when Diana omitted a promise to “obey” her husband. She was the first royal to do so, but not the last: Kate Middleton also dropped the phrase when she married Prince William in 2011, as did Meghan Markle when she married Harry in 2018.
The event that became known as ‘The Wedding of the Century’ was on televisions around the world
In April 2005, the Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles. The Queen and Prince Philip, the groom’s mother and father, were nowhere to be seen.
Both Charles and Diana failed in their vows. Diana called her new husband ‘Philip Charles’ instead of ‘Charles Philip’ and Charles completely misunderstood the phrase ‘All my worldly goods with you I share’, saying instead: ‘All your worldly goods with you I share.’
In December 1992, then Prime Minister John Major announced that the Prince and Princess of Wales had decided to separate.
In a television documentary made the following year by Jonathan Dimbleby, the prince confessed to his own adultery.
Diana’s own response to Charles came on November 20, 1995, when more than 23 million British viewers watched the princess nervously but skillfully respond to questions from Martin Bashir, a young Panorama reporter.
“There were three of us in this marriage,” was his nervous criticism of Camilla’s situation.
The dream marriage formally came to an end in August 1995.
But just a year and three days later, the British ambassador in Paris called Balmoral at around 1am, waking the private secretary on duty, Robert Janvrin, from his sleep. The embassy was receiving police reports, he said, of a serious car accident involving the Princess of Wales.
The news of Diana’s death arrived from Paris shortly before four in the morning.
And in April 2005, the Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles.
The Queen and Prince Philip, mother and father of the groom, were nowhere to be found when the civil ceremony took place.
However, Queen Elizabeth later became fond of Camilla, to the point that in 2022 the late monarch publicly announced that she would like her daughter-in-law to become queen consort when Charles takes the throne.