"Never said Diana was a saint, but she certainly didn't deserve the crap she got."
Diana had her own affairs, remember James Hewitt? Amongst others, one of whom was a married man, whom she stalked by calling him hundreds of times a day until he brought it out in the public causing her to finally stop. Charles didn't go back to Camilla until he knew just how mentally unstable Diana was. She was what's called a "delicate cutter" in shrink terminology. She would make cuts with a knife or razor up and down her arms. My best friend used to work on a mental ward at the University of Chicago, and told me all about the delicate cutters she would deal with in the course of her duties as an art therapist. They are sort of borderline schizophrenic in some cases. Schizoid. Diana threw herself down a staircase in a pique against Charles, while pregnant, and landed at the bottom at his feet, much to his horror. Diana connived and made alliances and in some senses tried to bring down the House of Windsor in her petulant attempts to get back at Charles. Destroying the whole royal family was fine with her as long as she could shaft Charles. Charles went back to Camilla because he realized Diana was a total nutcake. I haven't even brought up her bulimia, her colonics (enemas to cleanse her colon). Just what you want to be married to, a woman who spends half her life with her head in a toilet bowl. Diana had a lonely childhood and was basically ignored, and her mother left her father to marry another man. It's sad, but Diana was screwed up long before she met Charles because of her childhood experiences. Plus Diana's mother was a real oddball in her own right. Diana probably suffered from genetic peculiarities right from the onset.
Meanwhile, Camilla and Charles share many interests. She is an accomplished horsewoman, is intelligent, likes to have fun, is a good hostess for him to be with at parties, and the queen actually likes her I'm sure better than she ever did Diana. Camilla has both feet on the ground. Diana was up in the air hanging on for dear life to a balloon. Diana and Charles had nothing in common.
Remember also, that Charles was basically being forced by family pressure and royal obligations to find a young fertile woman to wed to produce heirs for the throne. He couldn't marry Camilla as she was first married to another man, and then when they split, was a divorced woman. I believe Charles actually cared for Diana for the first 3-4 years, until all her strange behaviors manifested themselves more and more. I'm happy for Charles and Camilla. She isn't a beauty like Diana, but she's not nuts either, she is a good companion for him and she seems motherly and probably brings him great comfort. So there, that's my two cents worth.
Wow....talk about making judgements about a person. Diana did this, Diana did that....were you there?
Charles NEVER left Camilla. Don't you remember the cuff links she gave him as a wedding present? They had the initials of Camilla and Charles on them. Diana didn't want to go through with the marriage after she found these cuff links but was told it was too late to back out. How would you feel on your wedding day if this had happened to you?
I also recall there first son getting injured and was put into the hosptial. Didn't they do surgery on him and didn't Charles not sit by his son's side while Diana did. How do you suppose that made her feel? While she was there, Charles went to a ballet and the English public was not happy with him at all.
I also recall Charles being very unhappy about the birth of there second son. He wanted a girl and made Diana know that he was disappointed.
Diana was no saint....but neither was Charles. Diana was practically a kid when she married him and was immature but she did want to please him. After a while, she gave up and the marriage went sour. As for Charles and Camilla....they deserve eachother. Camilla's presence in the marriage between Diana and Charles was there from the beginning and she always had her nose in there business because Charles wanted it that way. It takes two to tango and it ticks me off that so many blame everything on Diana....especially when she is no longer here to defend herself!