PRINCE CHARLES AND CAMILLA TV

The telephone rang it was Camilla.And then someone in his office told me that my husband had a bracelet made for her. 'I was in his study talking to him about his trip. 'The most awful thing had happened before he went,' she said. In the documentary Diana: In Her Own Words, the Princess of Wales reveals the story behind her tearful breakdown upon Prince Charles's departure to Australia and New Zealand, only days before their wedding.

Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla, with their children, after their wedding in 2005. (It’s worth noting: Dimbleby was the journalist interviewing Charles when the heir admitted to his infidelity on TV.) Either way, the bracelet was a gift for his ex, and it arrived mere days before he met Diana at the altar. According to Jonathan Dimbleby, a former BBC journalist who wrote Prince of Wales: A Biography, the initials actually stood for “Girl Friday,” another nickname Charles had for Camilla based on the film His Girl Friday. There’s some dispute about this, however.

According to RadioTimes, she knew of the nicknames not because Camilla had told her, but because she’d picked up on them from Charles’s friends and a note he’d left behind. According to author Catherine Mayer, who wrote a biography of Prince Charles, “Curled venomously amongst a pile of wedding presents and cards, Diana had discovered a bracelet bearing the initials ‘GF,’ intended for Camilla.” Author Andrew Morton wrote in his book about Princess Diana: “Despite firm remonstrations from the Prince’s righthand man,” the young Lady Spencer demanded to open a package that had arrived at the palace, and in it, she found the engraved bracelet.

PRINCE CHARLES AND CAMILLA TV

What might be even more surprising is that this moment wasn’t made for TV it, in all likelihood, stemmed from actual events. Lady Diana Spencer and Camilla Parker Bowles together in 1980.

Prince charles and camilla