A LOVE Match? Charles and Diana!

[@SusanRobbins]

I feel like a child again, loving a good story from a good storyteller!

[@janscott7565]

Listening to this book makes me feel a bit nostalgic. Lots of memories of those days, Shauna. Thank you and have a good night.

[@thevintageread]

You're welcome! Good night to you, too.

[@catherinec3045]

I think this might be the best behind the scene book you've read to us Shauna and I love the way you do it with your commentary on the happenings!

[@anitahayne8621]

Thank you for providing a channel for people who have an interest in the British royal family. No one in my life has any interest in them despite all my efforts. Your content is always enjoyable, and I love reading the comments left by your viewers. I hope you continue to discuss information taken from the older books which are now out of print. Keep the information coming.

[@thevintageread]

I am so glad you’re enjoying the content! 🙏

[@lindabridget49]

Same for me! I have no one to talk to about the RF with me.

[@ClaireBaxter]

I am really enjoying this book, and especially the way you're presenting it to us, Shauna. You do such a good job.

[@WendyPearce-z3j]

Hi Shauna just love this book rather like The House Keepers Diary and you read it so eloquently WELL DONE GIRL xx

[@thevintageread]

😘🙌

[@juliesuris8906]

Yes! Both have been written as believable behind the scenes observations and opinions. Getting Shauna's observations and opinions are an extra treat. That bit about Stephen Barry's b*tch* comment regarding Princess Grace's eldest daughter was b*tch* but funny.

[@Bshaw5074]

Thanks so much for sharing your love of books and the royal family. Love spending my Friday mornings with you😊

[@thevintageread]

Thanks! 💕

[@kazzaswan2924]

Love this book! Hope your ankle is healing well, Shauna.

[@geraldineallan6514]

This book is really good. Love all the gossip of their lives. Thanks for sharing this book.

[@janetbowersox83]

What fun today listening to the King Charles courting so many women, and how the staff reacted when his engagement was announced. So exciting! Living in the US, I got up the morning to watch the wedding! I was enthralled!

[@thevintageread]

I bet it was a truly unforgettable day! 😊

[@susanread2637]

More delightful inside information. So enjoying the peeks into King Carles' youth. Rather nice to know the relationship with Diana started off on the right foot. So sad it all went wrong. Thanks for reviewing this book...love it!! Cheers and sip from Canada 🇨🇦

[@thevintageread]

Cheers to you too! 🇨🇦

[@LupaMoon-008]

Not just the book is good, but your way to introduce and comment on it is enjoyable and fun and I am getting addict ;-) ....can´t wait for the next one! Thanks!

[@thevintageread]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@cornelia9778]

Well, those were some juicy bits. I do enjoy juicy bits. Thank you!

[@thevintageread]

Glad you like them!

[@SusanMarg]

Lovely Shauna❤ Mr Barry was so very genuous and loyal. Imagine the stories he could have told over a long boozy dinner😂😂😂

[@laynieoverby6410]

It’s always a good day when your videos pop up on my feed. Thank you for the work you put into these videos!

[@flowermeerkat6827]

I agree! 💯

[@thevintageread]

I am so glad you are enjoying them!

[@janerochester]

Oh my…….😂I was exhausted after that chapter ! I had no idea how many ladies there were in Prince Charles bachelor days! It was fun learning his preferences and all the goings on! It must have been a bit of a shock for him being married. THANKS again Shauna for bringing this all to life so wonderfully❤️❤️☕️sip!

[@thevintageread]

It was certainly an eventful time, wasn't it? 😂

[@taylorteam2901]

Oh nooo! 🥺 Another week until the next chapter 😢 TYVM ❤😊

[@thevintageread]

It will be here before you know it!

[@JaneMacdonald-z2w]

12.45 in Wales, beautiful autumnal day nice sunshine (after biblical storms) sip

[@janerochester]

Morning Shauna! Waiting with bated breath!☺️🌴🇺🇸

[@thevintageread]

Morning!

[@brontepetropoulos4755]

Is anybody else having a problem with the like button as this is happening quite often to me on a few channels, love your vid Shauna 🇭🇲👍

[@suemcdermott2947]

Me too

[@NakaidaBeauzec]

Log out and then log back in.

[@mary50-tl7hi]

Yes I turn my phone off then back on

[@mezzamuddle]

Close and reopen the app. That usually fixes the issue 😊

[@Wildflowers516]

I haven’t had that issue (yet)!

[@nikbull1258]

Kia Ora from across the ditch. I’m loving this series. In fact I love everything you do. Congratulations on your fast growing subscriber list. You deserve it.

[@thevintageread]

Thanks! Kia Ora to you too! 😊

[@avissmith8384]

The book is really good Shauna, enjoying it emensley. Boy, they tried so hard to marry Charles off. Seems Charles enjoyed his early years.❤😊

[@DeedraBoyer]

It’s 7:30 am in Orlando (Florida) and you’re joining me and a cup of coffee😊

[@katesinclair2645]

Such a great book. Can't wait for next Friday. Have a great weekend.

[@clarefry2611]

Just love this book Shauna.

[@allegro1234]

Good morning, sip from Philly!

[@thevintageread]

Sip 😊🙌

[@RosieES8288]

On catch up now Shauna. Watched the Kings arrival yay.

[@realmms]

Happy Friday Shuana !

[@thevintageread]

Same to you!

[@sylviadurham4918]

I am very much enjoying reading this book with you!! Thank you 💙🩵💙

[@thevintageread]

You're welcome! 🥰

[@janbaldwin1189]

Really like listening to you reading and discussing books. Your reading voice is dramatic, humourous, smooth, nicely paced at just the right times. Thank you, Shauna. Just a delightful experience for me.😊

[@Susanmuir2]

Love listening to you reading Shauna. The book is fascinating, bringing history from behind the scenes out into the open. It is bitter sweet hearing about Lady Diana, she'll always be a young woman to me. Thank you.

[@heatherleutscherwarren9459]

Love your reading of this book! Perhaps you could let us know how the King & Queen are being received in your country (and any gossip !!!). Can’t wait for the next chapter ❤ 🇬🇧

[@susemr2]

Sip! Slurp! 😂😂 I live yiur video's Shauna ❤❤❤❤

[@thevintageread]

Yay! Thank you!

[@susemr2]

@thevintageread oops! Sorry about the spelling! I have Essential tremors 😕 although they're not essential to me! Whoever called them that must have been on drugs! 😂😂😂

[@hollyg3372]

Good morning from Lexington, KY, USA

[@thevintageread]

Good morning!

[@patti9339]

Good Morning, Shauna! 📚

[@thevintageread]

Good Morning!📚

[@isabelwright8910]

I'm loving this book too ,a great insight to what the real rf is like ❤thanks Shauna ❤

[@Wildflowers516]

Thank you Shauna! It’s your channel and you needn’t explain the premier😊 With ❤ NY

[@thevintageread]

You're right, but sometimes it's helpful to put it out there! 😉

[@Wildflowers516]

@@thevintageread true 😊

[@SharonSeaver]

Good morning, Shauna😊❤

[@thevintageread]

Morning Sharon 😊💕

[@kravenscroft4133]

I had a rough night and lay in bed after the normal time I get up and really enjoyed the stories of all the girls we saw linked to the then Prince Charles in the headlines. It really clarified a lot of the gossip and rumors.

[@charmainerichter6954]

Love the book, Shauna.

[@bettysshowtime7400]

Loving this book ! Thanks Shauna, hope you find more like it!😊

[@PCAGA2298]

Hello Shauna, I am really enjoying this book ❤🇺🇸

[@thevintageread]

Thanks! 📚

[@WendyDonaldson-ld1jg]

I love this book!!!! You do a great job of reading it with excitement. Such fun👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@dianelee2318]

This book is marvelous!

[@LisKofod]

Good afternoon 😊 Im SO UPSET about the Welcome of the KING AND QUEEN, what an embarrassing situation. Shame on you 😢

[@thevintageread]

I thought it was a lovely welcome? Everybody looked happy? The official big welcome is yet to come.

[@RosieES8288]

The montage on the opera house was lovely. The state premiers are a disgrace. But the welcome given the rain and time of night and the king's health was good

[@JFra127]

The story spun in the media has a narrative that doesn’t match what’s happening on the ground. Let’s just say Shame on the current batch of politicians. Don’t lump us all in with them.

[@agnescassar7604]

Loved it ,thank you Shauna.❤❤🎉🎉

[@thevintageread]

You're welcome! 💕

[@christinet5419]

Sorry to be boring, but I loved it. Whst more can I say?!?

[@annbannister1118]

I feel charles was made to marry Diana , just for heirs ,so I don't think he should get the stick he got ,he always wanted to marry camilla ,it was a shame all round but that's The Royal family for you ,Charles was to be king so he had to have children ,to carry on the name ,it was a shame for both him and Diana 😢 but at least we got the wonderful William ,so that's a blessing x

[@NakaidaBeauzec]

All the Queens doing she loved interfering in other people's lives.

[@mezzamuddle]

​@NakaidaBeauzec That's not true actually

[@barbraluce5706]

​@@mezzamuddle, apparently Camilla really wanted to marry Andrew Parker Bowles. Where did the rumor start that Charles wanted to marry Camilla in the 1970s???

[@JaneMcGarry-q6e]

Loved this episode so much! Thanks

[@justsayin8893]

Thank you! I very much appriciate your opinion regarding the alleged emotional attachment Charles had with Camilla after his wedding to Diana, at barely 20 it would of course be bothersome at best for a young and in love bride. Again, thank you... Cheers from the US!

[@Christa767]

Love to hear such a beautiful piece of history and to know they did love each other in the beginning and the ppl also did love her. Can't wait to do my Andrew shopping next year 😂❤. Our bookshop did say it best for me to wait for his new book and then they will order it all together for me. Don't wanna ask my brother-in-law any more. He lives in England but never wants me to give the money back so now I don't ask him. Some books are really hard to get here.

[@Jeanne40100]

I so enjoy these readings

[@suemcdermott2947]

Hello from Hereford UK

[@stacylamb5607]

You read aloud so beautifully

[@yorkshiregal]

Thank you Shauna another great reading, it’s a great book👏👏

[@suzannewager518]

Hi Shauna Apparently King George V was the first member of this branch of the royal family who did not speak English with a German accent 🙂

[@karenward267]

I love your reading of this book.

[@PattyfmPhilly]

Thanks, so much, Shauna! I am really enjoying this one! (I think I’ve said that for every book you’ve featured!) Tangent ~ I’m sure you’ve read all of Jane Austen but have you read Georgette Heyer? As a fellow book lover, I’m going to assume you have. Don’t you think, her books would make lovely tv movies? I began reading her books in the early 70’s. Once Austen’s works we’re made into movies, I thought for sure Heyer’s would be as well. OH ~ How’s your ankle? You did this video from your “Gossip” chair. Are you still in a cast? Thanks, again, Shauna. 🖖😁💙

[@thevintageread]

Still in a moonboot! 😊

[@alysoncaddick6344]

Such a lovely memoir. I remember how excited we all were when the engagement was announced and the glorious day of the wedding. Our daughter was only just over a year old and slept all the way through, so we could hog the TV without interruption. I also recall the fireworks the evening before and how nearly every house had decorated their windows with posters and gardens with flags. So sad, the way the fairytale ended.

[@christinet5419]

Yes to everything you said here. My son was also a year old - 1980 baby. He slept all the time anyway (at one point I was worried) (and he still does whenever he can at 44) so I could watch, record (on VHS) and watch again. Sigh. It was so dreamy in all ways.

[@carolynscheick1471]

Great book❤

[@islandgypsy1096]

❤ thank you!

[@peggycarlyle6409]

Excellent story!

[@NancyDVI]

Another great episode! Thanks! ❤

[@juliannek3134]

Fantastic book. Thank you!

[@sarahsimpson8770]

Just lovely Shauna.😊

[@timmythecat7478]

Marvelous read😊🩷👍 With regard to Princess Diana however….. THE FIRST RULE of any game is to know you are in one!!! Someone probably should have mentioned this to Diana😢

[@dianawhyte4631]

The story about Lady Tryon being dumped is interesting because I don't recall anything much being said about her in Andrew Morton's book...and if Camilla was such a threat in the beginning, why didn't she receive the same treatment....

[@juliethompson3470]

I love your reads. Thank you ❤

[@Sassie1]

It's nice to know that Charles was trying to commit to the marriage to Di. Unfortunately Di wasn't a good "fit" into his life style tho she pretended to be before the engagement & wedding. ie: he loved the country life, she preferred city life. Could this be why Kanga or any of the other woman Charles had a friendship with previously was pushed to the side by Di after they married? For his part, it seems Charles may have tried his best to appease Di in this as a way to help assure her of his commitment knowing how it would take Di time to adjust to royal life.

[@hensmom6473]

They were too different and too far in age for each other. Charles was seeing Camilla behind Diana's back. He was not honest with Diana from the start.

[@daphnegeorge7481]

Shauna, unassuming people did not shop in Bond Street!

[@rebeccaarnold-sauer6278]

When you’re newly married some people will bow down to an insecurity that another partner may feel by ending old friendships instead of giving security/love to within that relationship .

[@jackiegould1569]

This is a great book.

[@roxorange6022]

Charles was quite the good red blooded male! Perhaps the proposal to Lady Di was made not on ones knees but another more reclined position? Charles did reply "neither" 😂😂😂

[@aliceobrien8390]

It was never a love match 😂and she played it for everything it was worth .she had more men then he had wemon, and he loved camilla all he's adult life, she wnt with so many not so nice people in the end, she went for a totel bad boy. And unfortunately it got her killed

[@jacquelinearcher1158]

Diana was reported to have hated Balmoral…but went twice to see him there..staying with the Queen Mum…now wouldn’t this warn you this wasn’t the man and life for you? Did she think she would change him that much ?

[@chrish2277]

The bit being left out is that Anna was jealous because the Prince was canoodling with Camilla at these dances and ignoring her! Her comment was ‘you don’t get to do that to me, even if you are the Prince’. Diana also based her engagement ring off Anna’s only bigger. According to my research. She could tolerate a mistress just not the public humiliation. Her nickname was Whiplash Wallace as she had a temper apparently.

[@tzok09]

Yes, it was an emotional affair.

[@fwgre9654]

So, the then Prince Charles, was the OG of ghosting. If only Diana was honest about her dislike of the countryside and royals' hobbies.

[@jeannemara1600]

I am Diana's age, and I must admit, when it came out that Charles had an affair, and Diana was crushed, I thought to myself, "Well, isn't it a 'thing' with the royal family, that the men are a bit, um...over-amorous? Even I know that!" (I am American) Surely, she realized! But, over the years, my thoughts about that have changed. Maturing, and seeing the broken-hearted-ness of a love gone wrong, I can see how one might think, "This is different, it won't happen to me," especially if one is as young as Diana was. I do see that this was not a good match. I also see that Charles was older than she, and certainly more experienced in the "relationship" game. I do place more of the blame on him than her. They are, however, both human beings with their own flaws and attributes. I married a man twenty-two years my senior, and we are still married thirty-six years later. But I was twenty-seven and had been around the block more than I should have, and so I was much more mature and "worldly" than Diana, and certainly than I had been at Diana's age when she married Charles. I also had solid parents to whom I could turn with problems, as well as one or two older women who had good marriages and to whom I could turn. But Diana hadn't that. So, I am much more inclined to take a softer look at her than it seems many do. BTW, my husband always felt sorry for her.

[@lynnewilliams6662]

❤️❤️❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@Diamondmine212]

Charles NEVER LOVED DIANA. I watched the engagement interview and it screamed ‘ Diana get out of there ,run’. When he was asked if he ‘ loved her’, he ( with a sour face) SHRUGGED HIS SHOULDERS and said ‘ whatever love is’😱😱. He was 31, with an established married mistress, Diana a 20 yr old virgin, if only Diana had been older and like Charles experienced ,hopefully after he said that she would have stood up, taken off the ring, thrown it at him and walked away. It was doomed from the start.

[@IleenKohn]

I had no idea that Prince Charles was actually in love with Diana; when he said "whatever love means" one doubted he was truly in love. But it sure sounds as thought he was as excited at getting married to Diana as we all became to be. What a tragedy that it was meant to last. If she had played her cards right, she would have been a grandmother today, as well as the queen. I guess there are no co-incidences. Fate played her hand.

[@allisonanderson5224]

❤❤❤

[@hensmom6473]

Very interesting and a good read. I personally never thought big 👂👂Charles was handsome. He should have stood up to for himself and married Camilla to start with....

[@suemcdermott2947]

Wow so much intrigue, it must be really hard to be normal

[@cecilesteyn4723]

Am I being cynical when I doubt if marriage to any of those girls would have lasted? I wonder if he would have loved any of them more than Camilla.... He and Camilla were already involved when he married Diana. Breaks one's heart. It started so beautifully but I don't think he was in love. He was very taken with Diana but could not say that they were in love when asked at their engagement. 😢

[@AnnaMarieKenward]

They weren't. Both were married to other people but had a very close friendship. Diana started having affairs after William was born. Way long before Camilla was divorced and Charles renewed their friendship.

[@GinaSeay-kn7xr]

I don't think Charles would answer that question in the affirmative even if it was asked about him and Camilla. He wasn't brought up to emote all over the place in front of strangers and cameras. Not on a personal matter like that.

[@deborrahdutra5599]

❤❤❤❤❤❤😊

[@maureenball6733]

Someone like Princess Grace would have been an ideal mate. She put up with a lot of junk.

[@marywest2896]

glad I had insomnia again, was able to catch you as soon as you uploaded....I am glad that their marriage started out with both of them if not in deep love were at least infatuated with each other....although I believe if Charles had completely broken away from Camilla, a lot of Diana's behavior that drove a wedge between them would not have happened....I feel she was reacting to Charles and Camilla's close emotional behavior with each other, man who calls a woman "friend" on their honeymoon??!! or receives or give presents just before marriage that were so intimate?!! Diana reacted like any 19 year old girl would have....and Charles being emotionally stunted himself, just couldn't handle the admiration of the public for Diana....he should have reacted like Jack Kennedy did with Jackie in France, just be proud his choice of a wife was so popular, but no he felt somehow diminished....at least I think that after listening to his interview or hers as well....all boils down to 2 people who were distant with their mothers as a young child and grew up wanting love and support, both were unable to deal with the emotional needs of the new relationship, the public and the expectations of the "job"......I had such hopes for the two, but it wasn't the storybook ever after, but really does it exist? any marriage has it's ups and downs, they just aren't on public display, and oh my God how horrible it would be that every facial expression could be misconstrued....at least the marriage produced on amazing man who will be, God willing, King....the other, well can't always bat 100....

[@ginac895]

I don't believe Charles was ever faithful to Diana.

[@valerieforbes8096]

My uncle was farm manager to the Hesketh at Easton Neston. So I saw the ‘boys’ occasionally. I wasn’t impressed l.

[@AnnaMarieKenward]

I worked as a nanny for the Lucas' Hesketh Racings chief engineer. I met Lord Hesketh while with them. He was very nice.

[@DarkSkies72]

That’s funny because Diana pretended to love the country life when she actually hated it, they were so incompatible. She was false advertising in a big way that truly ended up costing her everything and that part isn’t funny.

[@junesweet2159]

In other words, Charles was not a gentleman because he didn't collect his girlfriends, and he was boring because the relationships drifted off. Very boring.

[@bettyhunder6146]

Enjoy reading but could you not have waited a week or 2.

[@GinaSeay-kn7xr]

You could wait a week or two before viewing it. I'm pleased to have something to watch now.

[@Katherine-cf7rj]

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