Prince Charles Had Doubts About His Marriage to Diana, New Biography Reveals

A new biography about Prince Charles, titled “Charles, Heart of a King,” written by Catherine Mayer, has revealed that the Prince of Wales had doubts about his marriage to Princess Diana on the eve of their wedding.

According to the book, the prince told an aide, “I can't go through with it.”

Both the prince and his bride-to-be had thoughts of calling off the wedding because they knew that their relationship was deeply flawed.

Lady Diana Spencer, who was engaged to the prince for five months after a brief courtship, knew that the prince held a candle for Camilla Parker Bowles.

On the other hand, the prince panicked that he was rushing into marriage with a girl he hardly knew.

Furthermore, the future princess was not the jolly country girl he had assumed, but instead, a vulnerable, complicated woman already suffering from an eating disorder.

The book quotes a member of the prince's inner circle as saying that he was desperate on the eve of the wedding in 1981.

He is said to have told his confidant, “I can't go through with it, I can't do it.”

The same friend is quoted as saying that if it had been a Catholic marriage, it could have been declared null because he wasn't really committed, and Lady Diana had started with bulimia and everything before the wedding.

Lady Diana found a bracelet intended for Camilla Parker Bowles that had the letters G.F. engraved on it.

She believed they stood for Gladys and Fred, the pet names the prince and Mrs. Parker Bowles had given each other.

However, an alternative suggestion was that they stood for Girl Friday, another nickname the prince had given her.

Lady Diana later told her own biographer Andrew Morton that she confided in her sisters, telling them, “I can't marry him, I can't do this, this is absolutely unbelievable.”

They told her it was too late to pull out because her face was already on the tea towels.

A mutual friend of the prince and the Duchess of Cornwall debunks the myth that they met at a polo match.

Instead, the book reveals that she introduced the two over a drink at her flat in 1971, certain that they would make a good match.

The biography has already caused controversy over its depictions of the prince's court as a modern-day wolf-hole riven with backstabbing and rivalry.

Clarence House responded to the book by claiming Mayer overstated the exclusive access she was given to the prince, which amounted to a nine-minute conversation, according to an aide.

Mayer hit back, telling the BBC, “I had some help from Clarence House to not only attend events that press could accredit for but also to talk to members of his inner circle and his friends.”

The book also contains fresh evidence about the extent to which the Prince of Wales trusted Jimmy Savile, later unmasked as one of the worst the country has ever known, even asking him to read his speeches for him to give him his thoughts.

Yesterday Mayer hit back.