Prince Charles Had A Fling With Diana’s Sister – But Then She Blew It In An Interview

Ever since 2005, Prince Charles has been happily married to Camilla Parker Bowles. However, the prince’s love life has sometimes been complicated, and before he met Diana there was someone else in the picture. This was none other than her sister, Lady Sarah. And perhaps she could have cemented a position by Charles’ side; that is, until she started talking to some journalists.

Royal Connections

Lady Sarah – or, to use her full name, Lady Elizabeth Sarah Lavinia McCorquodale – grew up alongside the royal family just like her sister Diana. She was a friend of Charles’ younger brothers Edward and Andrew. It was apparently the latter who first introduced the young woman to Charles back in 1977, and he’d taken an interest.

A Match, In Theory...

On paper, Charles and Sarah might have seemed like a good match. They were reasonably close in age – contrary to Charles and Diana, who had a 12-year age difference between them. And Sarah was of course a member of the Spencer family, which dates back to the 15th century and contains many highly thought-of aristocrats.

Familial Problems

But the Spencer family had their problems – despite their wealth and prestige. In echoes of what was to come later for Diana, the Spencer parents had a very troubled marriage. Worse still, they had lost a child. Frances and John welcomed five children in all, but the baby born ahead of Diana had passed away only ten hours after being born.

Scary Memories

In tapes Diana recorded for journalist Andrew Morton in 1991, she claimed that her father John had turned on her mother Frances. She said, “I remember seeing my father slap my mother across the face. I was hiding behind the door, and mommy was crying. I remember mommy crying an awful lot.”