Although the overdue Princess Diana was set to wed Prince Charles in 1981, she was once already serious about his bond with Duchess Camilla, royal commentator, Julie Montagu solely claimed Us Weekly.

“I think the fixation was always there behind her mind, however after all, I suspect it in reality began on the wedding day itself,” Montagu shared with Us on Tuesday, October 12 while selling her appearance in CNN’s Diana sequence. “The fixation began on the wedding day as a result of we all know that Diana regarded out at the monumental congregation with 1000's of folks. … And she noticed [Camilla], she seemed for her and in a single sense, it used to be looking at her pronouncing, ‘Right, he’s mine. I’ve got him.'”

Montagu defined that for Diana, looking for Camilla, 74, within the crowd was a power move ahead of her nuptials with Charles, 72.

“She sought after to make certain that she clocked Camilla in that congregation so that she may really feel comforted via the fact that she’s at the vicar and Camilla’s in a pew,” she added.

The late Princess of Wales tied the knot to the Prince of Wales in 1981. They separated in 1992 after countless rumors of marital issues, and their divorce was once announced 4 years later.

According to Montagu, who has a YouTube collection titled American Viscountess, right through which she visits some of Britain’s most spectacular properties, Camilla had a continuing presence in Diana’s life throughout the philanthropist’s marriage.

“Camilla was at all times in that circle on the same parties from the very, very beginning of their marriage till obviously until the dying of their marriage,” she famous. “So she used to be at all times there.”

In 1997, three hundred and sixty five days after her divorce from Charles, Diana died at age 36 in a automobile crash. She left at the back of her sons, Prince William and Prince Harry, whom she shared with her ex-husband.

Seven years after Diana’s tragic passing, Charles and Camilla announced their plans to wed. At the time, there was speculation that the couple had extramarital affairs all through Charles’ marriage to Diana and Camilla’s courting together with her husband, Andrew Parker Bowles.

Montagu believes that Diana was once “absolutely devastated” when she learned that Charles and Camilla started seeing each other after her separation from her husband at the time.

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“She has put her whole life into this marriage, and she’s additionally given up her entire lifestyles for this marriage. She has given up so much, she has completed what she has been requested to do, and then to find out that this affair has been going on for years in the back of her again would were completely heartbreaking, devastating, and traumatizing,” Montagu detailed. “I’m certain it would had been devastating for her, but possibly now not reasonably as onerous hitting into the heart as realizing that it used to be Camilla.”

Diana, the six-part sequence, airs on CNN Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.

With reporting by way of Christina Garibaldi

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