In the summer of 1982, Michael Fagan, an unemployed labor worker in his 30s, broke into Buckingham Palace-not once, but twice. Is one slightly better than the other? You decide.īetter believe it-though it's likely some details were amplified for dramatic effect. However, another royal insider, Penny Junor, claims that although Charles did gift such a bracelet to Camilla, the initials actually stood for Girl Friday, meaning a reliable female assistant, and that Charles sent similar items to other women he'd been close to perviously, as a means of thanking them before embarking on life as a married man. Some say that the letters stood for Gladys and Fred, Camilla and Charles' nicknames for one another, and that Diana then realized her husband-to-be and ex-girlfriend were at the very least having an emotional affair. (The show opts to depict this moment as Diana discovering a drawing of the piece of jewelry rather than the bracelet itself).
According to taped interviews biographer Andrew Morton conducted with the late Princess, Diana was in the office of one of Charles' members of staff when she opened a parcel to find a bracelet engraved with the initials G and F. The note goes on to remind the Prince of the importance of building his destiny with some "sweet and innocent well-tempered girl with no past who knows the rules and will follow the rules," and that this is his duty and "most important task." While we can't know for sure if such a specifically timed or themed letter ever existed, it's not too much of stretch to assume communication on that matter did take place between the two men, since Mountbatten was in frequent contact with his great nephew, offering advice on such things. "The choice of a woman was the issue around which the last Prince of Wales came to grief, and it's astonishing to me that 40 years after the abdication, you are making so little attempt to conceal your infatuation for another man's wife," writes Mountbatten, referencing Charles' ongoing relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles, in a letter in episode. “Trefusis blood was labelled ‘mad blood’ or ‘bad blood’, because the Bowes-Lyon girls, Nerissa and Katherine, had been put in a state asylum and were hardly visited by anyone in the royal family to whom they were related through Queen Elizabeth… no earl or future earl would want to risk their earldom through contaminating it with ‘mad blood’.In the season 4 premiere, right before his death, Lord Louis "Dickie" Mountbatten ( Charles Dance) pens a letter to his great-nephew/honorary great-grandson encouraging him to settle down. “I found out that his father, Jack, Earl Spencer, had told him not to marry me because I had Trefusis blood,” she writes. Lady Anne Glenconner, former lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret, wrote in her autobiography of the stigma it conferred, and revealed it had affected her personally – it scuppered a potential marriage match between herself and one Johnnie Althorp (later, 8 th Earl Spencer, father to Princess Diana).
While deeply troubling and resonant of eugenic theories, the idea that ‘bad blood’ could threaten the integrity of bloodlines, and therefore conventions of inherited power and wealth, was more typical at the time when the sisters were placed in hospital. The Queen Mother Elizabeth (right) and Princess Margaret, 1967. “I only lasted one session,” Margaret told a friend. Princess Margaret had, according to Craig Brown, seen one Dr Peter Dally, a consultant psychiatrist attached to Westminster Hospital in 1966, at the persuasion of Lord Snowdon. Who is Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II?.Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip: 8 milestones in their marriage.Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon: why did their marriage break down?.Who is Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall?.
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