A former royal staff member has revealed what happened when the late Princess Diana confronted Camilla over her affair with Charles, and exactly how Camilla replied

When King Charles and Queen Camilla were crowned at Westminster Abbey together, it marked the beginning of a new era for the British monarchy, but it was a day many people never believed would come. Charles and Camilla’s affair during the now-King’s first marriage was one of the biggest royal scandals of the last century, and for many years impacted Camilla’s popularity significantly.

The pair had first been romantically involved before Charles’s first marriage to the late Princess Diana, but they broke things off. Camilla married Andrew Parker Bowles and had two children, Tom and Laura, and Charles married then-Diana Spencer in a lavish royal wedding at St. Paul’s Cathedral.

However, Charles and Camilla eventually rekindled things, and – Diana claimed when she was alive – from the early days of his relationship with his first wife, were still involved with one another. From buying Camilla lavish gifts to using special nicknames for each other, Diana expressed during her lifetime how much pain this affair caused her, and went on to infamously say in an interview with BBC’s Panorama, that “there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”

Whilst Diana was much younger than both Charles and Camilla and admitted to struggling with mental health problems during her marriage, she still stood up for herself and her marriage, a former royal protection officer has claimed – and Diana reportedly called it the “bravest moment” in her marriage later.