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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Kristin Contino

Prince Charles Found One Aspect of Marriage With "Mercurial" Princess Diana "Difficult to Cope With"

Prince Charles and Princess Diana sitting on a fence at Balmoral in 1981 .

When Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer married in 1981, the world saw what they thought was a Disney fairytale come to life. But behind palace walls, their relationship was anything but. From the start, their 12-year age gap caused tension, with Charles—an intellectual man in his thirties—struggling to connect with his 19-year-old bride. According to a former royal journalist, one aspect of Diana's personality took a huge toll on their marriage.

Jane Moore, who stars on Loose Women (think the U.K.'s answer to The View), formerly served as a royal correspondent, and she opened up about the late princess during a recent episode of "Loose Women: The Podcast."

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