While he may have helped her see a different perspective, it might not have been for reasons of true love. Instead, the 8th Earl Spencer, John, told his daughter Diana, “It would be an act of gross discourtesy to break off her engagement to the future King so close to the wedding,” according to author Ingrid Seward. She continues to explain that Diana’s dad bolstered this opinion by pointing out, “She [Diana] couldn’t deny that she still wanted to be the Princess of Wales. And, at 19, she was young enough still to believe in happy endings, despite what her instincts had told her on that terrible night.”
Diana wasn’t the only one having second thoughts. Seward revealed that the late queen, King Charles’s father, also made her hesitancy about the marriage known. “She wondered whether anyone that young could differentiate between the man and the prince,” Seward wrote about the first of Queen Elizabeth II’s two reservations, “And she couldn’t help thinking that the Spencer girl would be far better suited to her younger son, Andrew,” she continued. Even King Charles is rumored to have had a heartbreaking night before his wedding.
Despite relatives of both Charles and Diana — and the betrothed themselves — expressing worries about the pair’s wedding, the couple did end up tying the knot on July 29th, 1981. Diana reportedly inauspiciously went to the altar with a good luck charm, a golden horseshoe, sewn into her dress.
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