Prince Charles wanted to separate from Diana, reveals a new biography

Prince Charles has asked if his marriage with Diana should be canceled, the Daily Mail can reveal it today.

Although he realized that the aristocrat's daughter and he were incompatible, he felt helpless to do anything about it.

Breaking with the engagement "would have been cataclysmic," he said.

And he described himself as being "permanently between the devil and the sea of ​​a deep blue".

Years later and still troubled by the tragedy of the marriage, he cried in frustration, saying to his friends: "I was desperate to leave the marriage in 1981, when at my engagement, I discovered how much the prospects were terrible. "

The story of the anguish of the heir to the throne about the condemned marriage is told in a new explosive royal biography celebrating its 70th birthday next month, reports the Daily Mail.

It reveals how Charles wants to challenge "pernicious lies" about him – which, according to him, were orchestrated by Diana herself.

Veteran Royal correspondent Robert Jobson, the author of the book, has accompanied her for 18 months on tours around the world.

Jobson, who has covered the royal family for nearly three decades, has spoken to many current and former members of his staff – and to Charles himself.

The result is a fascinating book, filled with innovative new material, to be published in the Mail today and next week.

Among the sensational revelations are:

How Charles is already "King of shadows" and the queen could deviate at 95, allowing him to become regent.

• How shocked Charles was with the degree of belligerence of his sons;

• his consternation of being excluded from the 2017 documentary about Princess Diana by boys;

• the collapse of Harry before his marriage with Meghan Markle;

• How Charles "speaks to the dead" including Earl Mountbatten, his mentor murdered by the IRA;

• His disdain for Tony Blair, whom he once called mocking as "our magnificent leader";

• his desperation at the war in Iraq, telling friends that Blair behaved like George Bush's poodle;

• its disagreement with the burka bans introduced by France and other European countries;

• its distrust of American evangelism and the pressure of American corporations;

• its fear that America's chemically-prepared corn is fueling the increasingly serious crisis of obesity and diabetes in this country;

Charles emerges from this powerful portrait as a satisfied character, who is far from bitter but who has a strong opinion about some of the most vital issues we face today.

But it is the revelation of her heartache over Diana who will necessarily raise her eyebrows.

Since Diana has confided to the biographer Andrew Morton, we know that the princess wanted to give up her marriage.

But until now, we did not know that the prince did the same.

This is sometimes a brutal reading while the book highlights Charles' sadness at his inability to cope with what was to become a tragedy.

Jobson says that the prince knew that in a handful of meetings they were ill suited.

He told his friends that in the weeks leading up to the wedding, when he had been trying to explain his daily routine, Diana seemed unable to understand what he was saying.

The more he saw her, the more he realized that he was wrong.

Charles stated that he did not blame anyone – neither his father nor his mother – for his inability to withdraw from the engagement.

Instead, he blamed his own failure to know Diana before.

The princess stated that they had not met more than 12 times before their engagement in February 1981.

According to Jobson, the prince is haunted by the sadness aroused by the marriage sentenced to this day.

But in one respect, grief is commensurate with his fury at the lies spread about him.

He blamed Diana for this, telling a friend "incredible and pernicious lies helped and encouraged by someone close to me [who] lived day to day with the press ".

The most offensive lie that has echoed over the years was the claim that he would have secreted Diana then single on the Royal Train for a gallant date.

The story was false, just like any other, according to which Camilla was allegedly smuggled to Buckingham Palace the night before her marriage to Diana.

Other stories he describes as "lies and fabrications" include claims that buyers searched Camilla for their buns at a store in Chippenham, Wiltshire.

This, he describes as a "persistent lie".

Last night, biographer Penny Junor, who wrote a well received book on Camilla last year, said: "This is the first time [Charles] speak openly about her doubts about Diana's marriage when they were engaged. I certainly did not know that he had shared his fears with his friends. "

Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, said: "This actually rewrites the story of Charles and Diana with a meaningful interpretation that Charles and Diana felt that marriage was doomed from the beginning."