Snapshots in History: July 29: Remembering Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer’s Wedding

On July 29 and beyond, take a moment to remember the British royal wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, to Lady Diana Spencer on July 29, 1981 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, England. The wedding had a global television audience of some 750 million people. Unfortunately, the aura of the fairy tale wedding did not last, and although the couple produced two children, Prince William and Prince Harry, Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, separated in 1992 and divorced on August 28, 1996. Just over a year later on August 31, 1997, Diana died in a car crash in Paris, France. The public mourning following Diana’s passing was widespread.

Royal watchers were often fascinated by the twists and turns in Charles and Diana’s relationship with admissions of infidelity along the way. People are in a position to make their own judgment of what happened and why within the marriage and relationship of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales.

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