Wasting Away
The stress of the wedding was almost too much for Princess Diana to bear! She seemed stressed and it showed. She lost quite a few pounds before her big day. It caused issues with the fitting of her dress. She actually had 15 lengthy fittings to get Diana’s dress to fit properly. “Every time she turned up for a fitting, she had lost more weight,” noted Elizabeth Emmanuel in an interview. “We put it down to nerves. But it did make it incredibly difficult for us to get on with making the dress.” The morning of the wedding she was actually sewed into the dress.
Early Troubles
Charles also had some nerves. According to Sally Beddel Smith (royal biographer) in her book about Prince Charles, she stated he was still hopelessly in love with his ex, Camilla Parker-Bowers. He was pressured by his father to cut ties with her and wed Diana. Smith claims the Prince actually cried the night before he married Diana. Charles very publicly rekindled his affair with Camilla after Prince William and Harry were born.