Princess Diana once revealed that King Charles was disappointed when Prince Harry was born because he had hoped for a daughter.
Princess Diana Kept The Gender Of Their Second Child A Secret
The couple already had Prince William, who was born in June 1982, and he was set to be his heir to the throne. When Harry was born, Charles wasn’t shy about making his displeasure known.
Charles’s first comment upon seeing Harry after his birth in September 1984 was said to have been, “Oh, God, it’s a boy,” and he added, “And he’s even got red hair.”
Princess Diana first shared this shocking tidbit with her biographer, Andrew Morton, who wrote the book “Diana: Her True Story,” published in 1992.
“Charles always wanted a girl. He wanted two children, and he wanted a girl,”
The then Princess of Wales admitted.
“I knew Harry was going to be a boy because I saw it on the scan.”
“Charles always wanted a girl,” she explained. His pushing so hard for a daughter prompted Diana to keep the gender of their second child a secret until she could no longer do so. He only found out he had a boy after Harry was born.
Charles allegedly even callously told Diana’s mother, Frances Kydd, at Harry’s christening, “We were so disappointed. We thought it would be a girl.”
Diana’s mother was apparently outraged by the King’s poor attitude and nearly took his head off, exclaiming. “Realize you’re lucky to have a child.” It was understandably offensive for Diana’s parents to hear him speak of their grandchild that way.
Harry Wrote About Charles’s Reaction To His Birth In His Memoir, “Spare”
In Harry’s tell-all memoir, “Spare,” he claimed that he first heard the story when he was 21 years old. Harry wrote, ‘What Pa originally said to Mummy, the day of my birth, “Wonderful! Now you’ve given me an Heir and a Spare, my work is done.” Many people come down on Harry, but this may be part of the reason why he is so deeply troubled.
Outside the hospital, after Harry was born, Charles hid his disappointment from the press. Afterward, he allegedly went to meet up with his “mistress,” Camilla Parker Bowles. According to Diana, Harry’s birth signified the downward spiral of her doomed union with Charles.
Diana divulged that after Harry’s arrival, “Something inside me closed off.” She also knew Charles was in love with Camilla.
Diana secretly gave Morton the information he needed to pen her biography and made audio recordings detailing the horrific details of the couple’s failed marriage.
Even the night before their so-called “storybook wedding,” in July 1981, Charles admitted to Diana that he didn’t love her, which left Diana feeling like she wasn’t good enough. As a result, she developed bulimia.
Diana and Charles divorced in 1996, and it was far from amicable. The Princess has revealed in her infamous Panorama interview that “there were three people” in her marriage.
The most interesting and shocking fact about Andrew Morton’s biography of Princess Diana is that the revelations in the book were so incredibly damaging to the royal family that many bookstores refused to carry it. No one had any idea that Diana was the primary source for the book.
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