April 17, 2022
Queen Elizabeth is said to regarded the late Princess Diana as a direct ‘threat to the monarchy’, and wanted Prince Charles and her to divorce as quickly as possible to minimise the fall out from their explosive pairing.
In a 1995 report published in UK newspaper The Spokesman Review, royal analysts claimed that the Queen had sent letters to both Prince Charles and Diana, urging them to end their marriage at a time when they had already been separated for three years.
The report also said that the Queen and then-Prime Minister John Major had “grown increasingly alarmed by the scope and nature of Princess Diana’s challenge to the royal status quo.”
“The whole official establishment has rallied around the throne. The enemy is Diana,” Felicia Smythson, a writer on royal matters had said.
She also claimed that the Queen’s intervention to end Charles and Diana’s marriage was to ‘lessen’ Diana’s influence.
“They think an ex-princess of Wales will lose importance and attract less public interest, but they could be wrong,” Smythson had said.