The Backstory: Charles, Camilla, and Diana: Proving your virginity
Elvis Duran and the Morning Show ON DEMAND
Elvis Duran Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
What’s the real story behind the love affair and long delayed marriage between King Charles and Queen Camilla? Their love affair predated his marriage to Princess Diana by almost 20 years. But British rules about virginity caused one of the biggest scandals in history. This is how it all came down.
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| 0:00.0 | We sure hear a whole lot about the British royal family, their romances and marriages, |
| 0:04.7 | but we don't hear so much about King Charles and Queen Camilla back in the old days, |
| 0:10.0 | 50 some years ago when they were kids with a wicked crush. But their relationship was the last |
| 0:15.7 | royal love affair in British history to get the thumbs down because the lady wasn't a virgin. |
| 0:22.8 | I'm Patty Steele. Imagine having to prove to the nation you'd never had a lover if you wanted to get married. |
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| 1:20.8 | backstory a lot of us get really caught up in royal love stories 750 million people around the world got up in the U.S. |
| 1:30.6 | before dawn to watch Prince Charles marry Lady Diana Spencer in 1981. And depending on who you |
| 1:37.5 | believe, the weddings of Prince William and Kate Middleton may have had close to two billion viewers |
| 1:43.2 | while Prince Harry and Megan Markle intrigued |
| 1:45.7 | somewhere close to 1.7 billion of us. But if you were the couple getting married, there were some |
| 1:51.9 | restrictions in the past that don't exist today. It wasn't a rule on the books, but it was highly |
| 1:57.9 | expected that the bride to be would be a virgin. |
| 2:01.6 | In fact, before Diana married Prince Charles in 1981, her family was asked to confirm her virginity. |
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