Whatever "In Love" Means

Born to Rule: When Charles is King

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🗓️ 6 June 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In 1981, the world watched as Prince Charles married the perfect royal bride: Lady Diana Spencer. Young, beautiful, and stylish, Diana breathed new life into the monarchy. But the fairytale didn’t last long. In the years that followed, Diana and Charles’s troubled marriage and bitter divorce was a constant in the tabloids, and Diana’s death in a car accident in 1997 shook the world. And through it all, Charles gained a reputation as an unfaithful husband to the “people’s princess” as he carried on an affair with friend Camilla Parker Bowles. But today, Camilla — once known as the notorious “other woman” — is poised to become Queen Consort when Charles takes the throne. It’s a reflection of the changes the monarchy has undergone in the aftermath of the Charles and Diana saga… and the fulfillment of Prince Charles’s decades-long quest to have the love of his life accepted by the royal establishment and the British public. This episode of Born to Rule was recorded before King Charles became King. Through our series, you get to hear in real time what we are thinking as events unfold -- extraordinary Royal events that have both uplifted the Royal family and rocked it to the core.

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0:00.0	The arrival of Prince Charles at St. Paul's Cathedral, they got him to the church on time.
0:27.4	So bright summer day in 1981.
0:30.4	You will be hearing trumpet voluntary by Jeremiah Clark as Lady Diana Spencer makes her way
0:38.2	down the aisle to join her husband to be in just a few moments and some whales.
0:44.2	Cameras catch Diana's shy glance at her future husband.
0:47.8	She's only 20 years old and there's something about her that's just so captivating.
0:54.0	She breathes fresh life into the monarchy and seemingly it's 31-year-old success.
0:59.6	This young woman has become one of the best known figures of our time.
1:04.6	During their very public courtship, it would seem the future king found his future queen.
1:10.4	There was a kind of auditioning for this job as Tina Brown pointed out at one point and decided
1:15.4	that she was right for the job and then slowly probably began to fall in love with her as well.
1:20.5	I think it did rather happen in that order.
1:22.6	I think her qualifications were wonderful and then she seemed to get more glamorous before
1:26.8	his eyes. And now after much ado, the moment the entire world's been waiting for is finally upon them.
1:39.7	Here comes the bride.
1:53.4	We are gathered here in the sight of God and in the face of this congregation.
2:04.3	To join together this man and this woman in holy matrimony.
2:11.4	Let's be honest, we all know how this love story ends.
2:15.7	I Charles Philip Arthur George take the Dianna Francis.
2:20.5	It's one of the most famous ill-fated marriages of modern times.
2:24.8	To my wedding wife, I die in a process, take the...
2:29.0	It dramatically changed the royal family, hugely harmed Charles's reputation and left him the first
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