Mountbatten ‘would have stopped Charles marrying Diana’

The Prince at his wedding to Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in July 1981. The union produced their two sons, William and Harry, but it was not to be a happy one - the pair divorced in 1996. Diana died the following year in a car crash in Paris

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By The Week Staff

published 24 July 2019

Prince Charles and Diana would never have married had Lord Mountbatten not been murdered by the IRA in 1979, according to a royal biographer. Before his death, says Penny Junor, the influential Lord Mountbatten had been keen to promote a match between his granddaughter, Amanda Knatchbull, and Charles.

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