Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer met their future bride in the 1970s when they were still teenagers. The prince was dating Sarah Spencer’s older sister.Insider. The prince was dating Diana’s sister as an attempt to move on from his ex-girlfriend (and now-wife) Camilla Parker Bowles, whom he’d been seeing for multiple years prior to being introduced to Diana. Their relationship ended quickly. TimeWoman’s Own reported that Sarah once said to Woman’s Own that she could not see a future together with Prince Charles. “wouldn’t marry anyone I didn’t love whether he were the dustman or the King of England,”Charles was once more made a princely bachelor.
Prince Charles has Discussed the first time they met Princess DianaWhen she was only 16 years of age in 1977, we remember the future People’s Prince as “very jolly and amusing and attractive” — but the initial reaction wasn’t reciprocated.
Princess Diana I was reminded of the princeIt was a “sad man”Being “so unimpressed”The times she met him as a teenager. It wasn’t until nearly two years after Prince Charles’ relationship with Princess Diana’s older sister had swiftly come to an end that the pair reconnected in light of a tragic event and began their legendary romance.