‘She’s always there’ Diana still ‘haunts’ Royal Family as Camilla title under question
A royal biographer has urged the public to “move on” from the past, as a number of people still “revere” the late Princess Diana, who tragically died in a car accident in 1997. Due to her history with Prince Charles, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall has struggled to build her popularity, and her future title as potential Queen Consort remains in doubt. Speaking to Express.co.uk, Ian Lloyd claimed it was like “the first wife haunting the second” as Diana still remains a popular figure in modern-day society.
Ahead of their wedding in 2005, Clarence House issued a statement to say that Camilla would be known as the Princess Consort when her husband became king, however, this has since been removed from the couple’s official website.
Mr Lloyd, who has written several biographies of the Royal Family, told the Express.co.uk: “Why they’re holding back, of course, is there’s still a feeling about Diana, and of course next year is 25 years since the death of Diana and she’s always there.
“It’s a bit like the first wife haunting the second, there’s a certain pocket of society that still reveres Diana.
“But time goes on and there’s younger people now who don’t really know the impact Diana had because you’ve got to be 30 or more to remember a time when Diana was around and the fact that every day she was on the front of the papers.
“I think it’s mainly older people that very much remember Diana and revere what she did and so on.
“It’s unfortunate I think for Camilla that there is this past history with Charles, people automatically think of Charles and think of Diana and the failed marriage, rather than what he’s done that is valuable. We can’t be obsessed with the past and I do think we have to move on.”
In recent years, a number of portrayals of Diana have been televised, including the popular Netflix series The Crown and the new movie Spencer, starring Kristen Stewart as the late princess.
