In July 1981, the night before his glamorous¹ wedding to Princess Diana, Prince Charles reportedly wept as he was still torn about his feelings for his former girlfriend Camilla Parker-Bowles. 

 

据称，1981年7月，在与戴安娜王妃举行那场世纪婚礼的前夜，查尔斯王子依然挂念前女友卡米拉·帕克·鲍尔斯，为此痛苦不堪，乃至伤心落泪。

 

According to Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes² of an Improbable Life, a new biography of the Prince of Wales by royal writer Sally Bedell Smith, Charles felt pressured into his marriage to Diana -- and he was still torn about his love for the then-married Camilla. 

 

The story of Charles and Camilla is well-documented -- the two dated after being introduced in 1971, beginning a love affair that would make headlines for decades. According to Bedell Smith, Charles liked that Camilla was down-to-earth, loved the countryside and wasn’t interested in fashion. They also shared the same sense of humor and he was drawn³ to the fact that she "always listened." 

 

It seemed natural that Charles would be attracted to upper-class Camilla -- Lady Annabel Goldsmith tells Bedell Smith that Camilla was "an intensely warm maternal⁴ laughing creature, with enormous sex appeal."

 

Despite having an apparently⁵ happy relationship, the two split up when Charles was stationed overseas with the Royal Navy in 1973.

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