There was nothing ordinary about the relationship between Prince Charles and Princess Diana, including the way they met. When Charles was introduced to the future Princess of Wales in 1977, he was dating her older sister, Sarah. “My sister was all over him like a bad rash and I thought: ‘God, he must really hate that,'” Diana recalled about meeting the prince for the first time at her family’s home in Northamptonshire, per Newsweek.
As for Charles, he was impressed with 16 year old Diana’s “very jolly and amusing and attractive” demeanor. “I mean, great fun, and bouncy and full of life and everything,” Charles said of his first impression of the princess, during their engagement interview in 1981.
Following heartbreak on the prince’s end in 1980 — he had just broken up with a girlfriend and a good friend of his had died — Diana and Charles started their romantic journey together. The young Diana recalled in the documentary “Diana: In Her Own Words” that she wanted to see the heir to the throne, simply to make sure he was alright amid personal loss.
“We were talking about Mountbatten and his girlfriend and I said, ‘You must be so lonely,'” Diana confessed of their early days together. “I said, ‘It’s pathetic watching you walking up the aisle with Mountbatten’s coffin in front, ghastly, you need someone beside you.’ Whereupon he leapt upon me and started kissing me.”
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