Queen Elizabeth<\/a>. The whole debacle turned into a \u201cshowdown\u201d between Charles and Diana, and \u201cFinally, the prince told her bluntly that she would have to come up with an explanation of her own for staying behind.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cAt this, the princess finally relented, saying meekly that, as the Queen had asked her to go, she would, after all, accompany him,\u201d Dimbleby added.<\/p>\n
Though Diana agreed to go, she left her acting chops behind. The couple could not have appeared more miserable on the tour, and Dimbleby described the trip as a \u201cdreadful experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Prince Charles and Princess Diana in Seoul, South Korea<\/p>\n
\u201cThe world was quickly collating a narrative that they believed to be true, namely that \u2018the marriage was a sham and the couple had come to loathe one another\u2019s presence,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Former royal press secretary Dickie Arbiter was there in Seoul for the fateful trip, and \u201cAs the door to the aircraft opened, I turned to the protection officer and said, \u2018We\u2019ve lost this one.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe prince and the princess were the epitome of Mr. and Mrs. Glum\u2014her expression pinched and pale, his rigid and morose,\u201d Arbiter described. \u201cTheir body language was so hostile it was as if they could have killed each other with a single glance. The dark cloud hanging over them would remain throughout the tour.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Princess Diana and Prince Charles on November 3, 1992<\/p>\n
Indeed, the charade was over. When a reporter asked Arbiter if Charles and Diana\u2019s marriage was okay, he replied, \u201cAll marriages have their problems.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an attempt to deflect the question, but he pretty much gave credence to all the rumors that we had spent months trying to quash,\u201d Arbiter said. \u201cIf we hadn\u2019t lost the tour upon arrival, we had undoubtedly lost it now.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Princess Diana and Prince Charles arriving in Seoul<\/p>\n
Dimbleby said Diana was either \u201cunable or unwilling to hide her sorrow from the public,\u201d and photographer Jayne Fincher said that, while the Princess of Wales \u201clooked lovely,\u201d it was obvious that \u201cshe\u2019d been crying her eyes out. She looked awful. My heart went out to her.\u201d<\/p>\n
By the end of the tour, one of Diana\u2019s aides said that, based on her attitude in South Korea, she \u201ccould no longer endure her marriage and wanted to break free, whatever the consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Princess Diana on November 3, 1992<\/p>\n
\u201cThe strain is immense,\u201d Charles wrote in a letter. \u201cAnd yet I want to do my duty in the way I\u2019ve been trained. I don\u2019t know what will happen from now on, but I dread it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The next month, U.K. Prime Minister John Major announced that Charles and Diana had made the decision to separate. Their divorce was finalized on August 28, 1996, just 368 days before Diana lost her life at just 36 years old in a Paris car crash.<\/p>\n
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