EXCLUSIVE: The Moment Princess Diana Decided Her Marriage to Charles Was Over Revealed
Sept. 24 2026, Published 7:55 p.m. ET
Princess Diana told her brother over lunch she was going to divorce then-Prince Charles – marking the moment she believed her troubled royal marriage was finally beyond saving, RadarOnline.com can reveal.
Charles Spencer, 62, recalls the extraordinary conversation in his memoir Swan Song, revealing Diana made the declaration while they were eating at her favorite London restaurant.
'I'm Going To Get Divorced'
Diana, who died aged 36 in 1997, made a startling claim about her husband's relationship with an unnamed member of staff, although Spencer says he never investigated what she meant or why she believed it.
A source familiar with Diana's stormy marriage to Charles claimed to Radar: "For Diana, this was the moment when the marriage was over in her own mind. Whatever hopes she had once possessed of somehow repairing things with Charles had effectively disappeared.
"What stands out is how matter-of-factly she apparently told her brother she was getting divorced. By then she had endured years of unhappiness, public scrutiny and the knowledge that Charles' rela...