Princess Diana was left distraught and furious by her mother’s tears during her wedding to Prince Charles in July 1981 – a moment those closest to the tragic royal have now described as emblematic of a lifelong fracture between mother and daughter.
Diana Spencer married Charles at St Paul’s Cathedral on July 29, 1981, in a ceremony watched by hundreds of millions worldwide.
But behind the spectacle, her relationship with her mother, Frances Shand Kydd, remained deeply strained.
The tension dated back to 1967, when Shand Kydd left Diana’s father, John Spencer, when Diana was six.