Princess Diana and Prince Charles married in their spectacular 1981 royal wedding. However, the parents of Prince William and Prince Harry would face a rocky relationship, which began to sour quickly after the start of their marriage. Royal biographer Penny Junor, in her 2005 book “The Firm”, reports how Charles made several concessions to try to appease the desperately unhappy Diana, even including getting rid of his beloved dog.

Ms Junor writes: “He had cut out of his life the friends she disliked or of whom she was suspicious; good, loyal friends, some of them friends since childhood – and, in typical style, he took the easy way out and did it without telling them. 

“They were left to wonder what had happened when phone calls, letters and invitations to Highgrove and Balmoral simply stopped.

“He even gave away his faithful old labrador Harvey because Diana thought he was smelly.”

She adds: “None of this seemed to make any difference; and when she burst into tears or launched into a tantrum, nothing he could say seemed to calm her.”

Royal author Sally Bedell Smith also backs up the Labrador story.

She claims: “Diana taunted him by saying, ‘You’ll never be King,’ and banished many of his old friends – including the Romseys, the Palmer-Tomkinsons and the Tory MP Nicholas Soames. 

“Resenting anything associated with Charles’s previous life, she also insisted on getting rid of Harvey, his yellow labrador, who was sent to live with one of the Prince’s advisers.”

Ms Bedell Smith continues: “As she grew increasingly assertive, she pushed out employees who displeased her.

“Just three-and-a-half years after their wedding, some 40 of their original staff had left. 

“To avoid further confrontations, Charles let her have her way.”

She adds: “In April 1986, the couple started taking separate holidays. 

“After five mostly unhappy years, Charles had given up. 

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“He genuinely believed that he had, as a member of his staff put it, ‘turned himself inside out’ for her, but her needs were inexhaustible.”

Ms Junor also writes how the Prince of Wales “gave up” on salvaging the marriage.

She writes: “He gave up.

“When she made dramatic gestures he walked away, when she self-harmed he walked away.

“Not because he didn’t care but because he couldn’t help.

“He felt desperate, hopeless and guilty, and to this day he feels a terrible sense of failure for not having been able to make his marriage work.”

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