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Pictures taken of the two by press photographers in South Korea and India in 1992 clearly showed the public the dreadful state of their marriage. However, it was Diana’s lone picture outside the Taj Mahal that sealed the deal, and everyone realised the marriage had run its course. In February 1992, the Prince and Princess of Wales went on a royal tour to India and Charles upset Diana by leaving her to see the Taj Mahal on her own while he went to a business meeting in Bangalore.

While she was at the famous mausoleum, she had a photograph taken of her on a bench outside, the very same bench that Charles had been pictured on in 1980.

Her expression and body language told the whole story ‒ that she was not happy in this marriage and this family.

Royal biographer Anthony Holden explained this in the 2013 Amazon Prime documentary ‘Royalty Close Up: The Photography of Kent Gavin’.

He said: “Towards the end, during what we called the War of the Waleses, she certainly knowingly consciously used the press photographers, particularly that famous picture of her alone and looking miserable outside the Taj Mahal.

“It was kind of a postcard home ot the general public to say ‘I’m not happy in this marriage, there are three people.’”

Mr Holden is here referring to a phrase Diana would later use in her interview with BBC Panorama’s Martin Bashir in reference to her husband’s affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.

Broadcaster and journalist Anne Robinson claimed this picture splashed in the press marked the exact moment the public became aware that the marriage had run its course.

She said: “The marriage was completely apart, it was hopeless, it had broken down, it was ‘no speaking’ on a major scale.

“And the minx of Diana went and photographed herself sitting alone on this bench; it really marks the point at which the public became aware she had no deal within that family any longer.”

Later in the trip, Diana showed her fury towards Charles by humiliating him in front of the cameras again.

Royal photographer Kent Gavin described the incredibly awkward situation that he managed to capture on camera when Charles and Diana attended a polo match on Valentine’s Day.

He explained that he asked royal press secretary Dickie Arbiter: “Is there any chance Charles will give Diana a kiss?” to which Mr Arbiter laughed and said: “We’re not going to get anything like that.”

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Mr Gavin told the documentary: “Anyway the message got to Diana and it got to Charles.

“Charles tried to kiss her and she turned her back on him and he’s kissing the back of her neck.

“That set it all off in London again.”

In November 1992, the couple went on their final trip together ‒ to South Korea.

Throughout the tour, they were nicknamed ‘The Glums’ as they were unable to disguise the tension between them.

One picture in particular, in which Diana and Charles are looking off in opposite directions, perfectly captured the feelings of melancholy and isolation they were exhibiting.

Mr Gavin recalled: “The picture that summed up everything about break up was the trip to South Korea.

“They were called The Glums. They were not happy.

“Even when they were standing together, they were looking at each other like that ‒ she was bored, he was bored.

“We ran the picture of the two of them looking in opposite directions. The whole trip was simply not right.”

Just weeks later ‒ on December 9 ‒ the Prince and Princess of Wales officially announced their separation.

That year, 1992, was labelled “annus horribilis” by the Queen due to not only Charles and Diana’s marriage breakdown, but also that of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson and Princess Anne and Mark Phillips, as well as a fire at Windsor Castle.

When it came to Charles and Diana, it was not just the pictures that had put the final nails in the coffin of their marriage.

A revealing biography of the Princess entitled ‘Diana: Her True Story’ had aired plenty of dirty laundry for the royals and a leaked transcript of a telephone call between Charles and Camilla exposed the truth about his affair.

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