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Diana’s friend reveals shocking details of marriage to Charles: ‘It was…’
Princess Diana: Jemima Khan said that Princess Diana’s marriage to Charles, which took place in 1981, was “essentially arranged.”
Princess Diana's friend Jemima Khan whom Diana visited twice in Pakistan talked about Charles wedding to Diana. Releasing her new film, What’s Love Got to Do With It, Jemima Khan said that Diana's marriage was one of her inspirations for the film, The Mirror reported.
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Jemima Khan said that Princess Diana’s marriage to Charles, which took place in 1981, was “essentially arranged.”
“Their marriage was essentially arranged. It used to happen here, even with our royal family. I know it can often seem like a really alien concept, but most marriages, even in the world today, are arranged, if you look at the global population. It wasn’t so long ago that it was kind of the norm, even in the UK", Jemima Khan said.
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When Charles and Diana became engaged in 1981, he was 32, she was 19, and they had met only a handful of times, she said adding that in her film she has focused on the concept of arranged marriages.
“There’s a real issue where arranged marriage keeps getting conflated with forced marriage. As I get older, I think, if I had parents who could have agreed—and were functional and good at these things—I definitely could have benefited from being introduced to suitable candidates," she said.
