This is how Queen Elizabeth II felt after Princess Diana’s bombshell interview

Queen Elizabeth II- Princess Diana: Princess Diana disclosed years of suicide attempts and eating disorders due to the stress of being a royal.

After Princess Diana's controversial interview with the BBC, Queen Elizabeth II felt hopeless and her husband Prince Philip was furious, a royal biographer claimed.

Queen Elizabeth II- Princess Diana: Mugs with photos of late Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Diana, are seen. (AP)

Princess Diana was forthcoming in her interview with the BBC, confessing to feeling “sadness” that her marriage wasn’t working adding that it was partly because of the pressure on them as a royal couple and partly because of her husband’s affair with Camilla Parker Bowles.

Princess Diana also disclosed years of suicide attempts and eating disorders due to the stress of being a royal in a loveless marriage.

“… We will have been separated three years this December, and the perception that has been given of me for the last three years has been very confusing, turbulent, and in some areas, I’m sure many, many people doubt me,” Princess Diana said.

“I want to reassure all those people who have loved me and supported me throughout the last 15 years that I’d never let them down,” she added.

Royal biographer Andrew Morton revealed in his book, ‘The Queen: Her Life’ that Princess Diana’s interview was “shocking” and “unforgivable” to the royal family.

“[The queen] was despairing, her husband apoplectic. Something had to be done, for the sake of not just the monarchy but also their grandchildren," the biographer said.

Andrew Morton claimed that although Queen Elizabeth had “held out the olive branch for so long” but she became “determined to cut the marital Gordian knot.”

The royal biographer said that Queen wrote a letter to Diana saying, “I have consulted with the Archbishop of Canterbury and with the prime minister and, of course, with Charles, and we have decided that the best course for you is divorce.”