Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The video recounts Diana’s account of laughing at a 1981 marriage proposal from Charles, illuminating how their royal engagement began. According to Princess Diana’s remarks to biographer Andrew Morton, King Charles asked her to marry him at Windsor in February 1981 after a brief courtship. Diana, then 19, said she thought it was a joke before realizing he was “deadly serious,” ahead of their July 29, 1981 wedding. She recalled telling him she loved him, to which he replied, “Whatever love means,” and noted a lack of tactile affection. The video also notes her friends’ reactions, her brother Charles Spencer’s surprise, and her selection of the sapphire engagement ring presented in a briefcase.

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