antinoos said:
Also Diana was, shall we say, psychologically complicated. I know very well a colleague of the Surgeon by whom she became obsessed. She was an absolute nightmare apparently and quite extreme measures had to be taken as she used her status to gain access to his place of work etc - you can guess the rest; it wasn't at all like the famous photo of her doe-eyed in scrubs. Although he may well have richly deserved it because at the time he was an arrogant fucked up knob, Charles must have wondered what had hit him after the Gladys and Fred Cufflinks etc. There is the most fabulous footage from the Wedding OB on the day, of an interview with Andrew P-B where he is in the honour guard of the Household Cavalry or somesuch and talking about his female horse being a "good ride" with a "great seat" etc. its like something from Jilly Cooper (only dark dark dark really) I often wonder just who knew what when that was filmed and broadcast......
Diana had an affair with a surgeon, Hasnat Khan, from 1995 to 1997. He finished it because he didn't want the media attention, apparently, and she started the high-profile relationship with Dodi in part to try and make him jealous enough to come back. From what Aunty is saying above, it sounds like she used her position as Princess of Wales to get into the hospital he worked at to go and harrass him.
Charles and Camilla's pet names for each other are Gladys and Fred. A few weeks before Charles married Diana, she supposedly found a bracelet in one of Charles' employee's offices with GF engraved on it and confronted him about it. Charles gave the bracelet to Camilla and took the cufflinks she gave him in return, engraved with two Cs for Charles and Camilla, on his honeymoon.
Andrew Parker-Bowles, Camilla's first husband, was interviewed on the wedding day as he was riding in the procession and made some comments about his horse that could have been interpreted in a number of ways.
Does that help or is it all as clear as mud still?!
EDIT: Oh, and Jilly Cooper is sort of the English version of Jackie Collins - she writes long novels set mainly in the horse world with lots of sex in them and her long-running central character, Rupert Campbell-Black, is partly based on Andrew Parker-Bowles.