Prince Edward ‘Sensed’ Trouble Princess Diana Would Cause, Didn’t Treat Her As ‘Friend’

Prince Edward used to be wary of Princess Diana. In fact, while the entire world was going crazy over the newest addition to the royal family, Prince Edward didn’t seem excited to be around his older brother’s wife.

In the book “Prince Edward,” royal biographer Ingrid Seward said that Prince Edward didn’t also regard Princess Diana as his friend but simply as Prince Charles’ wife.

“It was as if he sensed the trouble she would cause his elder brother and, by keeping her at arm’s distance, he was readying himself for the problems that lay ahead. It would have been out of character and training if he had been anything less than apprehensive when Diana began redefining the Royal Family to reflect her own personality… It grated against his sense of propriety, and the faster Diana spun her glamorous web, the further Edward distanced himself from her,” she said.

Prince Edward has been described as a man of fierce loyalty to his family and the institution that they embody. And as such, he didn’t like how Princess Diana and Sarah Ferguson destroyed the royal family’s trust.

After Princess Diana and Prince Charles separated in 1992, the Princess of Wales shared details about her ex-husband and the royal family during her interview with Martin Bashir for Panorama.

Ferguson also shocked the entire British clan when she posed for a series of compromising photos with a rich businessman. These events made Prince Edward lose any affection he had for his sisters-in-law.

And in return, Princess Diana and Ferguson were not necessarily fans of Prince Edward and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, either. When Princess Diana was still alive, she and Fergie used to complain about how differently Sophie was treated by Queen Elizabeth and the royals.

Unlike Princess Diana and Ferguson, Sophie was given permission to live with Prince Edward even before they got married. This way, she already had an idea about how the royal family works.