Princess Diana Reportedly Told Queen Elizabeth That Prince Charles Was a "Nightmare”

New revelations about Princess Diana and her relationship with now-King Charles are coming to light as editor-in-chief of Majesty Magazine Ingrid Seward promotes her new book, My Mother and I, which chronicles the relationship between Queen Elizabeth and Charles. 

According to Seward, the late Queen Elizabeth knew about the troubles in Diana and Charles's relationship long before the two separated and eventually divorced. It wasn't tough, as the author explains Diana was openly crying to her mother-in-law and calling her then-husband a "nightmare." 

"Diana used to go to her private room in between appointments that the Queen had, which were every 20 minutes, and burst into tears," Seward said, per OK! "[She would say] ‘Everybody hates me, mama, and I hate my husband. 

He’s a nightmare.'" Seward continued, saying, “The queen would just stand there [horrified], and Diana would be getting more and more hysterical. [The queen] didn’t know how to handle it, but she thought Charles should know how to handle it. That was a very low point in the relationship.” 

Seward added that Elizabeth “couldn’t understand how” Charles “couldn’t handle” his marriage and the deteriorating relationship with his wife. “And [the Queen] didn’t understand, because she didn’t have the experience to understand something like that,” Seward finished. 

“Remember the cloistered world of the royal family, especially in those days. They didn’t have to ever deal with moral conflict, because there was always someone else to do it for them. 

If you didn’t want to talk to someone, the switchboard at Buckingham Palace would just not put them through. So, you never had to take on things. And the queen wasn’t used to doing this.”