Anna Wallace's Love Affair With King Charles Was Much Nastier Than You Thought

Look at the photograph. London, December 1980. A bride leaves the Guards Chapel, veil up, photographers at the car door. For six months the papers had her tipped as the next Princess of Wales. The groom is not Prince Charles. He is nine weeks from proposing to a nineteen-year-old. That summer, at two balls, he reportedly danced most of both evenings with another man's wife. The line Anna Wallace supposedly threw at him survives in three different versions, in three different books, and never in her own voice. She never gave one. That silence is where the real story starts.