1980 snapshot: Lady Diana Spencer stalls her Mini Metro outside her Earl’s Court flat

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FLASHBACK snapshot: 1980 – “Lady Diana Spencer’s look of astonishment as she stalls her car – a new Mini Metro – outside her Earl’s Court flat when leaving for her job as a teacher at a kindergarten in Pimlico, London. Speculation continues that she may have a romantic involvement with the Prince of Wales.”

So said the Press Association.

It turned out there was little romance. She did have two kids with Charles – an heir and a spare. But his romantic involvement was with his current wife, Camilla Parker Bowles. Her romantic involvements played a part in her untimely death,…

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