Princess Diana shockingly blamed this person for her failed marriages and it’s not Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles or Queen Elizabeth II.

Many thought that the Princess of Wales loathed the Queen, the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall for her failed marriage. In her infamous Panorama interview, the late People’s Princess said that “there were three of us in this marriage” implying about Prince Charles and Camilla’s affair.

However, aside from the two, there was someone close to her that she felt was also responsible for her marriage breakdown. Princess Diana blamed her own mother, Frances Shand Kydd.

“She told me she did not like her mother and thought she was an alcoholic,” Dr. Lily HUa Yu, an acupuncturist and herbalist, said.

“She felt she had no one to guide her when dealing with complicated situations, and if she’d had a good mother she would have had a successful marriage.”

Debbie Frank who also talked to Princess Diana about the latter’s emotion supported the claim. According to her, Princess Diana had a lot of early pain from her mom for leaving her when she was still too young.

Frank said that there was a “wounded child” in Princess Diana. She would still recount the story of her mother leaving and packing her dresses into the car. She felt that she was a disappointment because her parents wanted a boy. They wanted an heir to carry on the family line. Growing up, she didn’t have a good relationship with her mom.

According to Paul Burrell, Princess Diana’s butler, he overheard a phone call between the mother and the daughter. During their conversation, Princess Diana’s mother berated her for being seen around with Muslim men.

“You’re nothing but a prostitute and a whore, that’s what I’ve brought up, a prostitute,” Princess Diana’s mom reportedly told her.

Despite Princess Diana’s rocky marriage with Prince Charles, she didn’t want to divorce him. In one of her interviews, the Princess of Wales said that as someone who came from a broken family, she wanted to try even harder to make her own marriage work because she didn’t want her kids to experience the pattern she saw in her own family.

Prince Charles and Princess Diana
Prince Charles and Princess Diana at Westminster Abbey, London, for a centenary service for the Royal College Of Music on Feb. 28, 1982.  Getty Images/Hulton Archive