One month before her death in 1997, the late Princess Diana reportedly told a renowned royal biographer that she would go back to her ex-husband Prince Charles “in a heartbeat.”

Former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown told The Daily Telegraph that Diana confessed this to her when they were having lunch at the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York in July of 1997, one month before the royal was tragically killed in a car crash at the age of 36.

Diana told Brown, who is the author of “The Diana Chronicles,” during this lunch that she had finally come to accept that Charles was in love with Camilla Parker Bowles. While wearing a mint green Chanel suit, Diana revealed to Brown that she and Charles had even started seeing each other socially again, and that they had “enjoyed some laughs” as they discussed their various philanthropic efforts at Kensington Palace.

“At the end of Diana’s life, she and Charles were on the best terms they’d been for a very long time,” Brown recalled. “Charles got into the habit of dropping in on her at Kensington Palace and they would have tea and a sort of rueful exchange. They even had some laughs together.”

This comes after Penny Thornton, an astrologer consulted by Diana, came forward to claim that Charles had told Diana the night before their wedding that he didn’t love her.

“One of the most shocking things that Diana told me was that the night before the wedding Charles told her that he didn’t love her,” Thornton said, according to People Magazine. “I think Charles didn’t want to go into the wedding on a false premise. He wanted to square it with her and it was devastating for Diana.”

“She didn’t want to go through with the wedding at that point, she thought about not attending the wedding,” she added.

Ingrid Seward, author of the new book Prince Philip Revealed: A Man of His Century, told US Weekly that Charles, 71, “felt he’d been very pushed into marrying” Diana in 1981.

“He told some of his friends that he felt pressurized into marrying Diana because Philip said, ‘You’ve either got to marry her or let her go. You can’t string a … young girl [along]. She’s only 19. You can’t string her along,’” Seward said. “And all the press is saying, ‘Oh, this is going to be the next queen.’ You’ve got to take a stand and say that this is not going to work, or you marry her.”

“Charles … he was frightened of his father and he probably thought, ‘Well, OK. I’ll marry her if that’s what you want me to do,'” she added.

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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