Breaking News: King Charles “Made Up for His Lack of Romance” with Princess Diana with Queen Camilla, Former Royal Butler Says…..See More

Charles and Camilla will celebrate 20 years of marriage in April in the most romantic of places.

Former royal butler Paul Burrell said that the former Prince Charles “wasn’t romantic” in his marriage to Princess Diana—but that he is making up for his mistakes in his first marriage through his second marriage, to wife Queen Camilla.

Of being romantic with Diana, “He tried to be, but he didn’t have a romantic bone in his body,” Burrell said via Prime Casino. Though Diana wrote her husband love letters, they weren’t returned, and in Diana’s own words to biographer Andrew Morton for his bombshell 1992 biography Diana: Her True Story, “I just absolutely thought I was the luckiest girl in the world. He was going to look after me. Well, I was wrong on that assumption.”

Charles and Diana married in 1981, separated in 1992, and divorced in 1996; Diana died one year later as a result of a Paris car accident on August 31, 1997. She was just 36 years old.

Throughout Charles and Diana’s marriage, Charles was involved with Camilla Parker Bowles romantically; the two eventually married in April 2005, and are just weeks away from their milestone 20th wedding anniversary.

“It is astonishing to think that Charles and Camilla’s wedding anniversary is 20 years this year,” Burrell said. “Charles made up for his lack of romance [with Diana] with Camilla. He’s been married to Camilla longer than he was married to Diana. That is astonishing.”

Burrell is a staunch Diana advocate, working closely with the late Princess of Wales until her death 28 years ago this August. “And I’m thinking to myself, ‘Wow, what did you do in the 20 years married to Camilla?’” Burrell continued. “I can’t think of anything. But what did he do in his short marriage with Diana? A lot. There’s more public record of his life with Diana than there is with Camilla. That tells you something.”

To each their own opinion—after all, Charles has become King during his marriage to Camilla—and the King and Queen will spend their milestone anniversary likely on a royal tour of Italy and Vatican City, Hello! reported. Buckingham Palace confirmed the trip will celebrate the “strong bilateral relationship between Italy and the U.K.”—and will no doubt provide a romantic backdrop to mark two decades of marriage for the couple.