What Princess Diana kept from Prince Charles when she was pregnant with Harry
A royal biographer has revealed an important detail of Princess Diana’s second pregnancy that she kept from her husband.
Andrew Morton says Princess Diana told him she knew she was having a son, but kept it a secret from Prince Charles.
“I knew Harry was going to be a boy because I saw on the scan,” he claimed she recalled to which she added: "Charles always wanted a girl".
The royal couple welcomed Prince William in 1982, less than a year after getting married.
Princess Diana fell pregnant again with Harry around two years later.
Morton says the royal told him her husband “wanted two children, and he wanted a girl.”
Morton said in his autobiography, Diana: Her True Story - in Her Own Words that the late royal told him that although she was extremely excited when Prince Harry was born in 1984, Charles was “less enthusiastic.”
It is rumoured after their second child was born, he had reportedly said “Oh God, it’s a boy,” then commented on the hair of Prince Harry where he said “and he’s even got red hair.”
Prince Charles had apparently made it extremely clear he was unhappy with having another son instead of a daughter, telling Princess Di’s mother, Frances Kydd: "We were so disappointed — we thought it would be a girl" at Harry’s christening.
According to Morton, in Diana’s own words, her mother had snapped at him.
She allegedly told her son-in-law "You should realise how lucky you are to have a child that's normal".
Princess Diana and Prince Charles divorced in 1996.
In 1997, Princess Di tragically passed away in a car accident.
Scroll through the gallery above to see Prince Harry as a young child.