camelot23ca
Heir Presumptive
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Charles never should have messed around in his twenties. He wasted valuable time and he could have married someone he had something in common with and Diana would have found someone who could have handled her energy and it was a mess. Telling someone to sow their oats and then find a good wife is bad advice all around.
Given that Charles knew he had to marry and have children, and that his wife had to be a certain kind of girl, yours would have been good advice. It probably would have given him the best chance at a truly happy, or at least stable, marriage. If Charles had been a more mature, less diffident man when he was, say, 24 or 25, he might have made a concerted effort to find a suitable young woman in her early 20s with whom he also shared some common interests and they hopefully could have grown together. A 25 or 26 year old man marrying a 22 or 23 year old woman is a much different scenario than a 30 year old marrying a teenager. Unfortunately by the time Charles was 30 women closer to his own age were either married or no longer "suitable" to marry him.
In retrospect Charles and Diana were so obviously mismatched on so many levels it's hard to believe either family allowed the marriage to take place. But I suppose they thought the worst case scenario was that they might have the sort of upper class marriage where each partner, (after children), was free to discreetly live their own life.