The fairytale wedding of Princess Diana and Prince Charles captivated the world.
On this day 41 years ago in 1981, the late princess wowed as she walked down the aisle of St Paul's Cathedral in a huge ivory silk taffeta gown to marry the heir to the throne.
Diana, who was just 20 at the time and had only met Charles a handful of times, looked understandably nervous in front of the 3,500 people inside the cathedral and the billions watching at home.
But according to a friend of Diana's, she was left devastated the night before the wedding by a confession by Charles as he "did not want to go into the marriage on a false promise".
Diana's astrologer, Penny Thornton, who worked closely with the princess claims Charles told his fiancee that he didn't love her.
Speaking on ITV documentary The Diana Interview: Revenge Of A Princess, she said: "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...
'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.
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'She didn't want to go through with the wedding at that point, she thought about not attending the wedding.'
But despite the concerns on both sides, the wedding went ahead the next day.
However, in the book about Camilla called The Duchess: The Untold Story, royal author Penny Junor claims Charles believed the wedding was a mistake but knew it was too late to pull out.
She writes: "Charles was not convinced he was doing the right thing in marrying Diana but there was no way out and, bolstered by the hope that things would be different once they were married, he put a brave face on it."
A year after their fairytale wedding, Charles and Diana welcomed Prince William and later Prince Harry but the couple separated in 1992 after their marriage broke down.
They divorced in 1996, just a year before Diana tragically died following a car crash in Paris.
And in 2005, Charles married his second wife Camilla, who is now known as the Duchess of Cornwall and will be the Queen Consort when her husband takes the throne.
