Princess Diana and Kate had to follow shocking protocol before marriage, royal author claims

King Charles’ wedding to Princess Diana may be a Royal Blunder but it gave the UK its next king - Prince William. But what if Princess Diana couldn’t bear a child? Well, that was a medical specification that a Royal author claims the Royal Family checked before the marriage of both Princess Diana and Kate.

Princess Diana and Kate took a fertility test

Hello! Magazine confirmed that the Royal author Tom Quinn claimed in his new book - Gilded Youth: An Intimate History of Growing Up in the Royal Family - that the future queens had to undergo a fertility test. Addressing it as ‘usual precautions,’ Tom believes that Prince William could only marry Kate after her fertility test. He wrote:

These are always carried out to ensure a future queen is able to have children. If Kate had not been fertile, there is little doubt the marriage would have been off.

The claims - that don’t have any solid backing or a source - also stated that Princess Diana went through a similar ‘medical check-up.’ According to Tom, Princess Diana told him about the procedure in a brief encounter:

Diana complained in a brief encounter with the present author that she had in all innocence thought her premarital check-ups had to do with general health, only realising later on that she had actually been tested for fertility.

'I was so innocent I just went along with everything at that stage,' she said.

Meanwhile, he insisted that even though Kate knew what was happening, she has never been known to be a ‘rebel,’ hence things never got out of hand.

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Who is Tom Quinn?

Tom Quinn is a 67-year-old London-based Royal author who has written many books on the Royal Family. His pieces include Royal Palaces: An Intimate Memoir of Royals Behaving Badly; Kensington Palace: An Intimate Memoir from Queen Mary to Meghan Markle; The Reluctant Billionaire: The Tragic Life of Gerald Grosvenor, Sixth Duke of Westminster; Mrs Keppel: Mistress to the King and Backstairs Billy: The Life of William Tallon, the Queen Mother’s Most Devoted Servant.

Gilded Youth, according to Biteback Publishing, talks about how ‘dysfunctional childhood experiences produce emotionally damaged adults’ in the Royal Family taking examples of Edward VIII, Princess Margaret and Prince Harry.

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Sources Used

Hello! Magazine: Princess Kate's 'fertility was tested' before marriage to Prince William - new book claims

Biteback Publishing: Gilded Youth An Intimate History of Growing Up in the Royal Family