How Princess Diana's cigarette-loving big sister - who dated Prince Charles

As Lady Sarah McCorquodale celebrates 44 years of marriage today, onlookers may wonder if she is reflecting on how different her life could have been.

In an astonishingly frank interview with Woman's Own, Bradford's biography reports that Sarah declared: 'I'm not in love with Prince Charles.'I can assure you that if there was to be any engagement between Prince Charles and myself, then it would have happened by now.' Sarah also described Charles as a 'romantic who falls in love easily' and revealed that despite their closeness, she always called him 'sir'.

Her husband Neil McCorquodale, now 73, is reported to be 'solid, very steady, private, quiet, with a good sense of humour', according to Sally Bedell Smith, author of Diana in Search of Herself: Portrait of a Troubled Princess. It was a reversal of their childhood dynamic in which Diana hero-worshipped her big sister, even being a cleaner at a rental house that Sarah managed for their father.Lady Sarah Spencer married Neil McCorquodale at St Mary's Church, near Althorp, on May 17, 1980. Lady Sarah Armstrong Jones was a bridesmaidBoth sisters remained close after marriage and often holidayed together.

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