King Charles warned Prince William, ‘Don’t make the mistakes that I made’ in marriage: expert

Prince William received a warning about his marriage from his father, King Charles.

“[His father] said, ‘Look, William, there’s nothing more important than your family,’” Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine and author of “My Mother and I,” told Fox News Digital.

“’Don’t make the mistakes that I made,’” Seward claimed he said. “I just did duty, duty, duty. I neglected my marriage, and look what happened.’”

And there are lessons to be learned from the king’s past.

Charles met Camilla Parker Bowles at a polo match in 1970. The two became close, but their romance was interrupted by his eight months of naval duty. In his absence, Camilla married her longtime boyfriend, army officer Andrew Parker Bowles, in 1973.

Camilla and Andrew divorced in 1995, shortly after Charles gave an explosive interview admitting an affair with his former love. Charles and Diana’s divorce was finalized in 1996, a year before the princess was killed in a car crash at age 36.

William met Kate Middleton when they were students at St. Andrews University in 2001. The following year, they moved in together with friends. The couple eventually moved into a place of their own in 2003, a year before their relationship went public.

The couple parted ways in 2007 after nearly five years of dating and got back together later that year. William proposed to Kate in 2010, and the couple married in 2011.