Princess Diana Threw Herself ‘Down the Stairs’ While Pregnant With Prince William 

Princess Diana got pregnant less than four months after her 1981 wedding to then-Prince Charles — and quickly became torn between her royal duty and debilitating morning sickness.

“With [Prince] William it was appalling, almost every time I stood up I was sick,” she told Andrew Morton for his book, Diana: Her True Story — In Her Own Words, adding that she was “made to feel it was a nuisance” when she got sick during formal events, but felt obligated to attend anyway.

“There was only ever one cancellation when I was carrying William, the visit to the Duchy of Cornwall’s estate,” she continued, according to the book, which was released in 2017. “And I was made to feel so guilty by my husband for that.”

The pressure came to a head in early 1982 while they were staying at Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England. “Charles said I was crying wolf and I said I felt so desperate and I was crying my eyes out and he said: ‘I’m not going to listen. You’re always doing this to me. I’m going riding now,'” Diana recounted. “So I threw myself down the stairs. The Queen comes out, absolutely horrified, shaking – she was so frightened.”

“I knew I wasn’t going to lose the baby; quite bruised around the stomach,” she added. And according to The Telegraph, the royal gynecologist, Sir George Pinker, was summoned to her side and found that the baby was uninjured.

A few months later, “William had to be induced because I couldn’t handle the pressure any longer, it was becoming unbearable,” she confessed, adding that she and Charles had to choose a date that “suited him and his polo.”

William was born on June 21, 1982. “I was sick as a parrot the whole way through the labour, very bad labour,” the princess continued. “Came home and then the postnatal depression hit me so hard and it wasn’t so much the baby that had produced it, it was the baby that triggered off all else that was going on in my mind.”

The depression only compounded her already tenuous marriage.

“Everything was out of control,” she explained. At William’s christening, she added, “I just blubbed my eyes out. William started crying too. Well, he just sensed that I wasn’t exactly hunky-dory.”

Diana and Charles would go on to welcome Prince Harry in 1984, after which “it just went bang, our marriage, the whole thing went down the drain,” she said.

The couple separated in 1992 amid affairs on both of their parts. They officially divorced in 1996 and Diana tragically died in a car crash in Paris the next year.

Charles, now King Charles III, 77, eventually wed his longtime mistress, who would become Queen Camilla, 79, in 2005.