Just like his two royal sons, Prince Charles also had his fair share of lovely women in his life. The heir apparent had Camilla Shand – who later on became Camilla Parker-Bowles, and there was Princess Diana, his first wife.

But before dating Diana Spencer, the Prince was linked first to Diana’s older sister Sarah Spencer, and things could have been different if Sarah married the Prince.

Princess Diana’s appearance in the life of Prince Charles was due to her older sister. Charles was extremely smitten by Sarah and as she put it the heir to the throne easily falls in love.

When Sarah Spencer introduces Prince Charles to Princess Diana on a hunting trip he made to their house, Diana was only 16.

How different would Prince Charles's life be if he married Sarah instead of Diana?

Well, a lot of things would be different. Firstly, Sarah was much older than Diana and she had more experience with men and life itself. Diana, when married to Charles, was only 19 years of age.

Sarah and Diana came from a noble line and it was easy to see that Charles could have ended up with Sarah instead of settling for the younger Spencer.

Unfortunately, Sarah was never in love with Charles, and she was once interviewed by a journalist on how she sees things ending with Charles.

The older Spencer answered that she did not see ever marrying Charles because she was not in love, and she would never marry someone who she was not in love with.

This was one of the reasons why Charles ended things with Sarah but other than that, it was her talking to journalists about their relationship that was the deal-breaker.

When Prince Charles started seeing Diana, Sarah was shockingly proud of it and even bragged that she played cupid for the two.

Diana’s life was cut short; at 36, the Princess died from a car crash and her marriage was awful, ending a year before her untimely death.

According to the late Princess Diana, in her many interviews, she thought that Prince Charles asked her hand in marriage as a joke, which she answered in good jest with a ‘yes.’ Charles went on to tell her that she will someday be Queen.

“You do realise that one day you will be queen.' And a voice said to me inside: 'You won't be queen, but you'll have a tough role,’” Diana told royal biographer Andrew Morton.

Princess Diana would have had a different life if only things worked out with Charles and Sarah.