15 Fascinating Stories of How the Royals Have Proposed

Charles and Diana had been dating for around six months when he proposed in Windsor, and at first Diana didn't take him seriously.

She told her biographer Andrew Morton, "He said, 'Will you marry me?' and I laughed. I remember thinking this is a joke, and I said, 'Yeah, OK,' and laughed. He was deadly serious. He said, 'You do realize that one day you will be queen?' And a voice said to me inside, 'You won't be queen, but you will have a tough role . . .' 'Yes,' I said: 'I love you so much, I love you so much.' He said, 'Whatever love means.' . . . and so he ran upstairs and rang his mother."