Dale Tryon, Baroness Tryon

Although married, her friendship with Prince Charles developed. Both enjoyed fly fishing, which they undertook regularly. Through this close friendship, there were continual tabloid rumours that Dale was Charles's mistress. This was in part fuelled by Dale's relationship with the press, including the Daily Mail diarist Nigel Dempster. However, in all her publicised newspaper and television interviews, Dale never revealed the extent of their friendship; although Prince Charles publicly described Kanga as "the only woman who ever understood me." Prince Charles also had a long term friendship with the also married Camilla Parker Bowles, but Dale and Camilla didn't get on, and this feud continued throughout her ongoing relationship with Prince Charles. Prince Charles was also godfather to Camilla's son Tom and Dale's son Charlie. Read Less

However Spina Bifida is a physical deformity of the spine - a permanent condition - and is not suffered in 'bouts'. It is more likely that her health suffered from her known diagnosis of Legg–Calvé–Perthes syndrome. After this point she travelled for a period with a nurse, a physiotherapist, and her daughter who would lie next to her as she slept, rolling her over regularly. During Prince Charles's and Diana's divorce Dale tried to remain friends with both parties; for a while it had become well-founded tabloid speculation that Prince Charles had, since the breakdown of his own marriage, been continuing an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, which led to Dale and Charles starting to become distant.

To help her recover from her medical treatments, Tryon became very interested in alternative medicine and a wide variety of spiritual practices; she also decided to undertake a retreat in the Himalayas. Soon after she received the 'all clear' from cancer, Tryon underwent treatment at Farm Place, an alcohol and drug rehabilitation clinic in Surrey. She was on a heavy dose of painkillers, and drank excessive quantities of vodka and champagne. While undergoing treatment for addiction at the Farm Place Clinic, she jumped from a first-floor window, broke her back and became paralysed. Read Less