What did Prince Charles see in Camilla Parker Bowles that he didn't see in Princess Diana?

People often refer to Camilla as a homewrecker—which in a sense, is definitely true. But

Camilla or no Camilla, Charles and Diana’s marriage was doomed from the start.

Diana wasn’t unclever, but she wasn’t particularly intellectual. She had little in common with the
stodgy, old-school Prince of Wales. Their monstrous age-gap was bad enough, but their interests
widened the already soaring gap between them. You can tell from their engagement interview
alone; their relationship was awkward, stifling, and incredibly strained.
It was said that when Charles was at Cambridge, he almost resembled a student from the 1930s.
He strongly disapproved of the new music and long hair of the sixties, never mind the eighties. I
never bought the claim that Diana was an airhead, but she certainly didn’t spend her leisure time
reading the philosophy of Jung and Laurens van de Post.

Diana was a complicated person, who had serious emotional issues, which I don’t think Charles
was prepared to deal with.

And to an extent, Charles and Diana’s marriage was practically arranged. Charles had to wed an
aristocratic woman with no past—his dating pool etched as though it were still 1950. He was the
world’s most eligible bachelor and bouldered by a crippling pressure to marry and produce an
heir. So 19-year old Lady Diana Spencer, the daughter of an Earl, seemed like a decent match.

Once they married, all you could read and see was Diana. Diana played with the media; she
loved the camera and the camera loved her. Though when you’re married to the future King, the
ideal is to let him call the shots. But Diana didn’t do that, and the world loved her for it. She was
a truly wonderful woman, but not what Prince Charles needed.