Few public figures have known the depths of opprobrium she reached in the late 1990s after the death of Princess Diana.
At her lowest ebb, when Britain hated her, the tabloids were describing her as frump, old trout and horse face, and even Queen Elizabeth described her as “that wicked woman”, Queen Camilla is said to have been pelted with bread rolls at a bakery.
The relationship between Camilla and Charles has survived almost anything that could be thrown at it. For decades, every power in the kingdom – from the queen to the archbishop to the prime minister to the populace – wanted it over. Yet against all odds, they’re still together almost 55 years later. The tale of these two staid 70-somethings has become the enduring royal love story of their generation.
Camilla and Charles dated for a while. Despite Prince Harry’s claims about her ambitions, royal watchers say the aristocratic Camilla grew up close enough to palace life to know that she didn’t want any part of it. Charles was a dalliance; Camilla was far more interested in the dashing Andrew Parker Bowles, a military lieutenant and fellow aristocrat who was famous for his philandering.
Unlike Camilla, Diana loved the idea of being a princess. She was perfect, but for one issue that everyone overlooked; they were wildly incompatible. During an engagement television interview, Charles was asked if he loved her. “Whatever ‘in love’ means,” he replied. Nevertheless, they persisted. They wore down or waited out the opposition . Finally, they married in 2005. It was nothing like the Prince of Wales’ first wedding. Camilla reportedly left the palace for the registry that day wearing mismatching shoes.There is, of course, no such thing as a fairytale romance.
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