![]() “She’s already done that, because it was already there inside him,” the royal biographer Angela Levin tells me of Camilla’s effect on Prince Charles. “It is my sincere wish that, when that time comes, Camilla will be known as Queen Consort.” “It is my sincere wish that, when that time comes, Camilla will be known as Queen Consort,” the queen said, ending years of speculation about the duchess’s future title. In February, Buckingham Palace marked the 70th anniversary of Elizabeth II’s accession with a bombshell statement. The queen herself, it was claimed by the author Tom Bower, described her son’s mistress as “that wicked woman.” Camilla had shamed the monarchy and thrown into doubt Charles’s moral authority as a future king. They didn’t, but such a scenario was entirely believable. ![]() ![]() It is still widely reported that angry women threw bread rolls at her outside a provincial supermarket. Camilla’s humiliation was complete her stock could sink no lower. Things only got worse a year later when a secretly recorded, excruciatingly personal booty call between Charles and Camilla confirmed Diana’s worst fears. It is easy to forget how poorly Camilla Parker Bowles was thought of when Andrew Morton’s 1992 biography of Princess Diana tore the veil off a marriage that Diana would later describe as “a bit crowded.” Prince Charles’s mistress was derided as a marriage wrecker and worse, the nemesis-and “frumpy” antithesis-of the woman who would soon be remembered as the people’s princess. On the one year anniversary of Queen Elizabeth's death, we're republishing this story on Camilla's path to Queen.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Details
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |