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Royal Family News – Camilla Will Be Queen
At that time, Charles was looking around for a suitable wife, one that was queen material. According to the author, Lord Mountbatten’s granddaughter Amanda Knatchbull and the Duke of Wellington’s daughter Jane Wellesley both turned him down when he proposed marriage.
Was the third time the charm? Diana eventually married Charles, but, “all the while, his heart belonged to Camilla, whose husband Andrew was a major in a Household regiment, the Blues and Royals. The Prince’s continued pursuit of a married woman, however, had offended many of Andrew’s fellow officers.”
Royal Family News – Camilla Was Once Excluded
In turn the queen allegedly took care of the matter by excluding Parker Bowles to any Royal events including Charles’s 30th birthday party at Buckingham Palace in 1978. “Camilla had, in effect, been ‘cancelled’ by the highest in the land, and there was nothing her Royal lover could do about it.”
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No matter, “Charles settled on 19-year-old Diana Spencer as his bride. Five years into their troubled marriage, however, it was a different matter. By July 1986, both had found comfort in the arms of other lovers. But while Diana would go on to have a number of affairs, Charles had eyes for only one woman: Mrs Parker Bowles.”
Royal Family News – Charles Got His Way In The End
Morton claims that crafty, “Prince Charles had started laying the groundwork for Camilla’s continuing presence in his life. Publicly, he declared in a 1994 TV documentary that she was a good friend and would remain so in the future. Privately, he encouraged her to take on the role of mistress of Highgrove.”
But the Queen wanted Camilla gone as did her private secretary Sir Robert Fellowes whose wife was Diana’s sister. Totes awkward.
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Morton notes that, “Charles, for his part, made it abundantly clear to his mother that Camilla wasn’t going anywhere, and his obdurate attitude inevitably placed St James’s Palace and Buckingham Palace on a collision course.”
And yet this February the queen yielded to her son and heir, declaring that Camilla will in due time be queen consort. Did time heal all wounds or did Charles, like water on a rock, simply wear his mother down? Morton is mum on that one.
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