The Coronation will be the culmination of “the greatest image rehab in history,” Tina Brown says. Sources who knew Diana say it will be “difficult” to watch.
People have got used to Charles, 74, and his former mistress, 75, as a twinkly-eyed pair of grandparents who would seem happiest pottering around the garden, thanks to a phenomenal PR job which makes their unpopularity hard to recall.
When Diana tragically died in August 1997, the British public made no secret of their distaste for Charles and Camilla. Bolland stayed with Charles until 2002. The source close to Diana told Page Six: “Mark essentially weaponized Charles’ press office and he was brought in for the purpose of the rehabilitation of Camilla.”
But Charles and Camilla were beginning another race: to make her queen. In 2022, they finally got Queen Elizabeth’s blessing for the once unthinkable move. As Brown said previously: ‘Diana would have loathed the idea of Queen Camilla, there’s no question about it…” — although she said it was “a very shrewd bit of estate planning” by the queen, who died in September aged 96.Camilla and her ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles are great friends and grandparents to five grandchildren.A source who was very close to Diana told Page Six: “To celebrate Camilla’s coronation will be very, very difficult.
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