The late queen gave Camilla the final stamp of approval in February, when she expressed her “sincere wish” that she be crowned queen “when the day comes.” Though it had taken decades to reach that …
Princess Diana dubbed her the ‘Rottweiler’ after the aggressive German breed of dog. Angry women were said to have tossed bread rolls at her in a supermarket parking lot. Caricatured as a frumpy marriage wrecker, the third wheel in the doomed marriage of Charles and Diana, Camilla Parker Bowles was, for a time, the most hated woman in Britain, only leaving her home under the cover of darkness.
Diana and Prince Charles at their 1981 engagement announcement, years before Camilla was revealed as Charles’ “other woman.”Queen Elizabeth, Camilla, and Kate attend a drinks reception on the sidelines of the June 2021 G7 summit in Cornwall, Britain.In the early days, the queen was on friendly terms with Camilla and her then-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles. Over the years, she even gave the couple two corgis, Danny and Windsor Flame, as Camilla shared the queen’s love of dogs and horses.
Together at last: Charles and Camilla greet the crowd outside St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle following an earlier civil service ceremony on April 9, 2005.Personal feelings aside, the queen realized instinctively that the British public would not accept the public unveiling of his new partner so soon after Diana’s tragic death. A palace briefing to a BBC documentary at the time revealed that the queen had not formally met with Camilla, nor would she even appear at the same function.
Things were moving along at a quicker pace, thanks to a decision by the Church of England to take a more relaxed view of divorced couples marrying in church. For years, the queen had been balancing her son’s future happiness with her role as monarch and head of the Church of England. Now she could act to end Camilla’s long wait. During an audience with Charles at Sandringham on Christmas 2004, the queen gave permission for them to marry.
In their different ways, both the queen and Camilla — who was conferred with the title Duchess of Cornwall after the marriage — were in it for the long game, a strategy which matched their conservative, rather cautious personalities. At public events involving the royal family, the duchess — for so long a royal outsider — was now on easy and convivial terms with the queen and other members of the family.
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