![]() ![]() Though Camilla was for all intents and purposes Andrew's No. And the future king's undivided attention was what she deserved after having signed up for a relationship that had a big question mark looming over it for years. Though more is made of how Camilla's enduring affection helped Charles come into his own and, eventually, helped repair both of their reputations in the public eye, Charles' love for Camilla also helped her heal from life's indignities as well. He also had been an officer of the Household Cavalry, the queen's official bodyguard, since 1960. His parents were longtime friends of Charles' grandmother Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and at 13 Andrew was a pageboy at Queen Elizabeth II's coronation. "I've been through several pencils."Īndrew, meanwhile, already had multiple inroads with the royal family. "Not easy to write about your husband," she confided with a laugh. Now she and Charles have pretty much been through everything together, including scandal ( their own and everyone else's), respective divorces, family turmoil, keeping track of 10 grandkids and now reigning as king and queen consort.Īhead of her 75th birthday last July 17, Camilla guest-edited an edition of Country Life-her love of that very thing being legendary-and an ITV special featuring rare access showed her meeting with staffers from the publication. Unlike Princess Diana, Charles' first wife and the spouse whom many people still carry a torch for more than 25 years after her death, Camilla never felt the pressure to be anything other than herself-because she had, technically, gone off to live her own life by the time Charles proposed to Diana.Īnd by the time she was thrust into the judgmental public eye, first as the other woman, the so-called third person in Charles and Diana's marriage then as his actual partner and then, at last, his wife-she could be nothing but herself. ![]() With each well into their 50s and the confrontation-averse Charles content to just continue on as they were, there had been no certainty that they would ever become husband and wife. But despite the couple's rocky reception in earlier days, seemingly anyone who's spent time with Charles and Camilla thinks he made the right move-for himself and the United Kingdom-by tying the knot. Yet think how easily it all could have gone south, not least because they used to be married to other people-and Charles hails from a family that historically held the reins rather tightly when it came to who was considered a suitable mate for one of their own. ![]() Their April 9, 2005, nuptials at Windsor Guildhall marked the start of a new chapter in their epic love story, but it was just one momentous stop on a journey that will find them at Westminster Abbey on May 6, when Charles, 74, and Camilla, 75, will officially be crowned king and queen. King Charles IIIand Queen Camilla have been married for 18 years. But to one degree or another, they've been by each other's side for 50. ![]()
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