But they have, on a personal level, always liked one another and have a great deal in common. She did want Camilla out of the prince’s life-not because she didn’t like her personally but because she could see huge damage being done to the monarchy. “There was a great misconception before Charles and Camilla married that the queen didn’t like her and wanted her out of sight and out of the prince’s life. “I think the queen has always been very fond of Camilla,” says Penny Junor, author of The Duchess. At the diamond jubilee celebrations in 2012, the two women rode side by side in a royal carriage procession, which reflected both Camilla’s seniority and her closeness to the monarch. A kind, caring, and fun person.”Īnd then there is the support of the queen. People are now seeing her for who she is. I think Camilla has climbed Everest in the way she has turned things around. “She always did a lot for charity, but now people are appreciating just how much she does. “She adores her husband, children, and grandchildren.”Ĭamilla’s close friend and Gloucestershire neighbor Jilly Cooper, an author, says the duchess has an “incredible” capacity to take on duties. “She has a very close and supportive family and a close group of old friends,” says her nephew Ben Elliot.
She remains on good terms with her ex-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, and counts her sister, Annabel, as her best friend.
Her family is her nucleus-she is extremely close to her son, Tom, daughter, Laura, and five grandchildren. Meanwhile, Camilla was also a mother trying to shelter two teenage children from ruinous tabloid headlines. To many Britons, Camilla would long be the “third person” in the Waleses’ marriage, as Diana called her in the infamous BBC interview. Despite a palace spin campaign to pave the way for Charles and Camilla, there was resistance to their union, and the campaign took a long time to claim success. Charles and Camilla’s love affair-which Princess Diana blamed for the breakdown of her marriage-seemed doomed. Over the years there have been many challenges.
She understands the benefits and the challenges that go with that.” She is absolutely devoted to the Prince of Wales and to the institution and takes her royal role and duties incredibly seriously. She would say, ‘I do it because I love the boss, it’s my job to be there by his side,’ but she has done so much more than that. “I’m personally thrilled for her because she has worked so hard and really hasn’t put a foot wrong. “There was no inevitability about the duchess becoming queen consort,” says Patrick Harrison, who worked in the press office at Clarence House for 14 years and coordinated media plans for Charles and Camilla’s wedding.
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