Camila: the queen who had to win the acceptance of the British

Camila against all odds, she has become queen of the british after a life linked to Charles III and after shaking off, with great effort, the label of “public enemy” of the nation to win over the citizenry.

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After 16 years of marriage and many more of a hidden idyll with the current monarch, Camila’s path to sitting on the royal throne has been much less conventional.

She has had to endure being the target of contempt from the public and fodder for the national tabloids, who perceived her as the great villain who meddled in the relationship between Carlos and the ill-fated (and adored) Lady Di.

As best she could, she waded through obstacles and turned a deaf ear to criticism and is now the grandmother of five grandchildren (Lola, Freddy, Eliza, Gus and Louis) and another five from Carlos – Guillermo’s three children (Jorge, Carlota and Luis) and Archie and Lilibet, from Enrique and Meghan-, achieved something that seemed impossible: to come to the throne as a respected figure in the country.

Stock Image | Britain’s Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, smells flowers during a visit to the 2022 Sandringham Flower Show at King’s Lynn in Sandringham on July 27, 2022. (Photo by Chris Jackson / POOL / AFP) (CHRIS JACKSON/)

The second wife of Elizabeth II’s eldest son was born in London, in the hospital King’s Collegeon July 17, 1947, and had a privileged childhood as the daughter of Commander Bruce Shand, a British Army officer and member of the so-called gentry, who worked as a wine merchant, and Rosalind Cubith, eldest daughter of the 3rd Baron Ashcombe.

In addition, he has a long list of titles, including the ducal de Cornwallthe duchess of Rothesay and that of the Countess of Chester.

According to the legislation, she would also have been named Princess of Wales, something that would have been perceived as a provocation, with which from the beginning Buckingham Palace it was determined that she would be called the Duchess of Cornwall with the title of Royal Highness, out of respect for Diana’s memory.

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IN A POLO MATCH

Camila met Carlos, who would be the undisputed love of her life, at the age of 23 during a polo match.

As the local media have revealed countless times, she herself then told the monarch that her great-great-grandfather, King Edward VII, had been her great-grandmother’s lover. alice keppel.

Curiously, Carlos did not see his future consort in her then and Camila made a clean slate by marrying Andrew Henry Parker Bowles, with whom she had two children, Thomas Henry Charles “Tom” Parker Bowlesgodson of Prince Charles, and Laura Rose Lopes-Parker Bowles.

The queen today Camila figured in his day among the illustrious guests who attended the wedding of the Prince of Wales with the aristocrat Lady Diana Frances Spencerdaughter of the Earl of Spencer.

However, that link could not dissolve the “affair” that they already maintained Carlos and Camilla, a story that endured, against all odds, and that survived the occasional embarrassing incident, such as the infamous “tamponate”.

Stock Image | Britain’s Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, arrives at St George’s Chapel for the Most Noble Order of the Garter Ceremony at Windsor Castle in Windsor, west London on June 13, 2022. (Photo by Chris Jackson / POOL / AFP) (CHRIS JACKSON /)

Andrew Parker Bowles he divorced her in 1995. And, barely a year later, the union between Carlos and Diana was also officially dissolved, thus giving free rein to the relationship with Camila.

the unexpected Lady Di’s death in a traffic accident in Paris in 1997, he plunged the country into a collective cry that revealed the absolute devotion of the British for the dead princess in the face of the antipathy that the queen today aroused.

Years passed and careful image campaigns, well orchestrated from the British Royal House, until, finally, Camila managed to be accepted by the citizenry and by the children of Carlos and Lady Di, Enrique and Guillermo.

The couple married, after three decades of romance and criticism, with a ceremony officiated in Windsor City Council on April 9, 2005. Now, too, they become kings of the British together.

Stock Image | Britain’s Prince Charles and his bride Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall leave St George’s Chapel in Windsor after the church blessing of their civil wedding ceremony, April 09, 2005. In the background is the Queen Elizabeth of Great Britain. (Photo by ALASTAIR GRANT / POOL / AFP) (ALASTAIR GRANT -/)

Source: Elcomercio