Camila met Carlos, who would become the undisputed love of her life, at age 23 at a polo match.
As the local media has revealed countless times, she herself then told the monarch that her great-great-grandfather, King Edward VII, had been the lover of her great-grandmother Alice Keppel.
Oddly enough, Carlos didn’t see his future consort in her then and Camila wiped the slate clean by marrying Andrew Henry Parker Bowles, with whom she had two children, Thomas Henry Charles “Tom” Parker Bowles, godson of Prince Charles, and Laura Rose Lopes-Parker Bowles.
Today Queen Camila was once one of the illustrious guests who attended the wedding of the Prince of Wales to the aristocrat Lady Diana Frances Spencer, daughter of the Earl of Spencer.
However, that link failed to resolve the “affair” Carlos and Camilla already had, a story that persisted against all odds, surviving the occasional embarrassing incident like the infamous “Tampongate.”
Andrew Parker Bowles divorced her in 1995. And barely a year later, the relationship between Carlos and Diana was also officially dissolved, giving free rein to the relationship with Camila.
The unexpected death of Lady Di in a traffic accident in Paris in 1997 plunged the country into a collective cry that revealed the absolute devotion of the British to the dead princess despite the antipathy aroused by the Queen today.
Years and careful image campaigns passed, well orchestrated by the British royal family, until Camila finally managed to be accepted by the public and by the children of Carlos and Lady Di, Enrique and Guillermo.
The couple, after three decades of romance and criticism, married in a ceremony at Windsor Town Hall on April 9, 2005. Now they too are becoming Kings of the Britons together.
Source: El heraldo
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