Lady Di's wedding: four people had to get Camilla out of bed that day
The day that Lady Di and Carlos of England were married was etched in the memory of many people, whether they were fans of the princess or not. It is one of those days that everyone remembers, like the day of a great tragedy or a major sports victory.
The morning the princes of Wales said 'yes, I do' was informatively relevant and entertaining on television: some 750 million people watched the wedding, some gawking and others out of the corner of their eye. But there was a person who lived that day with special interest, without being her the bride or that her wedding.
The same morning in which Carlos planted his uniform and Diana tried to get into that dress that had to be fixed over and over again because the 'princess of the people' kept losing weight, Camilla Parker Bowles had to be ripped out of bed ... What happened to the current wife of the heir to the British throne?
Diana and Camilla, in an image from 1980. (Getty)
The Duchess of Cornwall, who has been married to Carlos since 2005, experienced her husband's first wedding with very high levels of stress, as revealed by journalist and writer Penny Junor, author of several books on the British royal family and paths biographies of Diana and Carlos. Penny explains: “Camilla was not well on the wedding day. All week she had been in Ray Mill House (the house where they say she collected a small gallery of clippings of cartoons and parodies of her rival) suffering from sinusitis. "Some of her friends had spent afternoons with her, chatting and keeping her company, while Lucía Santa Cruz, the one who introduced her to Carlos, brought her some homemade soup," says the journalist. The friend told Camilla: "In Chile everything is cured with chicken soup." Lucia was afraid that Camilla would not be able to go to the wedding, because, according to her words, she was very ill, very stressed ”.
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That July 29, 1981, it took four people to get Camilla out of bed. “The night before she had spent it with her friends Annabel and Laura,” Junor says. “She still wasn't feeling well, but this time it was more nerves than sinusitis that kept her under the covers. I was terrified. "
Camilla Parker, on a visit to Liverpool. (Getty)
With great support from her friends, and effort on her part, Camilla got up and went to the wedding. He still had other problems to face such as deciding where to position himself or how to address the royal family. He understood that Elizabeth II, with this wedding, had accepted that her son would leave behind the relationship that they had maintained before (later it was learned that also during) his marriage with Diana.
It would take almost a quarter of a century for Camilla to attend another wedding for Charles of England, this time as a bride and not as a witness.
