New book sheds light on conflict between Queen and Camilla Parker Bowles
For some time now, biographies on Prince Charles have followed one another and made a lot of noise, ranging from revelations to revelations, in particular on his stories with Lady Diana and Camilla Parker Bowles. A new biography has just been released, and it reveals new anecdotes ...
According to this latest unauthorized biography of British journalist Tom Bower, which focuses on the life of Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth II was not a big fan of his new wife Camilla. Nothing surprising so far, but it's the details and the stories told that call out.
The biography "Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles" reveals the underside of the life of the eldest Queen, but also the relationship he had with her, punctuated by tensions born of his divorce from Lady Diana and her couple with Camilla. If Charles and Camilla met during their adolescence, it is finally with Diana, that the prince married, because of his more noble social origins. A marriage doomed to failure, not only because of their age difference (13 years), but above all because of their difference in character and a lack of common interests. If the Queen came to terms with this, she had a harder time coming to terms with adultery.
Indeed, during his marriage to Diana, Prince Charles had a relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles and everything had filtered in the press. After her divorce, Charles had started seeing Camilla "officially" again, but the queen did not approve of this decision. Tom Bower explains that one evening, when Elizabeth II had drunk a little too much martinis, the latter would have told her son that she "did not tolerate adultery, nor did she forgive Camilla for not leaving Charles alone. to allow him to arrange his marriage ". She even reportedly called Camilla a "bad woman", adding "I don't want anything to do with her". Charles was thus not supported by his mother, but by his aunt, Princess Margaret. We can easily imagine the scene in the series "The Crown", supposed to relate this episode in the British royal family at the end of season 3 or during season 4. Following these conflicts, it is said that the queen would have "punished" his eldest son by sending him to live in the austere Saint James Palace in London, and not in the comfortable Clarence House, where he eventually moved after the death of the Queen Mother in 2002.
Fortunately, water flowed under the bridges: the couple formed by Prince Charles and Camilla was finally accepted by the queen, who even gave her consent for their marriage celebrated in Windsor in 2005. It was said that "their relationship having been a factor in the breakdown of both of their marriages, they could not be married in the Church of England, so instead they were officially married at Windsor Town Hall. " However, the couple ended up getting a blessing at Saint George's Chapel in Windsor, where Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will marry on May 19, 2018.
We note all the same that at the latest news, if the queen accepted this marriage, she would have left precise instructions as to his succession: if Prince Charles becomes king, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will never have drawn it from Queen. Camilla would just have the right to appear on the official photos ...
