Queen Elizabeth called Camilla "an evil woman" (after drinking martinis)
"Camilla is an evil woman": this is why Queen Elizabeth did not want to accept Prince Charles's relationship with the Duchess of Cornwall
What does Queen Elizabeth think of Camilla Parker Bowles and her relationship with Prince Charles?
Nothing good, according to a new unauthorized biography written by British investigative journalist Tom Bower, Rebel Prince: The Power and Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles.
In some extracts published in the Daily Mail, a not very idyllic relationship emerges (to put it mildly) between the sovereign and the allola lover of the heir to the throne.
In particular, the tension would reach its peak when Charles asked His Majesty to welcome Camilla into the royal family after Diana's death.
Here's what emerged from the pages of the book.
Elizabeth II's response to Prince Charles
Summer 1997. Diana recently passed away.
The world mourns the death of Princess Triste, but her ex-husband is already thinking about the future and asks her mother, Queen Elizabeth, to be able to introduce Camilla Parker Bowles into the family.
Her Majesty's response, however, is rather brutal.
According to what we read in Bower's book, Elizabeth had drunk "a few martinis too many and to Carlo's surprise she replied angrily that she would not forgive his adultery, nor would she forgive Camilla for not leaving him alone and allowing him to rebuild his marriage" .
Queen Elizabeth's opinion on Camilla
Bower claims that on that occasion the Queen called Camilla "an evil woman" and added to the dose by saying "she doesn't want to have anything to do with her."
Carlo could not help but take note of his mother's will. Without his blessing, in fact, he would never have been able to marry Camilla.
For this reason, at that juncture, he returned to his beloved "in tears" informing her of the response.
Carlo's paranoia
An image of Carlo emerges from the biography as a man who has been deeply in crisis for years, who felt isolated and encircled throughout the divorce from Diana.
Not only. The Prince was also convinced that his brother Andrew wanted to replace him in the race to the throne and that Lady D.'s statements were part of a plan to destroy her image so that it was impossible for the Queen to give him the scepter of King.
All against Carlo
The Queen was not alone in not wanting to accept Camilla.
Even the Queen Mother and Prince Philip were against the relationship, with the latter in particular who tried to dissuade his son on several occasions, even going so far as to write him letters.
Carlo, however, was determined to go his own way and began to put into practice a series of strategies to insert Camilla without his family being able to object.
Like when, on the occasion of a dinner at Buckingham Palace which he knew the Queen would not attend, he invited Camilla, but did not write the name at her table.
The woman arrived at the last moment, in time to sit in front of him.
The step back of Elizabeth II
The turning point came in 2002, with the death of the Queen Mother, one of the people who was most opposed to Camilla's entry into the family.
On that occasion Elisabetta had already decided to prevent her son's lover from attending the funeral, but changed her mind after an interview with Carlo on TV.
The marriage of Carlo and Camilla
The couple gradually managed to be accepted as such, until they got married in 2005.
Also in this case there was no lack of controversy.
According to Bower, in fact, since both of their marriages were shipwrecked due to the relationship, Carlo and Camilla could not have married in church, so they celebrated the rite in the Windsor Town Hall, but managed to obtain a small blessing from the Archbishop in the Chapel of St. George.
The Queen's spite
The fact that she consented to the marriage does not mean that Elizabeth had completely changed her mind.
In fact, it seems that His Majesty avoided inviting Camilla to dinners and ceremonies until the eve of the wedding and that he said that there was "too little Welsh gold left to be able to forge the wedding rings."
Not only that, it was always by his will that the reception was restricted and without too much pomp.
For the duration of the party, Elizabeth did not speak even once to the new arrival in the family.
«Camilla kept repeating 'I can't believe it'».
The soft line
Since then, the queen has publicly softened her stance on marriage and her daughter-in-law.
He invited Camilla to join her at various events, including the Windsor Horse Show, where the two women, who share an interest in horses, were seen chatting amiably.
