The difficult fight of the children of Lady Di with Camilla Parker
Jealousy over popularity and princes William and Harry's reluctance to have their stepmother crowned Queen of England, weave the worst intrigue in the royal house in recent times.
The most veteran and well-informed chroniclers about royalty in England suggest that the announcement of the marriage of the popular Prince Harry with the American actress Meghan Markle will heighten the tension between the side formed by the latter and his older brother William on the one hand, and Carlos , Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, on the other.
Carlos broke the record as the heir who has had to wait the longest to reign since he was appointed as such in 1958, and his closeness to 70 years deepens his frustration in this regard. Now, the landing of a beautiful, glamorous young woman with Meghan's Cinderella halo worries his court, as it would bring another popularity crisis for him, says Richard Kay, a widely read society columnist and correspondent for the royal house. long years.
The Duchess of Cambridge would be behind the plan for William to be crowned king instead of Charles, according to Camilla's side.
"The results of opinion polls about royals are based on how much exposure they have and Harry and Meghan will be the center of attention in the coming months. Today, perhaps, if they asked the British who should be the next king, Harry would surely win, ”Kay explained.
Something similar happened in 2010 with the engagement of William, Duke of Cambridge, and his wife Kate, with whose powerful image of stars Carlos has had no problem competing, influenced by Camilla, for whom this frees her from the attention of the public and the press, which he does not get used to. But, for the columnist, "with another show couple in focus, the prince will have to settle for the crumbs."
That the princes paraded with their stepmother at the queen's birthday celebrations in 2009 was a sign of the good relationship they had until they insisted on vindicating their mother's memory.
It is a sensitive matter for Carlos, who, knowing that his reign will be short, wants to be remembered as the heir to the most significant throne in the history of the royal house and a low popularity does not help him, as is being distanced from William and Harry.
Richard Kay relates that the relations between the son of Elizabeth II and the princes have had their ups and downs since Diana of Wales, their mother, died in 1997. As in the disastrous marriage of the latter with Charles, the Duchess, formerly known as Camilla Parker Bowles, she has been the bone of contention.
Queen Elizabeth II in her diamond jubilee in the middle of the two camps that today divide her family. On the left, Camilla and Carlos, who feel lost in the overwhelming favorable image of William, his wife Kate and Harry (right).
Little by little, she won over her stepchildren and when Carlos married her in 2005, they praised her and publicly admitted how happy she made their father. This year things have cooled down since William and Harry launched a campaign to vindicate the memory of Diana in the 20 years of her death. In the documentaries they commissioned, and in which they spoke, “they eliminated Carlos, only Diana, her work and her influence on them mattered,” Kay commented. Much less did they refer to Camilla. "They were expected to say something about the stepmother they once welcomed," the journalist said. To make matters worse, the renewed fervor for Diana led to the postponement of the transmission of a program about Camilla, for her 70 years.
On the other hand, a series of audio and video recordings came to light in which Diana spoke of how unhappy she was with Carlos for his infidelity with Camilla, a ghost that haunts the couple and has determined their low popularity among the British . Then, Carlos and his wife counterattacked with an authorized biography of her that left her as a victim and Diana as bad, liar, dishonest, hypocritical, very mentally deranged and exhibiting herself with her lovers in front of her children.
Carlos worries that his children will not support him in his desire for Camilla to be crowned Queen of England.
This, of course, did not please William and Harry. “They are no longer close to Camilla, the relationship has changed. They don't look kindly on her anymore, ”a friend of Diana's who visited them at Kensington Palace at that time revealed to Kay.
Charles and Diana of Wales with William and Harry at Kensington Palace in 1986. The memory that their mother was a noble humiliated by her father's infidelity with Camilla haunts the princes again.
A worsening of the crisis is seen to come because of the thorny issue of the title that Camilla will carry when Queen Elizabeth, 91, dies and Carlos takes the throne. In 2005, it was officially announced that she would be a princess consort, but now he wants her to be Queen of England, for which, Kay also assures, she requires the support of her children and it remains to be seen if they will agree after the statements about Diana in her biography . They might be softened by the fact that it is their father who provides the millions for them to lead a life worthy of princes. Harry, in particular, according to Kay, should keep in mind that were it not for Carlos' struggle to banish the stigma of divorcees from the royal house, he would not now be engaged to Meghan, who was once married.
The Daily Star, likewise, assures that the family quarrel resides in the fact that William, supported by Kate, wants to make reality the recurring conjecture that it would be he and not his father who would succeed Elizabeth II. This has enraged Camilla, who apparently has no ambition for the title of queen, but is not willing to give up sharing a bed and roof with a king.
The decline of Carlos
The once handsome prince turns 70 in 2018 but his court does not allow the slightest hint about it because he hates the idea that he is getting old, according to Mail Online. Much less now that he has lost the physical state that was his pride, he suffers from chronic back pain and his belly is growing. "The broken capillaries in his nose and cheeks give the unfair impression of someone raising the elbow," commented chronicler Richard Kay.
