As the couple mark 19 years together, we take a look back at the King and Queen’s relationship – from their dates in the 1970s to his cancer diagnosis this year
When the Charles married Camilla, almost eight years after the death of Princess Diana, the couple had experienced the outcry and ridicule from a large portion of the press. The Palace was worried about the backlash, but Charles’s determination was decisive for later developments.
So on April 9, 2005 – exactly 19 years ago – they married in a small, private ceremony in Windsor. While their marriage is in its 20th year, their relationship stretches back nearly five decades to the early 1970s.
Now, more than a year after their reign began, the lives of the king and queen are very different. Here we take a look back at their relationship and how it can withstand the challenges they face going forward.
Failed relationship the first time
Prince Charles and Camilla Sand are believed to have first met at a polo match in London in 1970. Camilla, the daughter of a distinguished military man, was in a relationship with Andrew Parker Bowles, a captain in The Blues and Royals regiment of the British Army.
Charles had officially received the title of Prince of Wales just a year earlier and had just finished Cambridge University and RAF training. Bonding over their shared love of polo and country activities, they dated for about two years before the prince left to join the Navy and Camilla rekindled her romance with Parker Bowles, whom she married a year later. in 1973.
Over the years, many have cited the current king’s military commitments as the reason the relationship did not progress.
But the Michael Colea former BBC royal correspondent and former spokesman for the late Mohamed Al Fayed, takes a different view.
“It would be wrong to say that he ‘missed the bus’ and that he could have married her then, but he hesitated.” he tells Sky News. “The fact was she loved Parker Bowles”. According to him, at that time Camilla would have been the “black sheep” for the Queen and her advisers, she would have been considered an unsuitable bride for the heir to the throne, because she had a… “past” (as they put it at the time) – meaning previous relationships before meeting Charles.
Their relationship over time
- 1967: Camilla begins an on-off relationship with Andrew Parker Bowles
- 1970: Karolos and Camila start dating
- 1972: Their relationship ends and Charles enlists in the Navy
- 1973: Camila and Andrew rekindle their romance and get married
- 1980: Charles begins dating Diana Spencer
- 1981: Charles and Diana marry
- 1989: “Tampongate” is recorded but not released
- 1992: Charles and Diana are separating, with no “divorce plans”.
- 1993: The ‘Tampongate’ tapes are published by an Australian magazine
- 1994: Charles admits his infidelity to Diana.
- 1995: Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles get a divorce and Diana gives her interview on ‘Newsnight’.
- 1996: Charles and Diana’s divorce is finalized.
- 1997: Diana dies in a car accident in Paris.
- 2000: Camilla meets the Queen
- 2005: Karolos and Camilla are engaged in February and married in April
- 2022: Charles and Camilla become king and queen
The “third person” in the marriage of Charles and Diana
In the years that followed, the young Prince Charles came under pressure to marry and began dating Lady Diana Spencer, the younger sister of his ex-girlfriend Sarah. By then, Camilla had given birth to two children, Tom in 1974 and Laura in 1978. Diana told Newsnight that despite still being married to her first husband, Camilla was the ‘third person’ at their wedding.
Their public appearance
The dissolution of Charles and Diana’s marriage dominated the headlines as one of the biggest news stories of its time.
The revelations came in the form of Andrew Morton’s biography of Diana, the princess’ BBC interview and Charles’ confession that he was unfaithful.
A month before Diana’s death in Paris in the summer of 1997, Charles threw a birthday party for Camilla at his country house in Gloucestershire. The late Queen did not attend, reportedly only agreeing to formally meet Camilla in 2000.
Over time, both King Charles and Queen Camilla have enjoyed a significant increase in public popularity. Although Charles and Camilla have been married for 19 years, they have been together for 50 years. It is a long and impressive love story – no doubt – that seems to have withstood time and adversity…
Source :Skai
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