Explosive biography of Camilla reveals details of affair with Prince Charles
An explosive new biography of Camilla has lifted the lid on the love affair between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.
The book, The Duchess: The Untold Story, written Britain’s top royal author Penny Junor promises to tell Camilla’s side of the story of the first time.
According to extracts published by the Daily Mail, Prince Charles was left “heartbroken” when Camilla married her first husband Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973.
Andrew and Camilla on their wedding day in 1973.
When she wrote to Charles about her engagement, the letter “broke the prince’s heart”, prompting him to “fire off anguished letters of his own to his nearest and dearest” seeking their counsel and comfort, writes Junor.
“It seemed to him particularly cruel, he wrote in one letter, that after ‘such a blissful, peaceful and mutually happy relationship’, fate had decreed that it should last a mere six months."
Camilla and Charles had met two years prior and the attraction was “immediate”, the book claims.
Juror says Charles loved that she smiled with her eyes as well as her mouth, and laughed at the same silly things as he did.
“He also liked that she was so natural and easy and friendly, not in any way overawed by him, not fawning or sycophantic. In short, he was very taken with her, and after that first meeting he began ringing her up,” the extract reads.
However, she was not deemed “sufficiently aristocratic” enough to be the future king’s wife and she was not a virgin, which was considered a prerequisite at that time.
Junor claims Charles made one “last ditch attempt” to convince Camilla not to marry Andrew before the July 4 wedding.
He wrote her a letter begging her not to go through with it, but as we know the plea fell on deaf ears.
The book is set to be released on June 29 and will offer insight into Camilla’s side of the story about the infamous affair.