I wish it my worst enemy: the story of ‘the rottweiler' Camilla Parker Bowles

Royalty Prince Charles (70), and Camilla (71), the duchess of Cornwall, have just launched their fourteenth wedding anniversary celebrated. For the occasion they shared on Instagram a photo of them as a couple, a black-and-witportret that by the wedding photographer of Harry and Meghan was captured. About the torque is over the last 50 years a lot of ink was shed. And especially about Camilla, the woman who had a scandalous affair polite with the prince, then who was married to his beloved princess Diana. This is her story.

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Camilla and Charles met each other in 1971 at a party. They were by a common friend suggested and felt immediately a connection. A year later, asked Camilla to him indirectly in marriage by reference to the affair of king Edward VII and Alice Keppel: “My great-grandmother was your betovergrootvaders mistress. "What do you think?” But the then 23-year-old shy prince Charles received from his uncle, Lord Mountbatten, the command no hard promises to girls to do it.

While Charles four months in Australia was, left Camilla at the marriage questions by major Andrew Parker Bowles, a friend and fellow officer of Charles. The prince was left “with a feeling of emptiness”. Charles was aghast when he heard the news, but it wasn't. He was in 1975, even the godfather of Tom, the oldest of her two children.

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the End of the seventies they were often seen together. In 1980, accompanied Camilla the crown prince during an official visit to Zimbabwe for the celebration of the independence. Camilla and Charles wanted was already full for their relationship, but that was beyond the control of the British royal family counted. Camilla had no aristocratic background, and she had ‘a reputation’. In no case should they be associated with the royal family. A year later, married Charles with Diana Spencer.