During their 21-year marriage, Camilla Parker Bowles, the queen consort, was reportedly left “crushed and unwanted” by her husband, Andrew Parker Bowles. Her actions allegedly spurred Camilla’s romance with King Charles II, a royal source claims, that she sought solace from a man who “needed her most.”
Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles were married in 1973.
Andrew Parker Bowles had ties to the royal family. His parents were friends of the Queen Mother, and Andrew is said to have served as a page during Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation. He and Camilla met in the late 1960s and dated on and off for several years.
Camilla met the then-Prince Charles in 1970 when she was 23 and he was 22. They began dating in 1971 after a mutual friend, Lucía Santa Cruz, introduced them. It was a brief affair and they parted ways a few months later when Charles joined the Royal Navy in 1971.
While Charles was away, Camilla resumed her relationship with Andrew. The couple became engaged in early 1973, and in July they were married. However, Charles and Camilla remained close, and the couple rekindled their friendship in the late 1970s.
Camilla Parker Bowles has reportedly been left “crushed and unwanted” by her husband’s alleged infidelities.
The Express reported that journalist Petronella Wyatt claimed that Camilla was “passionately in love with the roguish Parker Bowles.” However, her alleged infidelities reportedly led Camilla to seek acceptance outside of her marriage, leading to a “pivotal” romantic relationship between her and Charles.
Wyatt called Andrew the “Lothario of London”. She said: “Contrary to public perception of Camilla as a marriage destroyer, it was her husband who started having affairs.” These infidelities “left [Camilla] feeling crushed and unwanted” while they remained married and she raised their two children, Laura and Tom. Wyatt alleged that Camilla “seeked solace in a man who needed her most.”
Andrew even dated Charles’s sister, Princess Anne. However, their relationship never progressed further as he was a Catholic and therefore he could not marry Anne unless he converted. He remains friends with her to this day, and is godfather to her daughter Zara, Town & Country reported.
Carlos married Princess Diana; however, his love for Camilla remained.
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Charles proposed to Princess Diana and they married in 1981. The couple would have two sons, Princes William and Harry. Later, Diana learned that the deep connection between her husband and her former great love remained. Two weeks earlier, 20-year-old Diana walked down the aisle of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London; she found evidence that Charles’s connection to Camilla continued.
In Andrew Morton Diana: Her True Story, In Her Own Words, Diana recalled discovering that Charles had sent Camilla a bracelet engraved with the initials “F” and “G”, a reference to their nicknames, Fred and Gladys. She also recalled a second instance shortly after her marriage. “On our honeymoon, for example, we open our journals to discuss various things,” she said. “Two photos of Camilla come out.”
Charles told biographer Jonathan Dimbleby, in a 1994 interview, that he had remained faithful in his marriage to Diana “until it broke down irretrievably”. On December 9, 1992, it was announced that Diana and Charles had separated.
Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles divorced in 1995. That same year, Queen Elizabeth II recommended that Charles and Diana do the same. Their divorce was finalized in 1996, and Diana died in 1997. Charles and Camilla went public with their relationship in 1999, eventually marrying in 2005.
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