![]() ![]() In the case of 75-year-old Camilla, however, the opposite is true. When the 26-year-old Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, people knew next to nothing about her even had the public been less respectful then, and less religious, there was never any danger the holy solemnity of the occasion would be sullied with thoughts of her earthly existence, let alone with gossip and scandal. Multiply this figure by four, and you’re only just over – by 16 years, to be exact – the age of the crown Camilla will wear at the Coronation at Westminster Abbey on 6 May (Mary of Teck, the wife of George V, bought the coronet in question at the jeweller Garrard & Co in 1911).īut time, in this case, equates to words: hundreds of thousands of them. In 2005, when Prince Charles announced his second engagement, he’d known Camilla Parker Bowles for more than 32 years, during which time she had played several different roles in his life: girlfriend, friend and adviser, mistress (she enlisted for the latter job twice). ![]() But these things are relative, of course. B efore she married, the Daily Mail liked to refer to the current Princess of Wales as “Waity Katie” William’s proposal was, it was thought, rather a long time in coming. ![]()
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