Though intense, their initial romance was short-lived.
Charles’ decision to join the Royal Navy strained their bond as did the public’s perception that the onetime receptionist lacked several necessary attributes.
She had no royal lineage in her blood and, “She wasn’t a virgin,” royal biographer Chris Wilson told Dateline, “and back in the early 1970s, weird as it seems, we wanted to have a Princess of Wales who’d never been to bed with anyone else.”
Author and Camilla pal William Shawcross argued, however, that their main issue was she simply fell for future husband Andrew Parker Bowles: “I know that she loved Andrew very much.”
While Camilla may have been enamored, Charles—serving in the Caribbean at the time—felt crushed when he learned his former paramour was set to wed.
Detailed 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.”
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