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Camilla Rosemary Mountbatten Windsor, | Full name Camilla Rosemary Mountbatten Windsor, Duchess of Cornwall and Rothesay. Born 7 July 1947 in London as Camilla Rosemary Shand. Nowadays, she is known as Camilla Parker Bowles and the wife of Prince Charles. | ||
Her father, Major Bruce Shand, was the Vice Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex and still is a very eminent respectable wine merchant. | Her father, Major Bruce Shand, was the Vice Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex and still is a very eminent respectable wine merchant. | ||
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Camilla grows up in Sussex with her two younger siblings (a sister Annabel and brother Mark), very sheltered and prosperous. | Camilla grows up in Sussex with her two younger siblings (a sister Annabel and brother Mark), very sheltered and prosperous. | ||
When she was five years old she attended the Dickensian Drumbells School. At the age of ten she attended | When she was five years old she attended the [[Charles Dickens|Dickensian]] Drumbells School. At the age of ten she attended the Queen’s Gate School in South Kensington, a school for upper-class daughters. There she learned to cook and to create flower arrangements. Since her sixteenth birthday she attended some public schools in France and Switzerland and finished her education. | ||
She first met Prince Charles in 1972 at a Polo | She first met Prince Charles in 1972 at a Polo tournament. Immediately they got along, shared the same interests and the love for nature. But the Royal House did not accept Camilla as Charles's wife. He had to marry a virgin (->So he married Princess Diana in 1981). Also Camilla married while Charles went to the Royal Navy in 1973. Her husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, was godson of Queen Elizabeth II. Andrew and Camilla get two children: Tom *1975 and Laura *1979. | ||
During the marriage of Charles and Diana, Camilla and the Prince of Wales still had an affair which was well known to the | During the marriage of Charles and Diana, Camilla and the Prince of Wales still had an affair which was well known to the public (e.g. piquant [[Camillagate|telephone calls]] printed in the yellow press around the world). The Royal House accused her to be the main reason for the failure of Charles and Diana's marriage. Supposedly she was most hated woman in the country. | ||
In 2004 Queen Elizabeth II | Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles were divorced in 1995 - Charles and Diana in 1997, shortly before Diana died in a car accident in Paris. For this reason the Royal House's efforts concerning Camilla's new role (on Charles' side) failed. | ||
In 2004 Queen Elizabeth II agreed to Camilla and Charles' marriage. They married April 2005. | |||
===Sources=== | |||
http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?PID=2343&RID=1 ; 4.05.2010, 19:17 | |||
Latest revision as of 17:31, 26 April 2021
Full name Camilla Rosemary Mountbatten Windsor, Duchess of Cornwall and Rothesay. Born 7 July 1947 in London as Camilla Rosemary Shand. Nowadays, she is known as Camilla Parker Bowles and the wife of Prince Charles.
Her father, Major Bruce Shand, was the Vice Lord Lieutenant of East Sussex and still is a very eminent respectable wine merchant. Her mother is Rosalind Cubitt.
Camilla grows up in Sussex with her two younger siblings (a sister Annabel and brother Mark), very sheltered and prosperous. When she was five years old she attended the Dickensian Drumbells School. At the age of ten she attended the Queen’s Gate School in South Kensington, a school for upper-class daughters. There she learned to cook and to create flower arrangements. Since her sixteenth birthday she attended some public schools in France and Switzerland and finished her education.
She first met Prince Charles in 1972 at a Polo tournament. Immediately they got along, shared the same interests and the love for nature. But the Royal House did not accept Camilla as Charles's wife. He had to marry a virgin (->So he married Princess Diana in 1981). Also Camilla married while Charles went to the Royal Navy in 1973. Her husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, was godson of Queen Elizabeth II. Andrew and Camilla get two children: Tom *1975 and Laura *1979.
During the marriage of Charles and Diana, Camilla and the Prince of Wales still had an affair which was well known to the public (e.g. piquant telephone calls printed in the yellow press around the world). The Royal House accused her to be the main reason for the failure of Charles and Diana's marriage. Supposedly she was most hated woman in the country.
Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles were divorced in 1995 - Charles and Diana in 1997, shortly before Diana died in a car accident in Paris. For this reason the Royal House's efforts concerning Camilla's new role (on Charles' side) failed.
In 2004 Queen Elizabeth II agreed to Camilla and Charles' marriage. They married April 2005.
Sources
http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?PID=2343&RID=1 ; 4.05.2010, 19:17