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Camilla Rosemary Mountbatten Windsor, duches of Cornwell and Rothesay was born in London on July 7th 1947 as Camilla Rosemary Shand. | Camilla Rosemary Mountbatten Windsor, duches of Cornwell and Rothesay was born in London on July 7th 1947 as Camilla Rosemary Shand. Nowadays, she's 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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Biography
Camilla Rosemary Mountbatten Windsor, duches of Cornwell and Rothesay was born in London on July 7th 1947 as Camilla Rosemary Shand. Nowadays, she's 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 to the Queen’s Gate School in South Kensington, a school forhigher class' daughters. There she learned to cook and to create flower arrangements. Since her sixteens birthday she attended some public schools in France and Switzerland and finished her apprenticeship.
She first met Prince Charles in 1972 at a Polo-tournament. Immediately they got along, share the same interests and the love for nature. But the Royal House didn't accept Camilla as Charles 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 publicity (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 failiure of Charles' and Diana's marriage. The population of Great Britain declared her to be the 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 tragic 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 for the first time to Camilla's and Charles' marriage. Due to this facts, Camilla will never reach the same position as Diana in the royal family.
Sources
http://www.whoswho.de/templ/te_bio.php?PID=2343&RID=1 ; 4.05.2010, 19:17