When Charles and Camilla’s relationship first came to light, the couple faced public criticism with many blaming then-Ms Parker Bowles for the dissolution of Charles’s marriage with Diana, Princess of Wales.
Once described as the “most hated woman in Britain”, Camilla was vilified and, for a while, she and Charles conducted their relationship in private.
Penny Junor, royal biographer and author of The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown, wrote about the Queen Consort’s strength shortly after the death of Queen Elizabeth II.
“She [Camilla] was a very secure child growing up,” Ms Junor wrote for the Daily Mirror in September. “She’s had a hell of a lot of knocks along the way as an adult, but her foundations were rock solid. That is what enables her to be so strong.
“She is an incredibly brave woman, too. You have to be jolly brave to come through the way she has – from the affair with Charles, her own divorce, the intimate tapes of her conversations with Charles being made public, the death of Diana, and to marry Charles after all that.”
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