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this channel is part of the history hit Network [Music] on a visit to Santiago in Chile Camilla Parker Bowles Hunter of foxes and Mistress of the Prince of Wales found that she had unexpectedly become the Quarry it was a predicament well known to her late rival Princess Diana she was hounded and harassed wherever she went Dinah would pay a terrible price for her Fame now the tables are turned six thousand miles from home Camilla finds that she is now the center of attention [Music] Diana manipulated the Press but often resented unwelcome attention [Music] the chase soon lost its attraction hey Diana often needed help from throw off the press a few years later Camilla II needed VIP protection Camilla secretly visited her old friend Lucia Santa Cruz Lucia introduced her to Prince Charles in the early 70s and thus began a tantalizing Saga of love and betrayal Highgrove country home of the Prince of Wales in July 1997 it was the setting for a lavish 50th birthday party for Camilla such an honor exposed her to a new level of public scrutiny shouldn't think Prince Charles got the slightest clue what it could possibly be like to be Camilla how could he the whole rarefied way in which he was brought up the rarified way in which he lives [Music] in 1992 Camilla was revealed as Charles's mistress in a shattering book written by Andrew Morton to whom Diana had dictated the story of her unhappy marriage following publication Camilla was invited into the Royal fold at a polo match but Camilla became the most reviled woman in Britain kimla has a thankless role to play It's one has he has to have huge sympathy for this for this woman because she's always going to bask in Dana's Shadow she's always going to be seen as the wicked stepmother figure of fairy tales therefore that's a very very difficult image to change when you come to public acceptance Charles met Camilla at a polo match when they were both single Polo a sport for the wealthy had an appeal for seductive girls as well as for officers and gentlemen Charles would fill in his diary with Polo fixtures before his public duties he enjoyed the physical Thrill of the game it was the perfect social environment for a prince used to having his own way until the tragedy of his divorce and Diana's death forced him to review his life what has changed Charles fundamentally actually is Donna's death I think he is an enormously changed man I think that's thrown him into an incredible state of the soul I mean he's analyzing the mistakes he's made he's taking on the grief of his sons he's feeding all the guilt about what he did that was it that's huge baggage the birth of their sons William in 1982 and Harry two years later added the demands of Parenthood to a failing marriage shortly after this majorcan holiday with the Spanish royal family in 1986 Charles went off alone to Balmoral and to his mistress Camilla keeping up the false image of a happy family placed a great strain on Diana in 1987 they were apart for three months Charles ignored press reports until the queen intervened he blamed the chill in the marriage on Diana's illness that was Charles's Charles's great downfall was but was the belief that he he could actually put out one kind of one view of his character that this was the man who was the loving caring man for nursing the wife through a a very difficult period of time when in fact the truth was totally different and he actually believed that he'd get away with it Diana was told to conceal the marriage Rift for the sake of Queen and Country Charles II pretended all was well I'm quite sure that as in the past has happened and this is a history of the royal family going back to 300 years that the prince was expected to have a mistress what happened I think with Diana was that she said no to hell with this I'm not uh I'm not going to do this I'm not going to lay down under uh committer or indeed lay down under Charles uh but I'm I'm going to uh I'm going to be somebody who's my own woman and if he's going to do that sort of thing I'm going to fight back right too in 1990 on their first royal visit to Hungary recently liberated from communism Dinah was already contemplating revenge against her husband after the Morton book where Diana had expressed her worries about the relationship of Charles and Camilla that he knew perfectly well that all the planets Spin Doctors had been saying that there wasn't anything at all and this was all part of Diana's fantasy well they couldn't possibly have said that without his knowledge and approval for him then to come out and say he had done it was more than hypocrisy I mean it was an inhuman thing to say about your wife who clearly was under very considerable stress over this marriage I said well as a nonsense she's not very well you know it is 300 years of arrogant inbreeding and getting your own way that created that because I don't think he's a bad man but I do think that he's a man who's just been brought up in a tradition which we are no longer prepared to accept as something that is realistic [Music] to A Thousand Years of monarchy his position and Royal upbringing set him apart waiting for the throne isolated him further his Destiny was dictated by a family tradition begun by Queen Victoria and continued by her grandson George V what happened though in the beginning of the 20th century with George V and Queen Mary was that there was a decision I think quite deliberately taken by George V that the monarchy should adapt itself to democracy what we're going to do we're going to symbolize the one thing that all our people have in common now the thing that everybody had in common in the until the 1960s was family you all belong to a family you're a product of a family you were all going to get married very few people didn't get married and so on and the house of Windsor did this and he did it extraordinarily successfully George V and Queen Mary and later on George VI and Queen Elizabeth now the Queen Mother very very successfully embodied typical middle class Bourgeois Family Values it was a Bourgeois monarchy but some of the children rebelled notably the eldest son Edward the Prince of Wales he defied his parents Family Values with a string of married mistresses there was Thelma furnace and Frida Dudley Ward and Wallace Simpson for whom he gave up the throne now there are always exceptions there was the exception of course of Edward VII who was driven from the throne because he wouldn't fulfill this particular set of values he would not fulfill this image of the family monarchy but the trouble is you see once you set yourself that standard if you then Veer from it you suffer and you suffer terribly behind a facade of Pomp and pageantry the royal family tried to conceal its internal divisions and the behavior of its more Wayward members they might have decided from the 1960s well why don't we admit that the family is no longer as powerful a symbol as it used to be you know the divorce rates are increasing there are more broken homes or more illegitimate children let's sort of shift the image a little bit and they didn't what they did instead they constantly hyped it they hyped it within the royal family they hyped it supremely of course with the marriage of Charles and Diana their marriage was sold as a fairy tale it was perceived to have said we are morally virtuous and then its conduct was discovered not to be morally virtuous and that charge of hypocrisy was thrown at it and it has stuck and they will find it very difficult to get rid of it Camilla was also following a family tradition of a special type of Royal Service her great-grandmother Alice keppel had been King Edward's mistress she was a very vivacious very attractive very Charming woman very sensuous kind of woman there was Italian blood in her family and so in a way she caught his eye and he never really looked back he was very taken with her she was the perfect King's mistress King Edward VII was a very restless very difficult man she knew exactly how to handle him so she was as I say the perfect mistress for a king for a man like him Edward VII you know the man with with so many mistresses that were allegedly sort of rules as to how the mistress should behave and one of them sort of explained how a mistress was supposed to behave that you kurtzed first called him sir and then jumped into bed there was actually a sort of Court etiquette for the mistress in those days there was no Scandal about that kind of thing the general public didn't know about it at all if photographs of them appeared in British newspapers then her face would be airbrushed out you would see her hat you'd see her dress but you wouldn't actually see who it was in that way the newspapers were very discreet about it Alice couple played the perfect wife but rumors surrounded the birth of her second child there were two daughters it was Violet and there was Sonia and as the second daughter Sonia was born after Alice keppel had met then Prince of Wales it's quite likely that he was her father no one can know this kind of thing for sure but I think it is more than likely that the future with the seventh was Sonic keppel's father if true then Sonia passed on Royal Blood to her granddaughter Camilla born in 1947 the year Alice keppel died Camilla was the first child of Sonia's daughter Rosalind and major Bruce Shand unlike Charles Camilla had a happy childhood with her parents sister and brother they lived a Charmed Life of the country set in their comfortable former rectory the lanes near Lewis in Sussex Camilla enjoyed ponies parties and fun in the swimming pool after attending a local Preparatory School Camilla completed her education at the elite Queensgate School in Kensington [Music] like many of her classmates Camilla became a debutante in search of a wealthy and important husband her eventual marriage to a courtier would bring her close to the Royal circle and a specially close to Prince Charles the Prince of Wales was then a young Bachelor searching for a bride he could not confide in his parents and needed an older and wiser figure to be his soul mate his great uncle Lord man Batten filled that role in 1977 Royal Jubilee year the queen and Prince Philip were occupied with royal duties Matt Batten took the opportunity to guide the young prince Charles often visited Broadlands mountbatten's Hampshire home his granddaughter Amanda nachbowl was considered a potential Royal bride Davina Sheffield was another of Charles's girlfriend he was also linked with actress Susan George and the aristocratic Lady Jane Wellesley there was no shortage of girlfriends including Sabrina Guinness but lady Tryon Kanga was a married confidante who became a rival to Camilla in fact several married women became involved with Charles but Camilla occupied a special place in his heart she was more than a lover giving him the comfort and warmth he had been denied in childhood [Music] Charles and Camilla began their long Affair in October 1972 after an evening out at the exclusive London Club Annabelle's in the heart of Mayfair Camilla was a wealthy girl about town she enjoyed all the freedom of a young liberated woman of the 60s she was already experienced with men one of the most famous romances in history started in an unremarkable block of flats in Stackhouse on kundi street where Camilla lived at the time at Broadlands the sophisticated Camilla was enchanted by the immature Young Prince Charles said Society diarist Roy strong was Earnest with a boyish grin and a non-sophisticated sense of humor Frankish thoughtful kind and shy he began a naval career that would complete his formal education and take him away from the girl he loved he would be thousands of miles from home on the high seas as a serving officer when he heard that Camilla was engaged to Andrew Parker Bowles they had a high society wedding in July 1973. Camilla had won the most handsome man in her social sphere Charles feared he had lost her forever really the big mistake was not to have married her in the first place that of course has been his life all the way through is is um he's not been able to make up his own mind he's valid and dithered listened to the Duke of Edinburgh disaster for anybody I would have thought no other human being lives like that and and unfortunately it was his undoing very early on should have married her then the Parker Bowles lived at Bolly hide Manor in Wiltshire to be close by Charles bought Highgrove under the cover of Royal engagements Camilla turned up regularly Charles's relationship with a married woman was acceptable in Royal circles [Music] Charles and Camilla also met at Hall place the Hampshire Home of Camilla's grandmother Sonja the probable daughter of Edward VII to now Charles's innocent fiancee Lady Diana Spencer she knew nothing at first of his secret life an inexperienced 19 year old Diana had accepted Camilla's friendship at face value no one would tell her the truth the royal family and her own relatives remained silent about Charles's mistress as her relationship with Charles progressed Diana grew suspicious of Camilla's influence over him Charles left for a pre-arranged tour of Australia shortly after their engagement in 1981. Diana's distress was passed off as the anxiety of a young girl facing the absence of her future husband however The Awful Truth was beginning to intrude on her happiness Diana had heard Charles take a last-minute phone call from Camilla before they left his office in Buckingham Palace knowing that Camilla was in constant contact with Charles Diana's tears fell as his plane took off in Australia Charles and Camilla's calls were bugged the incident was dismissed as a hoax but the Press was suspicious when Charles entertained a blonde assumed to be Diana on the Royal Train in sidings near the parkable's home it made the front page news there were official denials over Diana's presence she knew it wasn't her and must have suspected the woman was Camilla and his love for Charles blinded her to reality and in July 1981 Charles and Diana were married at the wedding of the century Diana was the most beautiful bride you could ever imagine said a commentator but Diana knew Charles's Secret few noticed the mounted escort Camilla's husband Andrew Parker Bowles head of the royal household Cavalry An Officer and a Gentleman his discretion was assured after two nights at Broadlands Charles's former love nest the newlyweds honeymooned on Britannia Charles took with him Souvenirs of Camilla the time of the honeymoon was both a romantic time but it was also a time of extreme bitterness and and painful memories there was one occasion on the Royal Britannia where she opened Charles's Diaries and two pictures of Camilla fluttered to the floor Diana later informed Morton her biographer that she had suffered dreadfully from bulimia on her honeymoon Cruise she blamed Charles's infatuation with his mistress Diana's obsession with Camilla grew to the point of psychological illness at Balmoral later that summer Diana hid her mental state from the cameras she knew her husband could not give her the love she craved and that he would always hunger for the woman he could not have [Music] Prince Charles has a really very interesting chart because everything you look at in regard to women and relationship says I want what I can't have I have this romantic dream and that I want what's just Out Of Reach again he shares that with a lot of men he's not very different there so it may be that had Camilla been the wife that he would have naturally looked for something that would give him just that extra sense of if only I could have this person and my life would be perfect what is fascinating is that um Camilla's son and her the and her Moon the two very key components in a in an astrological chart or in exactly the same sign as Diana so I mean you have some very similar connections from chart to chart so I often felt that had he married Camilla Diana might have been the great love of his life foreign did not invite Camilla to Balmoral her home in Scotland it was left to Charles's grandmother the queen mother to entertain Camilla and her husband at her home at Burke Hall a convenient location close by for Charles and Camilla to meet Diana believed that she had allowed a special telephone line to be installed so that Charles could phone Camilla without fear of being bugged in time Diana grew to distrust and dislike the Queen Mother outwardly for The Prince and Princess of Wales the Royal show went on their dancing displays Enchanted Australians first in 1983 and in 1985 when Diana stunned onlookers by wearing a royal heirloom as a jeweled headband and again in 1988 later Charles returned home to Camilla and the more traditional role of a prince with a mistress I think Charles's problem is that he appeared early on to be a very new age Modern Man in touch with the values of his own generation as he's grown older it's become clearer that he's actually a very traditional Royal and in this department he's a very traditional Royal in that he famously said to Diana do you expect me to be the first prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress when she started kicking up a fuss about Camilla Diana turned out to be not the brainless bimbo that he thought he'd married but a Thoroughly Modern Woman Who stamped her foot publicly and became a potent icon for feminists suddenly but also rather traditional woman in that she wanted a strong family unit with strong family values he was betraying both those things and I think as the first prince of Wales to grow up in the mass media age the intrusive age he's not just out of touch with his own times he always has been but he's trying to live an impossible contradiction in an age when he just can't get away with that so I don't think the deception would be any easier now in an age when people openly live with people who not their wives only one of those people wants to be head of the Church of England that's Prince Charles and he has to live by those rules before Prince Andrew's wedding to Sarah Ferguson in 1986 Charles dismissed Diana's bodyguard for falling in love with his wife yet he and Camilla were having a full-blown affair Royal rejoicing hid the family's concern Charles and Diana hardly spoke during the entire wedding celebrations and came out of Buckingham Palace separately to wave off the Yorks holding page Boy William Diana knew that Charles was lost to her behind the joy for her friend Fergie now a royal bride Diner was already Consulting astrologer Penny Thornton as she feared for her own future she suspected Charles met Camilla in France Spain turkey Switzerland and in Italy Florence was where Diana believed Charles and Camilla Revisited Royal history at her great-grandmother Alice keppel's secret Villa a gift from King Edward VII Camilla took art lessons to share Charles's passion for painting she encouraged him he took pride in his results it was an ideal partnership maybe if Charles and Camilla were to go on not being able to live openly together but seeing each other most of the time and having periods of absence from each other they would be able to sustain this very satisfactorily for them both they they would always have this rather romantic passionate Edge to the relationship at a birthday party for Camilla's sister held at only Lodge home of Lady Annabelle Goldsmith Diana confronted her rival [Music] he expected to go on his own Diner insisted on coming and they went in the car together and she remembers him as being very uncomfortable and so she confronted Camilla she asked her about about the relationship Camilla was evasive and from that moment onwards all Charles's friends and that what she called dismissively the Highgrove said continue to perpetuate this lie that Charles and Camilla were just friends in June 1990 the dangers of Polo were evident when the prince and enthusiastic player fell heavily sustaining a badly broken arm that needed surgery Diana continued the charade of the caring wife visiting her husband in hospital and taking him home to recuperate at Highgrove once there Diana left and Camilla nurse Charles the broken bone refused to heal and caused Charles such pain that another operation was necessary a specialist had to reset the injured arm Camilla secretly visited Charles in hospital keep moving back please Diana spent much of her time at the hospital meeting other patients but afterwards she repeated the practice performance of a dutiful wife aware that the cameras were clicking and the Press were covering Charles's departure concealing a shy marriage in which Camilla was the third party they went home Camilla would enter through highgroves Gardens the moment Diana had gone Diana lost her home as well as our husband to Camilla I mean I think a lot of people who not only cared about Dana but cared about the whole notion of the royal family being able to choose a 19 year old Bride for the future king and have her uh give birth to his children and then be so unceremoniously dumped and have her heart broken in some ways we understand why Prince Charles did what he did he had to have a wife he had to have children he couldn't have the woman he wanted but she Camilla she was you know a country housewife bringing up her children she's the one who should have stepped aside and said oh no um I can't do this to this girl I can't do this you know because I'm decent and human and I can't watch this girl suffering and becoming suicidal and mentally unstable and ruin her life and her children's lives um Camille is the one who should have stepped aside eventually servants revealed details of Charles's conduct Camilla had destroyed the fairy tale Royal Mistresses are exceedingly unpopular there have been some popular Royal Mistresses but it's very very they're very very rare Royal Mistresses are unpopular first first because they're marriage Breakers and certainly most women in a population will always side against somebody who is seen as a marriage breaker Diana had an affair with guards Officer James Hewitt over a period of five years she fantasized about breaking free from her marriage but at that stage it was an Impossible Dream there were other loves too possibly seven during her lifetime all hidden beneath a veneer of Duty Diana took her public position seriously she performed the traditional roles like being colonel in Chief of the royal Hampshire regiment with Grace and with a smile she was the ideal Choice as Princess of Wales and future Queen Diana delighted in criticisms of Camilla who was older badly groomed a much less attractive than herself when you see her in the flesh she she does have something special she's got strong features she may not be a conventional Beauty the great endearing thing about her is she doesn't care anyway you know she's got a bag on and she's got her hair all funny like a stab sofa look and then she's got her Wellies on I mean one tabloid newspaper recently put a picture of Camilla beside a horse and said which one would you rather marry um which one would you rather go to bed with she has had to put up with some brutal publicity as in America once and saw a television show where someone described her as looking like a bag full of spanners which baffled the Americans because they don't have spanners over there but anyway she has had to put up with some pretty gross insults about her looks I think Charles himself is quite sloppy in his personal habits he's very bad with paperwork but of course he has a support system he has two valets paid for by the state too clean up his clothes after him and wash his socks and make sure he's got clean Underpants every day and help him get dressed in the mornings so maybe he quite likes uh amid the formal World in which he lives this kind of informality that she brings to his life Charles and Camilla enjoyed secret rendezvous all over Britain they regularly met at country houses such as garabee Hall in Yorkshire home of the Earl of Halifax Eaton Hall the Cheshire estate of The Dowager Duchess of Westminster was another a familiar retreat was northmore then the Norfolk stud Farm of Hugh and Emily van cutsen close friends protected the couple's privacy [Music] the famously elegant stately home of the Earl Encounters of Shelburne bowood was a favorite meeting place Earl Shelburne challenged newspaper reports of their visits to protect Charles psychologically it's very important to have a group of friends who will see you as a couple and acknowledge you as a couple and give you not just the emotional and psychological support but also lend perhaps homes and opportunities where everything can be kept in it's concealed situation primarily so as not to upset anyone else it's not so just so much deceitful it's protective I think behind the fences of Camilla's home middlewick house Charles was a regular visitor on one occasion the Press got wind that the heir to the throne was staying over huddled under rugs in the back seat of a chauffeur-driven car Prince of Darkness was forced to experience the indignity of a hasty Escape Into the Night impervious to this kind of evidence Charles's office continued to undermine Diana's credibility we were being told that Charles and Diana were trying to get their life back together again and this was after the Andrew Morton book had first revealed Diana's worries about Camilla and before the actual breakup so they were due to go on a royal tour of Korea and we were asked to hold off any kind of criticism of Charles and Diana meanwhile the Spin Doctors at the palace were saying that Charles was trying to help Diana through this very difficult period of time that she was having and that all this uh fantasy that she was having about Camilla being Charles's mistress was subject was the problem of her illness and her bulimia so they were all bad-mouthing her like mad a scheduled royal visit to Korea in early November 1992 went ahead but the tour was a mistake the couple offended their hosts with their personal animosity towards one another quite simply Charles and Diana could not stand each other's presence it was the most disastrous public relations exercise and it was quite clear that the two loathed each other I mean you look at the pictures and they were called the glums and all sorts of awful things [Music] the poisonous atmosphere between the couple meant that they were never allowed to represent Britain abroad again the rift between them was now Beyond repair and disguise [Music] we decided that the time was to come out and say that this is actually the truth of this relationship that all the bad-mouthing of Diana and the alleged fantasy of Camilla she was in fact true it was wasn't in fact true and that she was right and that the palace were putting out the most terrible smoke screen um no doubt they they didn't believe it but um that uh Charles in fact had been doing all the things that Diana said the Mirror newspaper exposed the story taped telephone call between Charles and Camilla made in 1989. [Music] 50 [Music] it pretty quickly became clear that this was indeed Charles and Camilla it was what the person that brought it to us said it was I thought that it was actually a very good imitation of a caricature of the Prince of Wales which indeed it was because he was caricaturing himself the couple talked in Intimate language and made private jokes that showed Charles had a Schoolboy mentality I think you're going to come back as a pair of knickers people have not forgotten that appalling thing about wanting to come back as a Tampax that's going to stick to him like various aspects of the Monica Lewinsky Affair will always stick to Clinton I think there's a lot of parallels between Charles and the Clinton episode the president of the United States like the Future King who's also going to be head of the church is supposed to and expected to set some kind of moral example and both of them have suffered enormously on that front they've both been sorely embarrassed by publication of transcripts of very CDC me tapes in Charles's case it's something that he's going to find very hard to shed outwardly nothing changed at middlewick house but Camilla's Secrets continued to unravel in the Press it seemed such an invasion of privacy but it was quite clear that these two had a tremendously sexy and passionate relationship and that and she was able to touch those parts of childhood perhaps other people hadn't been able to reach which is his mind his eroticism and all that kind of thing so they clearly have a very very strong physical sexual base and that's a you know a wonderful Factor friend an enduring factor for a long-term relationship Diana feared that she would be divorced against her wishes and lose her children to the royal family she took the unwise step of going public in a shattering television interview she confessed to an affair with major James Hewitt but blamed Camilla for the breakdown of her marriage although Charles had spent a lifetime dictated by Duty and ceremony he too had destroyed the Mystique of the monarchy in Revelations to his biographer Jonathan dimbleby televised in 1994. he admitted adultery with Camilla he answered truthfully about the adultery now the immediate reaction was very well done him this is very brave of him to admit his adultery it wasn't anything of the sort because it it Unleashed all those demons of the lies that had gone before in retrospect Charles's confession of adultery on the dimbleby program in 1994 was the biggest mistake he's ever made it's quite ironic because Diana actually benefited from being honest and making honest confessions and people loved her for her faults as much as her strengths when Charles tried the same tactic of being honest it just rebounded on him hugely and of course he didn't think at all about what impact this would have on his own children let alone the Parker Bolt's children all sorts of people were involved who he didn't think of that moment of course precipitated the eventual divorce between the Parker poses Andrew Parker Bowles had put up for 20 years with the prince uh having an affair with his wife because he thought it was his National Duty I think to do so but that was the last straw for him Charles making this so public did he think of Andrew Parker bowles's reaction when he gave that interview I don't think so but the divorce proceedings followed very hard upon although a Catholic Andrew Parker Bowles remarried soon after his divorce through his wife Rosemary and Royal Ascot to Royal homes now divorced Camilla with the help of Charles's good friend Lord Halifax bought a new country home Ray Mill House 10 miles from Highgrove Charles redesigned the garden set in 17 Acres Camilla fell in love with the Wiltshire mansion's ornate rooms its antique furniture and the king-sized canopy bed the time of his divorce in 1996 Charles and Camilla were secretly photographed together at the Welsh home of their friends Nick and tsuki paravaccini the Press had been tipped off by a mystery woman [Music] in June 1997 Camilla crushed her car driving to Highgrove to meet Charles she escaped prosecution which led to accusations of special treatment because of her status as a royal mistress [Music] I know that Prince Charles has advised her which is the same as instructing her not to read about herself in the newspapers because if you read about yourself you're going to get hurt and that seems typical of their relationship actually this is the way we do it I don't do this and then you won't have to read that and I'm sure that she respects that because she respects most of the things he says when Camilla asked the newly engaged Diana if she intended to hunt the princess suspected that Charles and Camilla secretly met through the hunting fraternity Camilla is at her best on Horseback showing the humorous side of her personality that Charles loves I think the fact that Camilla exudes the kind of quality of friendliness of ease I mean she's prepared to um she's prepared to muck in with Charles she doesn't have tremendous heirs and Graces she's coming from the same place as he's coming from and he feels very comfortable with her through the national osteoporosis Society Camilla has found a suitable cause to launch her charitable work it's apparent that Camilla in her own Walk of Life is tremendously popular she does a lot of fundraising the people the Charities she works with she's very outgoing and people adore her so she's very fitted to the role she could easily carry off an ambassador's type role equally as well as Diana not everyone would agree Diana's ability to empathize with suffering wherever she found it was unique and cannot and should not be imitated strangely Diana seemed to have some sympathy for Camilla once her marriage was over and she was a free woman I had lunch with Diana just the two of us about nine months before she died when she was in more Mellow Mood about the whole issue of Charles and Camilla she'd relaxed since the divorce settlement she wasn't quite a spiky in what she said about Charles and she wasn't quite as spiky as what she said about Camilla the famous third person in their marriage and she said to me look why don't they get married I'm past caring was how she put it she quite she wished Charles reasonably well why why shouldn't he marry Camilla if foreign these enduring memories of Diana's last campaign against landmines in Sarajevo just days before her death have elevated the late princess to a near religious status but how has her death affected Charles a great deal of trouble has been removed from his life and that's clear a great deal of trouble and it was only going to get worse they were battling over the children battling for their affections I mean Diana was you know she was weak in many ways she was deeply flawed person she knew that we knew that and it's quite ridiculous to make her out to be a saint she was a human if nothing else [Music] for several months after Diana's death Camilla stayed hidden away comparisons between the princess and the woman who destroyed her marriage were frequent in the winter she and Charles hunted they were careful not to be photographed together aware of public sentiment after Diana's death Charles and Camilla put on hold their plans to appear in public together instead they weekended at Secret locations such as clanover in Wales where they stayed at the secluded leafy estate of Robert Herbert and his wife Philippa there has been that element of thrill and secrecy which is undeniable I mean no one who's ever had an affair a love affair would deny that there is a thrill in using code names and secret trysts and it adds to the you know the free size you know we can meet on Saturday night and nobody knows but us and and then you know someone will sort of set apart a magnificent bedroom suite and give them their privacy and tiptoe around them and there must be a huge element of being terribly special for all these years Charles says Camilla is the non-negotiable part of his life his staff now have to include her when planning his private diary there's no doubt at all that he set up this network and he has plenty of people working for him he doesn't have to actually make phone calls himself to say um I'll be down at half past two and perhaps you'd like to invite so-and-so to dinner he's got a whole Army of people only too happy to do that for him and of course they have grudgingly come to accept Camilla too at Beau wood house she is welcomed by Earl encounter Shelburne but some Aristocrats put loyalty to the queen first and avoid Camilla Camilla isn't really necessarily the top layer of aristocracy so it's probably quite tough for her trying to fit in here you'll have Prince Charles who is of course the most VIP of them all then you'll have this whole layer of squiraki which is what he's enjoying their Hospitality when he's down here where does Camilla fit into that she's neither one nor the other she's great on Horseback but around the dinner table don't know she hasn't got quite the same breeding since his arm injury Charles plays Les Polo but when he does everything has to be right for him in recognition of his special status as the Prince of Wales everything has to bend for Charles and that includes Camilla's wishes and Camilla's life and there's no doubt that she this isn't speculation I know this she defers to him if he's in the room she will address him as Sir the same as everyone else and um I mean I don't know about what they get up to in private although we've had a glimpse of that through the Camilla gate tape but I mean it's clear that he is he is the Lord and Master he is the ultimate chauvinist and she allows him to be that Charles knows that the key to the public approval of Camilla as his partner is the acceptance of her by William and Harry but he is cautious Charles kept his sons away from Camilla while Dana was alive for Fairly obvious reasons I think the late princess would have taken a very dim view of her boys cozying up to the woman she regarded as the woman who'd broken up her marriage it's very difficult I think from their point of view they want their father to be happy and clearly this is the woman who makes their father happy at the same time they must be aware this is also the woman that ruined their mother's life in her view and that's going to be very difficult for them to forget when Camilla held a party for Charles at Highgrove William was invited and so was Harry but I think of the two boys it's probably Harry who feels um most unable to meet this woman who he felt made his mother terribly terribly unhappy I think William even though William would appear to be a chip of the old block in the sense of his mother they had very very similar characteristics I think he's of an age where he feels that life changes life must go on and that tolerance and acceptance are part of that I mean I think he has a more mature attitude one of Charles's best love sanctuaries is the glanusk estate in Wales home of Sean leg Burke lady in waiting to Princess Anne he often visits with William and Harry but Camilla is currently not accepted at glanusk and stays nearby with the Herbert that Clan over this has always been his safest Haven of all he loves Sean Nick Burke and her husband William and they love having him around and it's comfortable it's farmy it's all the things he loves there's a river running through it um there's horses there's shooting there's everything that he and Harry and and little William love the leg Burke's daughter Tiggy is a valued companion to William and Harry Diana however was very jealous of their obvious attachment to her here is this immensely warm and fun-loving and sporty and wonderful girl effectively taking over Diana's children the human beings she valued most the only human beings to ever give her unconditional love but Diana's sons have suffered the irreparable loss of their devoted mother before they were grown up [Music] on a visit to Bhutan in 1998 Charles continues his work and to find time for himself and for his Hobbies [Music] he hopes that one day the public will accept Camilla as his partner she is very very important in Charles's life she is the sustaining Factor helping him to deal with his grief over Diana to help the boys she is the one strong stable emotional factor in his life and that over a period of time by a sort of quietness by a kind of being there instead of having her thrust in front of everybody's noses she will gain the respect time is a great healer time is enormously important there's no need to rush it in the eyes of the church Camilla is still married remarriage to Prince Charles would raise religious and constitutional issues could she ever become Queen I think it's interesting that when people say Charles should have married Camilla in the first place 30 years ago when he dithered and didn't marry her and she married Andrew Parker Bose we've got to remember that probably she was unsuitable then she was not really a candidate for bride a she had a bit of a past B she wasn't really blue-blooded enough so he could never really have married Camilla in the first place now he could there's no need he's got his heirs which would have been the problem then uh it doesn't have to marry a blue-blooded divorcee for 30 years she's shown that she is the main woman in his life he's called her non-negotiable part of his life on whatever basis married or not so I think uh we I think we'll see them moving towards marriage while the Press produce fantasy photos of King Charles and queen Camilla the couple takes advice from government ministers about their future Charles is reluctant to push the situation fearing a crisis but I think that he's wrong myself to think that public opinion will continue as Diana's death recedes into the background to tolerate a future king really living in sin with somebody else's ex-wife which is the situation at the moment I think he wants to continue that way I think she would want to get married more than him but I don't think he can maintain that status quo Camilla I think he's now permanently the mistress she is now permanently behind the scenes she will never become Queen she will never have a coronation there there will be always a ghost Queen Diana by a deep Paradox Diana's death put her back into the royal family and in a funny kind of way she's Queen from Beyond the Grave some suspect that Camilla asked her friend Lucia Santa Cruz to help her have her marriage to a Roman Catholic annulled so that she would no longer have the stigma of divorce over over her head but even then would Charles marry her I think it's because she's been so uncomplaining over the years but she's still there she's still trucking on you know that's people think oh this is the most enduring love affair and I mean it's it's availability isn't it I mean sadly she's there it's all on a plate for him of course she amuses him and entertains him and they share great great loves like horse riding and hunting and Gardens and so on but but essentially she's there being accepted as the Royal mistress in Charles's life may be as much as she can realistically hope for just as Diana's death was the ultimate tragedy becoming Queen Camilla maybe the Ultimate Fantasy crowds flock to the palace on the Queen's official birthday in June to see the royal family celebrate with a balcony appearance now she faces a dilemma whether to invite Charles's new wife Camilla with all the connotations of her past role as his mistress nobody really wants to poke into the murky past and history of Charles and Camilla's relationship the word adultery seems to have been uh tipexed out but the truth of the matter is that they did have an adulterous relationship and that in 1975 the queen who didn't want to blame her son for being an adulterous relationship said that she would never have Camilla Parker Bowles in the same room as her ever again the queen is aware that adultery has occurred she knows what the consequences have been she won't forget it and you won't be seeing Camilla on the balcony at Buckingham Palace when the queen is there 1990 marked the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Britain as the royal family watched the fly past they didn't know that Scandal would soon engulf them and threaten the monarchy itself their troubles really began in 1960 when Princess Margaret the Queen's sister married Lord Snowden she would be the first senior Royal to divorce in modern times in 1973 the Queen's only daughter Princess Anne married Mark Phillips another Union doomed to unravel and would later remarry in a low-key ceremony the spectacular wedding of Charles and Diana was meant to secure the future of the Windsor Dynasty The Fabulous ceremony won Sunny July day in 1981 was the Royal Family's own fairy tale The Dark Secret of Camilla a guest at that wedding was concealed later Diana said there were three of us in this marriage [Music] Sarah Ferguson Fergie married Prince Andrew in 1986. their marriage said the Archbishop was a precious gift to the nation their Bridal path too would be strewn with broken promises and shattered hopes divorce and Scandal would tear apart the Queen's family in the last 20 years the British royal family has survived some pretty catastrophic events and they have all in different ways put that future under threat I think by marrying Camilla Charles hopes that he is going to secure the future of the Royal Family I'm afraid I can't agree with him I think that by marrying Camilla Charles is taking the royal family into dangerous new territory Camilla is going to become the most senior woman in the country after the queen that's a heck of a jump for a mistress for somebody who only within within very recent memory was an extremely unpopular figure given her role her Central role in breaking up Charles and Diana's marriage which was after all the Cornerstone of the Windsor's future summer 2004 Balmoral Castle in Scotland the queen reluctantly began the process of change after a series of joint appearances by Charles and Camilla the queen became convinced that the issue needed resolution in her own lifetime there were meetings at Balmoral I think they started on June the 4th where the queen was up there for a few days staying in a a lodge away from the main house um and a series of advisors came up from London and they started talking about the Constitutional implications of the marriage but at Christmas time Charles decided we really do want to get married and talked with the queen about it while she was at Sandringham and that set things in motion for an announcement in February I definitely feel the Queen's hand was forced I think we can see over the period of the last three or four years that she's been snookered more than once she has been pushed by Prince Charles and his courtiers into doing things that she would prefer not to do she was forced to meet Camilla Parker Bowles at a party at Highgrove which Charles gave she didn't want to do it but Prince Charles said you don't do that and I don't come to the queen mother's 100th birthday the queen does not accept Cabela Parker Bowles and that is a problem for the future Ludlow 2003. for many years now London Racecourse has needed abuse was trouble has been taken to try and build a step this was a nostalgic visit for Charles in opening the new Jubilee stand Charles recalled an earlier day when he had raced at Ludlow as an amateur jockey he stayed to see the Prince of Wales challenge trophy race named after his earlier Chase in October 1980 when Lady Diana Spencer his teenage girlfriend watched with Camilla Parker Bowles they saw him race into second place on his horse alibar Diana didn't know then the Camilla was really his mistress Charles admitted his long liaison with Camilla in a television interview in 1994. they're a fair mirrored and historic romance Charles's great-great-grandfather Edward VII and Alice keppel Camilla's great-grandmother were lovers Alice was beautiful elegant and discreet the more adventurous Camilla emulated her role model but came out of the Shadows with minor charity roles however it seemed that she too was content to remain a mistress I think Camilla can never have imagined ever that she would become a duchess a princess maybe even a queen in time she had a teenage ambition to emulate her great-grandmother Alice keppel who had an affair with King Edward VII she thought that she too could perhaps be a royal mistress but she never thought that it would be anything more than that now we look at it and we see that Alice keppel is a mere footnote in history Camilla is going to make a whole chapter Charles had met Camilla in 1972 they had a brief affair until he began his Naval duties in early 1973. he was away until September in July Camilla married his friend handsome guards officer Andrew Parker Bowles a favorite of the Royal Court Camilla was six years into a seven-year campaign to marry Andrew Parker Bowles she knew that she was disqualified from becoming Princess of Wales on three counts one that her looks weren't up to it secondly that her aristocratic lineage wasn't up to it and thirdly she was no virgin and so there was never a chance that she was ever going to be Princess of Wales and she knew it she has been in the background for the better part of his life as a constant supporter and and and uh friend in good times and bad but the promotion from mistress to wife is notoriously tricky in Royal history um there is a convention that uh a mistress may not look Beyond her post well it looks as if this one is looking Beyond her current position if she came into this room now we would be required expected to stand up and bow to her protocol prevented Camilla from joining Charles at many family or official events if the queen was present Camilla was segregated Charles was faced with a choice leave the situation as it was or try to resolve it by marriage he was damned if he did he was damned if he didn't really he's had a lot of embarrassment to put up with because Camilla has been prevented from going to spend Christmas with the royal family Easter with the Royal Family and then in November last year Charles and Camilla were due to go to a wedding at Chester Cathedral the princess godson was getting married and Camilla was told that she wouldn't be able to sit with him because of Royal protocol she was going to have to sit behind him or possibly on the other side of the church from him and it was just an embarrassment too far a humiliation too far the thing about all of this we talk about Royal protocol as if it's set in stone but really Royal protocol is what the monarch of the day decides and so essentially that's just the queen showing her distrust and disapproval of the relationship Queen Rania of Jordan's backing gave the couple the encouragement they needed for their first public kiss Charles has tried for a long time to persuade the public the church and his own parents that he should make Camilla his wife I don't think that Charles is impelled by a sense of Duty to marry Camilla I think this is something that he has devoutly wished for many many years it's he alone and against a great deal of opposition from courtiers from the queen from Prince Philip who's been steamrollering through this idea that he could actually marry Camilla and get away with it now we still have to see whether this gamble is going to come off because a great proportion of the British public are really undecided as to whether this is going to be a good move or not just a year after Diana's tragic death Charles claimed he has been tortured over Camilla I thought the British people were compassionate but I don't see much of it he complained to an author I think this is where where Prince Charles often goes wrong when he complains about the people not showing him compassion he often comes over as being a bit too sorry for himself a bit unsure of himself somebody who flounders somebody who can't make a decision he just seems to feel that it's his Destiny to be the king it's his Destiny to do what he wants in his private life and nobody has a right to criticize him and I think this is where he's gone wrong in many ways Charles and Camilla often hold lavish functions to attract wealthy patrons to his Charities on such occasions Camilla is dressed in expensive Couture gowns and wears heirloom Jewels like Alice keppel Camilla has become a woman of considerable substance King Edward VII left his mistress Alice kappel Camilla's great-grandmother vastly wealthy when he died he made sure that she had enough money in her coffers not only for her own lifetime but for the lifetime of her children and great grandchildren and it is true that Camilla has lived off some of the money which her great-grandmother left and passed down I think that Prince Charles almost certainly looking to history will have made exactly the same provisions and Camilla will be very rich when he dies Camilla will still have to endure comparisons with Diana as Charles's fiancee the teenage Diana was already an attractive girl with an eye-catching figure highly photogenic she's soon out John Charles who grew jealous of his glamorous young wife to others her visual appeal together with her sparkling personality proved an irresistible combination she became a National Asset a roving Ambassador for her country [Music] Diner could flirt for Britain and it's it is an underused diplomatic weapon I mean innocent flirting which is what it was can have a very disarming effect on the most unlikely people and it was one of Diana's great talents I think that while she was very very conscious of the need to to carry out this sort of high-level diplomatic activity to the letter and she was she was extremely conscientious about it nevertheless she could add her own bit of Sparkle and she did over and over again I mean the president of Egypt the president of the United States the president of France um the president of Zimbabwe he said she makes you feel good and nobody thought that he meant that she made him feel virtuous she gave him a good feeling that was one of her jobs as she saw it to go around the world giving people good feelings and that included presidents just as much as it included orphans and and the victims of disease I'm only trying to highlight a problem that's going on all around the world [Music] she got out of her Palace most days and she got in her car and she went off and she did her job and it was a very unusual job and it was a very stressful one but it could also be very rewarding and the most rewarding part of it was usually the people that she met and whether it was the East End of London or the East End of Lahore if she met people with whom she could communicate who needed her who lightened her day because the rest of her life was pretty gloomy then that was a successful day and she responded to that that's what made her such a good princess she was great at her job because she committed herself to it emotionally and mentally Camilla Parker Bell is in a very different situation uh I think probably she must aim to attract acceptance and maybe in the far distant future affection too but right now even attracting acceptance is going to be a tough call it's going to require a lot of things to go right and it's going to require her to come across to the British people and to The Wider world as a worthy successor to Diana Camilla is a woman known for hunting rather than caring Charles has presented her through a choreographed public relations campaign with little thought about her image in my view this is putting the cart before the horse I think that what should have happened is that Camilla should have been introduced to the British Nation we know nothing about it she's an enigma she's hidden behind Palace walls for longer than I care to remember and she has never been out pressed the flesh talked to the British public and allowed herself to be measured by their standards the whole thing about having a royal family is that they pay their dues they work for their living they earn their living by doing good deeds by helping charitable organizations and Camilla does virtually nothing like that she does a little bit of help for the osteoporosis Society but she's not seen to be helping anybody except herself the British public the world has known of Camilla as a mistress now they're going to have to start thinking of Camilla as a queen first thing I have something ever is a Princess of Wales which is what in effect she will be and then they're going to have to think of her as a queen and even if she isn't going to be Queen in the foreseeable future that is how people are going to have to picture her that is the the image she's going to have to live up to and I think it most unlikely that she is going to sell herself to the British public to the to the to the World At Large as uh anything like a suitably Regal figure commanding the sort of near Universal respect that a head of state needs to have approaching 80 the queen is admired throughout the world for her lifelong dedication to duty however there is one area where she might have done things differently we now know through videotapes made in Diana's lifetime that she went to the queen to seek help over Charles and Camilla but the queen refused to interfere Diana decided to betray Charles and expose his affair it's a real pity that so many chances to produce a happier outcome went begging I was aware that that there were opportunities for other members of the Royal Family to help Charles and Diner through the crisis that they faced and in particular help Diana she was not a natural Rebel in fact more often she yearned for reassurance and encouragement and guidance whether the words couldn't be found or whether Diner didn't hear them she felt herself excluded from the Royal organization and while she wasn't a rebel she wasn't a wimp either and when as she saw it she felt outnumbered and conspired against she was defiant the queen did not condone Camilla's conduct the couple adopted a strategy of appearing together at events for his own Charities such as the prince's trust but the queen refused to allow Camilla to join Charles on official Royal duties the queen was worried about upsetting more traditional supporters of the monarchy she didn't want Camilla to be seen to be part of the family but of course the the wedding announcement is has just exacerbated the problems really and it's it's pretty very very divisive Camilla retained a group of female friends who were almost ladies in waiting some like Emily van cutsem joined her on exotic holidays Emily has now fallen out of favor after a feud with Camilla at the new Royal Court of Charles and Camilla friends from skiing hunting and Polo want to hold sway among them is Charles's skiing friend and Camilla staunch's supporter Patty Palmer Tomkinson she reunited them four years after Charles's marriage she might be considered a queen maker Patty and husband Charlie's daughters Santa a romantic novelist and Tara a dedicated partygoer and reformed drug addict are among the prince's social set the queen chooses less exuberant friends for Charles such public frivolity will have to end when he eventually succeeds his mother thank you for Camilla adulation from her supporters needs to be tempered with constraint it's said that Camilla is from good middle of the road English County stock and it may well be that that transforms very happily into good Royal stock as well a lot depends on how she perceives herself how she uses her new position it's an enormously influential one uh it rather depends to be brief on whether she takes herself rather grandly or whether she keeps a sense of proportion Camilla will not use the title Princess of Wales she will be her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall as duke of Cornwall Charles benefits from the vast revenues of the duchy he has an income of around 12 million pounds a year on which he pays only voluntary tax recently a parliamentary committee started investigating his finances one of the most embarrassing moments in Charles's recent past is the investigation by the House of Commons Public Accounts committee where they showed that he was getting away with blue murder this is a man Prince Charles who has about a hundred personal staff to look after just him I mean the queen doesn't get close to having that many at the Queen's discretion Camilla will now be able to use the helicopter and two aircraft of the royal Air Squadron for engagements the Royal Train will now be officially available a fleet of eight chauffeur-driven gleaming limousines two Bentleys three rolls and three daimler's will be at Camilla's disposal with the Queen's permission carriages with footmen in Livery may drive the new Duchess of Cornwall Camilla has already entertained guests at Buckingham Palace with Charles on behalf of his charities as his wife she will have more frequent use of those miles of red carpet and the impressive State rooms that tourists admire each summer when the palace is open to the public she might discover that the palace has many Secrets some staff have run a Brisk trade in unwanted gifts passed on by their Royal bosses the Royals themselves have been satirized by the British press with comparisons to Comic television characters then an undercover reporter gained a footman's post his detailed account of life behind Palace walls contained pictures of the Queen's breakfast table complete with Tupperware boxes the public had only seen the state Apartments now they found out how the queen lived clearly there was a degree of intrusion by a reporter impersonating a member of the Queen's household nevertheless the revelations that he produced such as the fact that the queen liked her breakfast cereals served out of Tupperware boxes was endearing and and kind of warm and I think the public were astonished by it and I think they they felt that much more about the queen it made her look much more like one of them one of us the queen and her family extremely middle class and a lot of European Aristocrats look down their noses at the Windsors because their you know their favorite preoccupations are gin and Gigi's and you know horse racing and they're not elegant they don't dress well they're dumpy frumpy sorts of people and they they seem to think that Tupperware boxes on The Breakfast Table well that would be the sort of thing you'd expect from middle class people like the Windsors as heir to the throne Charles is used to deference when he meets the public Camilo will expect Curtis as her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall there was no protocol when she visited Chile alone to visit Lucia Santa Cruz an old friend who introduced her to Charles in 1972. Camilla was besieged by Paparazzi and chased by interviewers from now on the Royal Machinery will protect her from nuisance as well as danger she will have bodyguards for private holidays The Duchess of Cornwall will enjoy official tours courtesy of the British taxpayer she will effectively be on the public payroll reconnaissance visits by Charles's staff will ensure that every aspect of foreign tours run smoothly a protective Cordon will screen her from intrusive questioners staff will make sure that she is never put in this position again her cars will be checked and kept under surveillance for potential kidnap or assassination attempts Paparazzi will be kept at a distance and backup Vehicles will prevent them from following too closely on this visit to Chile there was an eerie reminder of Diana's fatal crash in Paris Camilla II was chased into a tunnel by paparazzi Diana gave up her bodyguard in 1993 after her separation from Charles she had to face rough treatment when she holidayed with just friends her former bodyguard believes that dispensing with her police protection led directly to her death in Paris after a car crash my view that had Scotland Yard been in charge of that security of that night irrespective of any conspiracy theories or any plans to attack her or take her life that night had the security been there provided by Scotland Yard you and I would not be having this conversation I don't think she understood the degree to which her Scotland Yard protection officers made her life bearable and I think her decision to dispense with them was rather petulant and was intended to prompt sympathy from people who pretty soon were able to see the consequences of her being unguarded Ken Wolfe was Diana's eyes and ears he protected her at home and abroad from attacks by assassins and stalkers a trained Marksman his casual Heir belied his own role as a potential bullet catcher whatever the occasion no one escaped his scrutiny if Camilla is to follow in Diana's footsteps she will need another Ken to Shadow her and keep the Press at Bay here in Egypt Ken showed he was good at dealing with the Press allowing Diana the chance to pose for photographers before continuing her tour on this trip while she stayed at the ambassador's residence in Cairo Ken kept guard while she took a dip in the pool Donna was pretty Street wise and and she had you know very very good peripheral vision and I think it was her actually at the same time as myself spotted some people on a roof on a high-rise building nearby I was almost certain that there was the media that were taking pictures of Diana in the pool all I did to help that was to try and obscure the shots that were being taken well you know it didn't always work um and that wasn't necessarily my role but in effect if you look at it from a security standpoint it was actually not a bad thing to do but of course Dinah was discussing it then and say look you know what am I what do I do here do I have to get out I said well no stay there do what you want she said well I never get any peace here do I I said well no but that's part and parcel being the princess of world there's not much I can do about it foreign was a reliable companion too especially every August when the royal family returned to their Highland Retreats Balmoral there are aspects of Balmoral life she didn't like but but very often she'd ring me up and say look I need to go for a walk and I'm again we'd Walk For Miles along the river D and um and that was her freedom but I think there were many aspects of battle that she actually rather enjoyed towards the end of course the relationship it was just too close for home you you've got the mother-in-law and your father-in-law and you're a bit on a limb there and so she's rather dependent on speaking to members of her staff staff saw Charles and Diana in less formal surroundings of Highgrove the couple's country home in gloucestershire this was their weekend retreat Charles and his sons kept their pets there Charles's dog Tigger was unpopular with some of the staff Tigger and Mervin the chef didn't have a very good relationship because Mervin didn't want dogs in the kitchen but one morning Tigger made a run for her for something that fell out of the pan at which point moving grabbed the dog by the back of the neck and then opened up the heater tray of the oven and put the dog in the in the heater tree and of course you should come in literally almost immediately was the prince of Wales and said has anybody seen Tigger well I couldn't actually turn around the same song as the dogs in the oven but he did go outside and come again I said let me get the dog out because the dog now was was instead of being a sort of semi-ruff head the skin Jack Russell was now a smooth skin Razzle with a sort of Fairly high temperature so we got it moving through it in the hallway and the princess came to the door said ah take her there I said you look amazingly hot Camilla is learning that the staff play a crucial role in any Palace they're also aware of any tensions in the relationships of their bosses you know that is a pretty lonely place and you know members of the royal family rely upon members of Staff you know you're values Butler your maid or whatever you want to call it in The Prince and Princess of Wales of case you know it was pretty obvious that the marriage was going through a a difficult period but it was kept very much Under Wraps you know everybody knew in the circle of her friends everybody knew that worked within the palace that there were problems with their marriage and it wasn't too difficult to see that I think it's a credit here to to her staff that very little was said working in Royal residences means poor pay and long hours some staff have found other ways of increasing their income such as selling information and trinkets passed on to them by their bosses recent events have made their livelihood and security uncertain you're always prayed to the Royal order of the boot you know you can be in one day and out the next and it's very much been tightened up because of all the leaks and because you know a Daily Mirror reporter got a job there and then revealed far too much of the Queen's liking so your hampered you've got to sign all these secrecy acts confidentiality agreements and and and the pays of pittance that's why so many of them were selling off these gifts they pick up these Trinkets and things or letters or whatever and they sell them on eBay or they sell them through people in America who adore the royal family and to supplement their appalling pay Paul Burrell Diana's Butler worked for the Diana memorial fund after her death with her secretary Jacqueline Allen they were honored guests at an American fundraising event this gift to borrow from Diana and other items were sold to raise money for good causes a replica of the blue diamond necklace worn by Kate Winslet in the film Titanic raised over a million pounds then it emerged the Burrell had stashed hundreds of the princess's belongings in his home charged with theft he was tried at the old bayley his court case was a fiasco he was cleared when the queen recalled a conversation in which he told her he was safeguarding some of the princess's papers later he revealed details of his private talk with the Queen the barrel truck that's because he should never have gone ahead in the first place I mean they made a fundamental mistake they were misled at the Royals by um what was presented to them by the police had the Prince of Wales taken the advice that was profit to him by a number of senior figures on his staff to have met with Barrel to here with Barrel before the case began he could have resolved it and borrow was not was no threat to them and all the material that Barrel had was buried in his attic it wasn't going to be sold it wasn't going to go anywhere but it went ahead he was prosecuted and the trial collapsed like many of us knew it would do because that he had done fundamentally nothing wrong then betrayed secrets about Diana Charles and Camilla in a book it was serialized with explosive headlines in a tabloid paper he betrayed Dinah there's no two ways about it the man who said for years he would never never leak anything did it to just to make money because he was so upset when he lost his job and his home when Diana died and he couldn't forgive the royal family he went to see the queen begged her to let him stay on in Kensington Palace and she said no after Diana's death her royal jewelry was returned to the Palace the princess had many Heritage items some like this necklace dating to the Queen's grandmother the boys inherited most of Diana's jewelry that wasn't part of the royal collection and they went and chose certain pieces that they wanted I believe that Harry took her Cartier watch and William took her engagement ring but obviously her personal jewelry is being kept for them and their future wives the Tiaras that belong to the queen that she borrowed which get him generation to generation would have gone back into the into the Royal jewelry pool The Duchess of Cornwall might well be seen wearing some of the royal gems even some of the Queen's Personal Collection [Music] perhaps not the state diadem a crown jewel but there are seven other Sumptuous Tiaras including the Queen's favorite the Pearl and Diamond Tiara and the Russian Fringe tiara there are 15 important necklaces scores of earrings bracelets and rings in the collection plus many other pieces from earlier Queens on their engagement Charles gave Camilla a diamond ring which belonged to the late Queen Mother it's worth half a million pounds in 1901 after the death of Queen Victoria Edward VII Alice keppel's lover and his Queen Alexandra were crowned Alexandra wore a crown containing the fabulous koi Noor Diamond said to bring bad luck to a male owner [Music] the queen mother wore it in her own consort's crown on her coronation day in 1937. it was placed on her coffin at her funeral in 2002 now in the Tower of London with the crown jewels could it be worn next by Camilla at Charles's coronation Alice kappel knew that her part in Edward VII's life was strictly private are softening up the public campaign waged for several years has driven the course of events leading to Charles's second marriage although divorced in 1996 in the eyes of some people Diana's death made him a widower Camilla had divorced in 1995. she was a guest at Charles's first wedding press began to speculate on her possible marriage to Charles first there were religious and constitutional obstacles to be overcome similar difficulties faced Edward VII in 1936. his prime minister Stanley Baldwin forced him to choose between the throne and divorcee Wallace Simpson for her he abdicated they married in France and lived in Exile their memories still haunts the Royal Family Princess Margaret also faced a stark choice between keeping her royal position and marrying group Captain Peter Townsend a divorced man Margaret owed her loyalty to her sister the newly crowned queen and had to abide by the prevailing standards of the 1950s Princess Margaret didn't get married in 1953 because the government of the day advised the queen that it would not be acceptable to the British public largely because of the Church of England's reservations in 1992 the divorced Princess Anne sidestepped the Church of England she married Tim Lauren said balmoral's crafty church under the easier rules of the Church of Scotland George Carey then the Archbishop of Canterbury explored ways to allow Charles and Camilla to marry the compromise of a civil wedding and a church blessing was made by his successor Rowan Williams the church has had a very significant role in forcing Charles's hand in marriage they have been very uncomfortable for a long time to see Charles and Camilla living as they see it in sin they seem to be divided about it there's one section of the church that believes that the people should be allowed a second chance of happiness and then there's another group who believe that marriage is sacred and that the guilty parties in a divorce especially should not be allowed to remarry so I can see that the sort of Old Guard in the Church of England would say no no no can't possibly marry them Charles's civil wedding problems go back to 1836 when Queen Victoria was still heir to the throne in 1840 the young queen married her German cousin Prince Albert in a religious service at the chapel Royal at Saint James's Palace group Captain Peter Townsend and Princess Margaret were prevented from marrying in a civil ceremony by the 1836 act and by a later one there are various laws governing marriages of the royal family we go back to the 1836 Marriage Act the the 1949 Marriage Act which both appear very very clearly to prevent members of the royal family from marrying in civil ceremonies there's a danger that that if this law isn't tested now in court than future members of the Royal Family run the risk of getting married illegally and their spouses losing rights of inheritance unless the government changes the law now somebody is going to prove that that marriage is illegal it is legally contentious and I'm afraid that's going to go into the history books and for better or worse and I fear it may be for worse when people look back on this on this whole episode the fact that it was legally dubious is going to be one of the things that they notice and and don't like Charles took advice from Britain's Lord Chancellor over the legality of a civil wedding he was told that human rights legislation overturned previous laws Banning the royal family from having civil weddings the great thing about the royal family is they make it up as they go along they can do anything they want what they like to do is they like to cite precedent and if they want to do something and it hasn't been done recently they can say oh it's done in Henry VII's time it's done in Queen Victoria's time if they haven't got a precedent then they just make it up and say oh well that's how it should be anyway and the great thing is really that they get away with murder simply because they want to and it's very interesting to see how inventive they can be with their own rules perhaps Camilla's biographer is right to be cynical it was also claimed that members of the royal family did not have to post their bands of marriage but Charles was quick to do so in cirencester a town near his country home Charles's title makes it an unusual addition to the local list by attending Sunday service at a parish close to Highgrove he is trying to avoid a rift with the wider church over his civil wedding settling for a church blessing will not satisfy everyone and some might not regard his marriage as valid soon after his engagement Charles made an official visit to Australia without Camilla he faced an unenthusiastic reception his visit coincided with two new Royal Stars stealing the show were Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark and his tasmanian-born wife Princess Mary a former Sydney estate agent her presence recalled an earlier visit in 1983 when the young Princess Diana made her first official tour of Australia Diana and Charles received a rapturous reception these were the Glory Days of the British royal family surely Camilla cannot hope for such popularity I imagine that that reaction to Camilla in Australia will be comparable to reaction to Camilla here in that some people will think she's a good thing not many I suspect more people will think that she's no substitute for Diana and that in fact by taking Diana's Place Charles is showing a lack of respect for Diana but the great majority will be more or less indifferent opinion polls that seem to show that support for a republic is growing again in Australia and when Australians are faced with the prospect of Charles becoming their next king with Camilla as his wife support for a republic has grown even more in the opinion polls Charles should also consider the reactions of all the 15 nations of the Commonwealth where the queen is head of state I think the Commonwealth has been sadly neglected not so much by the queen who takes her duty to the karmelt as head of the Commonwealth very seriously but I know that Prince Charles is not as enthusiastic about his Commonwealth duties as his mother is and I think it's a matter of great regret that uh the future of the British Monarchy seems to be turning its its attention rather more towards Europe than towards the the remaining bits of the of the world which looked to vacuum Palace uh for uh for a lead for a symbolic head Windsor Castle was announced as the venue of the wedding many Royal marriages and christenings have taken place within its ancient stone walls Saint George's Chapel was used in 1992 for a wedding attended by all the royal family it was the marriage of Lady Helen Windsor daughter of the Queen's cousin the Duke of Kent and in 1999 Prince Edward married Sophie Reese Jones at St George's Chapel he is the only one of the Queen's children who is not divorced the chapel is ornate and regally Splendid with the atmosphere of a cathedral Charles plans to marry there were dashed by a legal technicality it emerged after they'd made the announcement a rather hurried announcement provoked by a leak to a newspaper that they couldn't get married in Windsor Castle without allowing the public to get married there for the following three years Queen was horrified at the thought of her weekends being interrupted by members of the public coming in to get married and all sorts of chaos would ensue Charles's officials are starting from scratch with this one and they're trying to blend in with the Queen's household and and what it requires and I think that it's it's hardly surprising that here and there things have come unstuck the couple will now make the short Journey from the castle through the town of Windsor to the register office in the Guild Hall the low-key ceremony will be held in the Ascot room there will be no television cameras and only Camilla's family and Charles's Sons will attend notably the queen will be absent it does go against the grain for the queen not to go to the wedding monarchy is all about theater really and I think part of the problem is the queen was worried that this was turning into a farce and she didn't want to be associated with with something that is making the monarchy the objective ridicule all around the world at the moment how different it all was the last time Charles married around the world 750 million watched the event many of those who believed the fairy tale are still angered by Charles's deception and the tragic loss of Diana I think the public are very cynical about the Royal Family yeah I think the image of them has deteriorated year by year for the last 15 or 20 years there are too many people who really don't trust Prince Charles at all and I don't think they want him as the king people under 14 think the queen and other members of the royal family they're just celebrities like Michael Jackson or Robbie Williams and there's a soap opera going on and they quite interested every now and then to see what the latest installment of the soap opera is for people over 40. they take they still generally take the monarchy quite seriously and it's those people in particular I think who've been upset by the prospect of a future king getting married to a woman who's adultery with Charles helped cause the breakdown of the marriage to Diana February 1981 Charles and Diana faced the cameras for their engagement notice Diana's reply to the interviewer and I I'm amazed that she's been brave enough to take me home and I suppose in love whatever in love means February 2005 another engagement to another English blonde uncannily her words Echo Diana's of course did you get down on one knee before Camilla is reluctant to be compared to Diana with her extraordinary appeal so far Camilla has adopted only a limited charity profile she will never be someone who undertakes an awful lot of Royal duties someone who is constantly in the newspapers she will try anyway to be somebody who is in the background just supporting her husband and getting along very quietly with being a member of the Royal Family [Music] she clearly is somebody who is very well suited for Charles people who meet her say that she is very good at putting them at their ease she's a very strong steady person and I think Charles is somebody who needs constant reassurance his personal life is a bit of a disaster and that's what's threatening the monarchy Camilla will be in the Royal Carriage parade at Ascot races each summer she has to be seen as part of the family so that she is accepted as Princess consort when Charles is king for the present The Duchess of Cornwall will be the second lady in the land Princess of Wales in all but name and she could still become Queen with Charles and Camilla we're into new territory the guys who actually haven't organized this thing don't have any precedent to refer to there isn't a book of rules so they're having to make it up as they go along Prince Charles obviously believes that he could Ascend the throne with Camilla by his side whether she's called a princess consort or a queen is is pretty irrelevant I think the uh the rule is that the wife of the king is automatically the queen so in his eyes this is quite doable we will wait and see whether the jury of public opinion will actually come out in his favor it's a very tricky road ahead for the Prince of Wales he's put his reputation on the line with this marriage we're going to have to see whether he can get away with it the same Prince another wife a second fairy tale based on Scandal and tragedy this one cannot be sold as a storybook Romance the question now is can the monarchy survive a King Charles and a queen Camilla from soldier's wife to Royal mistress to Royal consort Camilla Parker Bowles has made a unique transformation this Majestic makeover has been achieved by expensive grooming cosmetic dentistry Botox injections and even a facelift have been rumored Dowdy country clothes have been banished and replaced by Sleek new outfits Couture houses such as Valentino and Versace now clothe the mature figure so loved by the Prince of Wales no longer hiding in rural seclusion Camilla enjoys the Ritz and Glitz of her celebrity status plays and premieres Grand dinners and parties lavish holidays and Suites in Royal homes fill the life of the best kept woman in Britain Camilla was carefully repackaged and presented to the public as a wife in waiting she is the official Mrs Wales she's having a wonderful time money is No Object Charles adores her he showers her with jewels she is a very rich woman now thanks to her royal lover a front row place beside the catwalk at Fashion parades such as Stella McCartney's Chloe show in Paris Mark Camilla as a client with International prestige she's learned to dress the Royal way with restrained outfits conspicuous hats and serious jewelry [Music] Camilla gets sent to New York to have a bit of a makeover and she gets given a a big clothes allowance by Charles to go and look right the one thing where she does of course score wonderfully now she is beginning to get some decent jewelry the proper stuff from Charles Camilla is adorned with fabulous gems at events such as her 50th birthday party held at Highgrove Charles's country home at his 50th party she wore this aquamarine and diamond necklace it belonged to her great-grandmother Alice keppel Mistress of king Edward VII Charles's great-great-grandfather Charles is fascinated by today's repetition of their great romance he goes out of his way to find jewelry which belonged to her great-grandmother Alice keppel he wants to revisit history and what he's done has gone out of his way to try and find all the Jewelery which King Edward VII gave to Alice keppel and give it back to Camilla now you can call it sentimental or you can call it what you want some would call it expensive Charles learned that a well-kept mistress can cost as much as a wife Camilla wears clothes from Versace one of Diana's favorite fashion labels the princess wore a Versace gown in Chicago in 1996. tall slim and elegant she was an iconic style setter glamor gowns are less suited to the more matronly figure as Camilla has discovered I think she feels uncomfortable wearing these clothes which is why she is such a figure of fun with the British press it doesn't quite hang together right and she does not like the comparisons with Princess Diana well a lot of photographers came to me recently and said my God we took some pictures of Camilla last night and she looked transformed she was a different woman now lines on her around her eyes apart from that I've noticed that she's trying a lot harder with her makeup and her hair for many years Camilla and I have been to the same hairdresser and I've seen her sitting at the next wash basin to me but when she had her hair done she'd insist on brushing it out herself she wouldn't let the professionals do it and she always had a kind of 1970s bad fire faucet Majors kind of looked to her hair that was very dated but she seemed to like it like that that seems to have changed there's a bit more slick it's a bit more polished a bit more professional nowadays so she's certainly trying harder and one reason for that so I'm told could be that she's worried about hanging on to her prince and she's trying very hard to to look the part and to keep him luxurious holidays courtesy of wealthy friends with Sumptuous Villas and palatial Yachts have a certain appeal a Greek Islands cruise on the mega yacht Alexander cost ninety thousand dollars a day but it's free to Charles Camilla and their guests there are Chelsea's residences to enjoy Highgrove with its cherished Gardens and admired architecture was chosen by Camilla it's where she Stables her horses convenient for a woman who likes to hunt with the local Gentry a hobby which costs Charles around 45 000 pounds a year [Applause] on the Queen's Balmoral estate in Scotland there is Burke Hall Once the queen mother's home it was the scene of many a secret rendezvous [Music] she was quite willing to throw open her house at Burke Hall in the highlands for Charles and Camilla and of course nowadays it's Charles's home the queen is has passed it on to him and he's redecorated it and he and Camilla spend many holidays there owned by a trust the castle of May on the Northern tip of Scotland was the queen mother's private home Charles adored his grandmother and feels that he and Camilla are keeping her memory alive by staying in her favorite retreat Camilla is shatlin of Clarence House the queen mother's old London home it's worth 150 million pounds when everybody moved into Clarence house once its refurbishment was complete that William and Harry found themselves Living For The First Time with their father's mistress now if that was difficult enough it was made more difficult by the fact that Camilla also imported her father major Bruce Shand and so suddenly there are people that they don't really know terribly well and they're supposed to share a roof with them and I think both William and Harry found that a very uncomfortable experience Mark Boland who has since left the prince's household for a media relations career also served Camilla courtiers like Poland owed allegiance to both The Prince and his mistress I wouldn't call them sycophants but I would say that they're all extremely loyal to Prince Charles and therefore when Camilla moved in they are extremely loyal to her if they want to keep their jobs they have to like it or lump it being a royal courtier is pretty much a lick spittle job you know you you uh tug your forelock to the boss and if the boss has got a new girlfriend then you go along with whatever the girlfriend says whatever they feel privately she's part of the management team now and they have to work to her as well as worked Prince Charles it's a wonderful life for a woman who lives like a queen but has few duties except taking over Charles's Splendid homes Camilla is running the Royal show she's in charge of three Royal residences uh Clarence House the main Royal residence Burke Hall the Scottish residents and Highgrove which you must remember is the house that she chose for Prince Charles not Prince Charles choosing for himself she had a very strong say in the way that the houses were refurbished she oversaw the way that the gardens were reorganized and she really really runs the everyday business of all Royal palaces on Prince Charles's behalf she's a very powerful figure in that way and although we don't see very much of her in public at the moment you mustn't underestimate the power which she wields both over the Prince of Wales and the prince of Wales is staff and households Camilla's own home Ray Mill House was brought after her divorce in 1995. smaller and less imposing than Highgrove a few miles away the house was redecorated and the gardens maintained to exacting standards with costs met by Charles members of his close Circle helped to buy the property when she wanted to buy her country home in Wiltshire a group of Prince Charles's friends raised the money for the mortgage and so they kind of bailed her out apart from the upkeep of the 17-acre estate Charles also pays for Camilla's security system he provides her with highly trained bodyguards to protect her from harm in 1997 Camilla had a minor accident on the winding roads leading to Highgrove Charles pays all her motoring costs her clothes her running expenses her car the two police former police people who who look after her chauffeur her around and act as her protection officers they're all paid for by Prince Charles Camilla undertakes some low-key charity work she became a patron of the wheelchair Bobby Vance appeal a scheme which provides voluntary Home Security in 2004 she joined Prince Charles on a public engagement for the appeal her sister Annabelle Elliott came to see the couple's fundraising attempt [Applause] received in a county which is home territory for Camilla a shrewd way of guaranteeing public approval for their relationship one onlooker told the Press it's nice to see them together they've got a life to lead haven't they I don't see why not we can't all live in the past [Applause] but this campaign to launch Camilla as a charity Queen has had to proceed with caution if she did take on more charity works you might be accused of following it or trying to follow in Diana's footsteps but the problem is she's not very good what her biographer Christopher Wilson described it to me like this he said she's great one to one but she's no good with a crowd the difficulty for Camilla is she's uneasy in the presence of the British public Diana had a wonderful magnetic charm which made everybody feel better once they'd spoken to her and met her and so it made her an absolute natural going out on the charity circuit raising money and raising awareness Camilla just doesn't have that common touch and as a result she has stayed away from the one vehicle which could bring her in contact with the British public and allow the British public to assess for themselves whether this woman who lives with the Prince of Wales is worthy of their support in 1997 Camilla became a patron of the national osteoporosis Society although she had a personal interest in the bone thinning disease the charity was a useful launching point for a more public role posing where British celebrities to raise a Charity's profile also served to enhance her own she became president of the society in 2001 a self-assurance crew quickly as she took on more engagements in 2002 she attended the society's book launch sure about this little book of calm well I think anybody who's very interested in osteoporosis should read it it's very cheap it's very good reading and it'll tell you all about it why are you particularly interested in it uh my mother thank you acting as an ambassador for the society she attended the World Congress on osteoporosis in Lisbon opened by Queen Rania of Jordan Camilla made a speech my family knew nothing about osteoporosis the local GP was kind and sympathetic but he like us was able to do little to alleviate the terrible pain my mother suffered so stoically we watched in horror as she quite literally shrunk in front of our eyes Camilla took her place with confidence at this round table of international women's leaders she had begun to perform like a royal a walk with the prince in Green Park near Buckingham Palace was another milestone in operation Camilla the carefully orchestrated campaign by Charles's Spin Doctors to gain acceptance for the couple Charles and Camilla met on the polo field at Smith's lawn near Windsor in 1971. Charles began a lifetime romance with Camilla but she was already in love with another Polo player Charles's friend handsome guards officer Andrew Parker Bowles he had quite a collection of female admirers after a brief affair with Charles Camilla married Andrew she was not aristocratic enough to be Princess of Wales and Charles was committed to a naval career her marriage did not end the Royal liaison on leave from the Navy Charles would meet Camilla at whole place the home of her grandmother Camilla helped him choose a wife to provide heirs to the throne Lady Diana Spencer was ideally Suited [Music] second birthday but there wasn't and he told reported yesterday that may be coming soon is there any comment to make about that yes [Music] the engagement was finally announced in February 1981 shortly before Charles left for a trip to Australia minutes before these pictures Charles had taken an intimate call from Camilla his teenage fiance knew and was left fighting back the tears she was crying at the airport because she knew instinctively that this wasn't going well that Charles still was obsessing about Camilla a thought about her we saw later of course in the Royal honeymoon that the cufflinks and the photographs of Camilla which fell out of his pocketbook these are things that she knew instinctively already that his mind and thoughts were with Camilla and not with her his future wife Charles stayed on the remote Ranch in Queensland of his old Polo trainer Sinclair Hill he didn't contact Diana but kept in touch with Camilla from Sinclair Hill's home the prince's phone calls to a woman were secretly recorded and the bugged love tapes passed to the Press who naturally assumed that the mystery female was Diana I think it must have been a double blow for Diana because already there had been the Royal train incident when it was suggested that Diana had spent the night on the Royal train with Charles in fact we now know it was Camilla Parker Bowles now this new blow she is just a moment away from actually getting married to Prince Charles and she discovers that he's been making private telephone calls which have been bugged they're supposed to be to Diana but in fact there to Camilla now she is within weeks of actually getting married to Prince Charles Charles isn't calling her at home but he's calling Camilla can you imagine what was going on in her mind later Diana called her wedding day the most emotionally confusing day of my life Camilla had been in Saint Paul's Cathedral as Diana and Charles exchanged their wedding vows for several years the palace protected the fairy tale when deceived the British public and the media about the state of the marriage of Charles and Diana and the fact that Camilla was involved they always operate at the palace a defensive public relations system not an offensive one so they were trying to protect his reputation and a lot of people were fooled for a long time myself included I thought that he's far too Noble a person to be unfaithful to his wife and betray his marriage vows but he said do you expect me to be the first prince of Wales doesn't have a mistress leading the guard of Honor for the carriage taking the couple to their honeymoon was Camilla's husband Andrew Parker Bowles a page of the Queen's coronation he was now a lieutenant colonel with the household Cavalry interviewed that day he described Charles as a marvelous leader and a marvelous man very few knew that boli Hyde Manor the parkabol's home a few minutes drive from Highgrove had been used for trysts between Charles and Camilla in time Camilla also made secret visits to Highgrove it's important to remember that when she got married Highgrove was Diana's home I mean Kensington Palace was her London base but Highgrove was home and on the occasions I visited the house it was her place but I think as the marriage deteriorated and she knew that that Highgrove was where her husband entertained Camilla Parker Bowles obviously her views on the place changed so that by the time she left she metaphorically and pretty much literally shook the dust of it off her off her shoes Charles had bought Highgrove to be close to Camilla it's near the gloucestershire town of tetbury with its centuries-old buildings despite its Queen charm Diana never felt at ease in the area it was too near Camilla and the Beaufort hunt and this time Diana didn't ride and she was suspicious of the hunting set who might provide opportunities for Charles to see Camilla once when she was having lunch the Hunts sort of came Galloping through the garden the local hunt the Beaufort and she was outraged because Prince Charles jumped up left his lunch to get cold on the table and rushed out to sort of look at them and she was Furious Giles also met Camilla at safe houses loaned by friends who encouraged his betrayal of Diana they were photographed together at one of their Secret locations Glen selling house near Brecken owned by friends in Camilla Circle in 1986 the Parker Bowles family moved to middlewick house again close to Highgrove caught out by the Press Charles made a frantic Escape hidden under a blanket he also journeyed to love nests around the country [Music] the locations included garabee Hall in Yorkshire home of the Earl and Countess of Halifax Eaton Hall in Cheshire home of Anne Duchess of Westminster and northmore farm then the Suffolk home of the van cutsims Florence in Tuscany was a shared passion they visited a villa bought by King Edward VII for Alice keppel here they love to paint the couple visited Turkey in 1989. when these sneak pictures in the Press fail to end the affair Diana took action herself Prince Charles really believed that he could manage his love life he could keep Camilla in one compartment of Diane in the other and he was appalled when he was invited by Lady Annabelle Goldsmith to her house ormley Lodge to go to a birthday party to discover that Diana who had also been invited was actually going to come surprisingly the Prince of Wales didn't expect the princess to go but but but but she did and I went with both the prince and princess of Worlds and he was appalled at the thought that the two women in his life were actually going to meet and all his worst nightmares came true Camilla and Charles had nipped off together they were having a private conversation downstairs away from the main party within about an hour or so I was I heard my voice being shattered from the from the hallway and it was it was the princess and she's rather distressed and she said to me can I I can't find the Prince of Wales so I said well you know I'm not buying so much I can do but you know why he says well you know I can't see Camilla either so there was a sort of a rather serious tone that came out of the expression came across her face will you come and help me find them finally Diana cracked she raced down the stairs she confronted Camilla and said leave my husband alone Diana had control of that moment and I think it must have been a wonderfully triumphant moment for her because it was the only time during all the time that she was married to Prince Charles that she was ever able to confront Camilla and tell her to keep off her husband I think when we were on tour in Egypt Diana told me about confronting Camilla Parker Bell's at the Goldsmith party and I mean it didn't surprise me very much because I knew the princess was a pretty feisty lady and I was quite pleased uh on her behalf that that she was confronting somebody who she felt was a very unwelcome intrusion in her life Diana privately nicknamed Camilla the Rottweiler Camilla called her Barbie after the doll everyone in Royal circles knew that Charles and Diana now lived Separate Lives Charles played Polo every summer a hobby Diana disliked almost as much as hunting in 1990 the prince broke his arm in a dangerous fall Diana was with Charles when he left hospital but this show was a deliberate smoke screen to conceal the true state of the marriage they went home to Highgrove together but Diana soon left its front door for London and Camilla arrived by the back entrance to nurse the prince the marriage entered a terminal stage with Diana and Charles both using Highgrove at different times Camilla took over every aspect of Charles's private life she is a mother to Charles she's a nanny she's a nurse she's a mistress she's somebody who treats him as a little boy which I think is what he wants half the time I think she must be great in bed with him and looks after him in that department exceptionally well this is a lady who just does everything for the Prince of Wales and doesn't actually ask for that much in return to be fair I don't think she's even asked him to marry her in June 1992 a biography of Diana revealed her suicide attempts and an eating disorder caused by her anguish over Charles's closeness to Camilla her secret cooperation with author Andrew Morton betrayed her husband and the Royal Family the couple was scarcely speaking as they performed their last Foreign Tour in Korea that November days later the Prime Minister John Major made this historic announcement it is announced from Buckingham Palace that with regret the prince and princess of Wales have decided to separate 1993 began badly with Camilla gate a bugged intimate phone call between Charles and Camilla [Music] [Music] Charles's advisors encouraged him to tell his version of events to biographer Jonathan dimbleby on television he admitted adultery with Camilla she was exposed to public sensia whenever there's a crisis the royal family has one rule and one rule only and that is don't do anything and when the Camilla gate tapes were published when Andrew Morton's book exposing Charles's long affair with Camilla was published Prince Charles did nothing he let her take care of Affairs for herself as a result she was put under house arrest by the British press she was vilified in public people throw bread rolls at her and basically he did nothing to protect her nobody was sent in by his team his Prince Charles's team to actually make life more easy for her she had to survive by herself Diana also mapped out a route for her own Survival on the night of Charles's televised admission of adultery she upstaged him by wearing one of her most daring dresses at a charity event a year later she bared her soul in a remarkable interview for the program panorama she spoke of her illnesses her Despair and her feelings of failure as a wife with calculated Revenge she blamed Camilla Parker Bowles was a factor in the breakdown of your marriage well there were three of us in this marriage so it was a bit crowded famously Diana said that there were three in her marriage by which I guess she was referring to Camilla Parker Bowles and it's a fair bet that if there had only been two in the marriage then it would have been easier for those two to do what was after all their Duty constitutionally which was to stay married I think that's sometimes forgotten that that uh that fairy tale wedding in Saint Paul's in 1981 was the Windsor Dynasty's best bet for long-term survival and the fact that that didn't work for whatever reason whether it was Camilla Parker Bowles or anything else um is the gravest most dangerous threat to the long-term future of of the dynasty Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles were divorced in early 1995. a few months after Charles's admission of adultery Andrew had been embarrassed by his longtime friend and fellow army officer Camilla remained silent when Camilla got divorced from Andrew Parker Bowles the only reason that that happened was 100 percent Prince Charles's fault it would never have happened if he hadn't humiliated Andrew Parker Bowles by going on television he admitted that he'd been unfaithful three days later it was as quick as that Andrew then said a divorce has to go ahead in fact he behaved very well he became the guilty party it was very old-fashioned and he took all the blame and I think she divorced him but that would never have happened if the Prince of Wales hadn't made that ridiculous admission to nimbleby not only did it cuckold him in front of everybody but it also was a fellow brother officer in one of the regiments saying I have been having an affair with a fellow officer's wife that is an absolute No-No in the British army you do not behave like that Andrew who had retired from the Army on a pension remarried his second wife Rose took Camilla's place at Society events such as Ascot each summer the divorce cleared the way for Camilla's second marriage Charles who'd been having this wonderfully illicit Affair which went on for years and years and years was in the position where he had to make an honest woman out of Camilla now it may be that after all these years they've been together he was actually tiring of her and we may see that today that they live in Clarence house but set living Separate Lives who knows but what I do know is that Charles forced this divorce and he ended up with Camilla whether he wanted her or not Camilla's children Tom and Laura were affected by their mother's affair with Prince Charles Tom was so embarrassed by other boys teasing that at one stage he changed his surname to balls he also turned to drugs and was caught out amid unrestrained publicity Charles had to distance himself and his boys from his Lover's son one of the Great disasters of the Camilla campaign the the campaign to try and make a more acceptable to the British public was to try and join together the Parker Bowles family and the house of Windsor Family the the children of Camilla and the children of Prince Charles and the Spin Doctors were trying terribly hard to make this look like one nuclear family but in fact it was never going to work uh Prince William and Prince Harry are remarkably suspicious of the whole Parker Bowles ethos and they wanted to maintain their distance Parker Bowles is a valuable brand name Tom who once sold wax jackets in Harrods has reinvented himself as a cookery writer Charles and Camilla's friend Emily van cutsem fell out with them over Tom's influence on the young princes the feud was exposed when her son Edward married lady Tamara Grover daughter of the Duke of Westminster two or three years previously the van cutsims had atadena had warned Prince Charles that the boys were mixing with Tom Parker Bowles Camilla's son who had been taking drugs and they said you know he's a bad influence when that dinner table conversation got back to Camilla she struck back by making comments about the van cut some children the presence of the queen added the aura of royalty and the rigidity of protocol with her status defined by her role as a mistress Camilla had to be seated away from the Royal Family she knew that she wouldn't be sitting with Charles but when she read in the papers nobody had the courtesy to tell her this that she was not only not going to be sitting with John but she'd be sitting over the other side of the church somewhere at the back I think she felt a bit peaked we've got a royal mistress whose status and and position is still very ambivalent uh and of course the whole the whole Pond is made muddier because there are so many people stirring away in it Charles faced a dilemma if he attended Camilla would be effectively snubbed if he stayed away he could be accused of letting down the bridal couple in their families it became the war of the wedding and Camilla won for the first time since I can almost remember the Prince of Wales actually stood up and got counted and showed some real fighting Venom in favor of Camilla and for the first time Charles said obviously fine I don't like this either I'm going to find a good reason not to go to this wedding Charles seems to have learned nothing in the the sphere of public relations he doesn't know about damage the mistake limitation he doesn't know how to see a problem that's coming down the road and take avoiding action and in the van cutsen wedding we see um a royal piece of Machinery which doesn't work during the Queen's golden jubilee celebrations in 2002 an open-air pop concert was held in the grounds of Buckingham Palace most members of the royal family attended in the row behind the princes Camilla sat with her friends Angus Ogilvy and his wife princess Alexandra the Queen's cousin [Music] when anger sadly died of cancer in 2004 Camilla was not allowed to be near the royal family at his funeral things were different in King Edward the seventh day most of the aristocracy knew about Alice keppel but the public were kept in ignorance her identity was not disclosed by the deferential Press of the time the British press still kept a king's secrets in 1936. Edward VII's romance with twice divorced Wallace Simpson was unknown until he abdicated and they went into exile but the world Knew Too Much about Camilla's role in the breakdown of Charles's marriage to let her be forgotten the problem is that he now cannot dump or ditch Camilla because he's gone too far down the Camilla road to made all that unhappiness it created so much misery for the monarchy for Diana for his children for everybody for her sake he now has to stick with her it's almost like Edward and Mrs Simpson back in the 1930s he couldn't drop her I mean he didn't Peter want to but it's a situation whereby he's made his bed he has to lie in it it's almost like the famous saying that you know when you marry the mistress you create a vacancy and I've always felt that Prince Charles was a natural Bachelor I remember the days before he was married and I thought he doesn't need a wife he's got housekeepers Galore he's got valid so he's got you know Butlers he's got everything that a normal man needs to run his household a wife was just an accessory what he really needed was a mistress the contender for that role was blonde australian-born lady Tryon married to another of Charles's friends nicknamed Kanga by Charles she ran a smart dress shop in London she was injured in a fall and confined to a wheelchair and died shortly after Diana in 1997. before her death she recalled her friendship with Charles just because you have to speed Prince of Wales doesn't mean he's any different from lots of other friends and I love my friends and I love him a lot but this very different thing um saying you're in love with someone than that you love them and my friends have been a wonderful wonderful support after their parents separation William and Harry were given a young Nanny Tiggy leg Burke a daughter of a courtier her family were respected Welsh landowners and Charles often stayed on the Family's glanusky state both Diana and Camilla were jealous of tiggy's easy relationship with Charles this led to rumors that despite his Reliance on Camilla Charles still had a roving eye Camilla seems to be the kind of Nanny that he had when he was a small boy and that nurtured him and the person he ran to when he was upset and she sort of replaced the mother that he never really had because his mother was too busy running the country or reigning and I think he's now old enough to feel a bit trapped by that he has had friendships friendships and inverted commas with other ladies and maybe they were when Camilla wasn't available who knows but he certainly has had other friendships and perhaps he thought well you know if I were a free agent I'd be able to have a little bit more fun [Music] Camilla's reputation preceded her when her old friend Lucia Santa Cruz invited her to a home in Chile Camilla received the frenzied Paparazzi treatment once endured by Diana there is a prophet in pictures of Camilla and those who take them sometimes get closer than she would wish strain on her was evident but by taking bodyguards paid by Charles to protect her Camilla will avoid this ordeal in future being the prince's companion meant that she was never really free from press attention even on a night out at the London Ritz with her elderly father major Bruce Shand sometimes she welcomed organized publicity as part of the strategy to gain public acceptance [Music] but eating a sausage could be risky for the image if there was a photographer around I think the British press love to have a bit of a laugh at Camilla she doesn't quite have it they have a wonderful time making jokes about how she doesn't quite carry it off Camilla feels at ease with the hunting set which Diana disliked she's utter most confident on Horseback and can even joke with the Press promising do the Press treat her well I don't think Camilla gets a particularly Fair press but once she came into that Firing Line she's always going to get shot at I mean it's a bit of a nightmare for any woman least of all um Camilla to be permanently compared on the looks front with Diana I mean most women even supermodels sort of suffered a bit when in comparison to Diana you know I don't think that worries Camilla particularly I don't think it worries Charles I think Charles has always found Camilla infinitely more attractive to behold than done okay very strange but love is blind isn't it hunting a country Pursuit she shares with Charles is one of the passions which unite them however beautiful and accomplished an ambassador for Britain Diana could not retain a husband's love Charles preferred the woman who presented no threat to his fragile ego his wife was simply too popular but were the underlying cultural differences between Charles and Diana too wide Diana was a town girl married to a countryman and although she had lots of friends and she grew up in Norfolk and northamptonshire she wasn't really a part of that Polo loving hunting group she did not like horses or horse riding and she resented the time it took Prince Charles away from that but also I think because she suspected that he was using the hunt to as an excuse to meet Camilla William and Harry had to cope with the complexity of their parents separation and divorce and with the adverse publicity surrounding it after their mother's untimely death Camilla became part of their lives I think Harry more than William has been really upset by the fact that Camilla walked in and took over Diana's home Diana's man Diana's lifestyle Diana's everything she stepped straight into a dead woman's shoes and Harry who was perhaps you know the baby of the family much closer to his mother than William he bitterly resents that Prince William seems to be very diplomatic and very conciliatory he knows his father's had a rough time and he seems to think well if it makes you happy Dad fine because remember William hasn't really been around very much at home he's been away at University for the last four years more or less so he hasn't had to put up much with Camilla it's been worse for Prince Harry who seems very unforgiving and not ready to to accept Camilla in his life whatsoever they have always felt uncomfortable in her presence and it is significant that although they moved into Clarence House as part of the so-called nuclear family of the House of Wales they've moved back into their old apartments at St James's Palace they just don't want to be close to Camilla the couple considered marrying in Scotland to sidestep any difficulties presented by the church of England of which Charles will be Supreme Governor Charles's divorce Sister Anne married Tim Lawrence at Balmoral under easier Church of Scotland rules in 1992 for Charles a compromise was reached the church just had a very significant role in forcing Charles's hand in marriage they have been very uncomfortable for a long time to see Charles and Camilla living as they see it in sin the difficulty they face is that the church is split over this uh the Evangelical side of it um really believes that Charles is beyond the pale and can never really hold any responsible role within the Church of England and so they don't want to see a marriage at all the pragmatist side of the of the Church of England wants to see this problem solved and in the end it was the pragmatists who won Camilo was carefully positioned during the Jubilee pop concert in Buckingham Palace Gardens not allowed to sit beside Charles and his sons she was kept well away from the queen who simply ignored her I've no idea what the queen thinks of Camilla Parker bowls and very very few people do have an accurate idea of what the queen thinks to come out back about I think it's quite eloquent that the queen has obviously been at some pains to distance herself from the prince's mistress despite complicated and expensive attempts by the prince to to manipulate the media in Camilla's favor people don't yet regard her as somebody they want to see on the balcony of Buckingham Palace one day they may never think that that she's a suitable person to do that and until then I'm sure the queen is wise to um uh leave our own views tantalizingly unspecific as head of state and supreme governor of the Church of England the queen is always conscious of the example she sets for years she has kept a delicate balance knowing that Charles's adultery with Camilla could easily impact on her own standing and popularity for this reason she avoided confronting the Camilla issue her own thoughts on this she has a constituency she has to answer to the right-minded people of this country people who believe in Morality and uh and not in adultery people who she wants to represent she wants to put distance between herself and Camilla because she has her eye on History she believes that she is now contending with Queen Victoria to be the great Sovereign of this nation and she doesn't want anything to taint that history when it is written and certainly by involving herself with Camilla Parker Bowles it can only be a downside so the queen will always maintain a very large distance between herself and Camilla Charles told the queen that Camilla is the one non-negotiable area of his life he made public appearances with Camilla which put the queen in a difficult position we can see over the period of the last three or four years that she's been snookered more than once she has been pushed by Prince Charles and his courtiers into doing things that she would prefer not to do the queen does not accept Cabela Parker Bowles and that is a problem for the future foreign is for Camilla to be her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cornwall while the queen is alive and Princess consort when Charles becomes king this is an apparent contravention of English law but it leaves the door open for her to become a queen consort while Charles is living with Camilla and they're married in orbit name that doesn't seem to matter much to people to the to the British public at large anyway they sort of think oh well he deserves a bit of happiness but at the same time if you question them and say would you like Camilla to be Queen they get horrified the fact is that she's automatically Queen that's it that's the law of the land here that a woman takes on the rights and titles of her husband [Music] Edward VII was forced to choose between the throne and Wallace Simpson his prime minister Stanley Baldwin warned him in the choice of a queen the voice of the people must be heard he chose abdication and married Mrs Simpson at the Chateau de Conde in France but she was denied the title her Royal Highness as Duke and Duchess of Windsor they spent the rest of their lives in Exile Charles has pursued a high-risk strategy to keep the throne and the woman he loves the divorced and widowed Prince looks poignantly alone on his solo engagements he will be happier with Camilla at his side but could her presence damage the monarchy which still depends on public Acceptance in Britain and in the commonwealth countries speculation will continue over the Constitutional problems raised by the Royal marriage reactions to Camilla show divisions of national opinion some feel that Charles has put Camilla before his duty and should surrender his rights to the throne the queen too is concerned over Charles's ability to ensure the survival of the monarchy harmonic is only as strong as the weakest link and right now Prince Charles certainly looks like the weakest link he seems to sacrifice everything and then at one stage we all thought you can have either Camilla or the crown but you can't have both well he sort of said nope I am I'm going to have both the long shadow of Diana reaches over Charles and Camilla's marriage will they ever be allowed to forget the fairy tale wedding that ended in misery and tragedy I think the Great British public are ready to forget and they're probably not ready to forgive and so they will always eye Camilla with slight suspicion a lingering disregard she will never be a darling of the people like Diana was there's too much against her but at the same time I think everybody realizes that this marriage had to occur their position had to be regularized and it's a good opportunity for a brand new start the newly engaged Camilla posed with Charles at Windsor Castle wearing a half million pound diamond ring from the late Queen mother's collection all right I'm just coming down to work did he get down on one knee to propose are you very happy sir this is the unlikely story of a woman who won a prince Against All Odds now she has a harder task ahead winning the heart of the people will not be as easy [Music]

Channel: Real Royalty

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Length: 146min 17sec (8777 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 28 2022