The Uncertain Future Of The Monarchy: King Charles, Queen Camilla & Prince William | Real Royalty

this channel is part of the history hit Network [Music] Buckingham Palace holds a unique place in Britain's heart its balcony is a focus for National rejoicing the Queen's grandparents appeared there so did her parents at the end of the war Churchill was there on the Queen's wedding day and after her coronation all the royal family were there when Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer they took their place on the palace balcony now a more controversial couple a set for balcony parades [Music] [Applause] 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 tip-exed 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 history hit is a streaming platform that is just for history fans with fantastic documentaries covering fascinating figures and moments in history from all over the 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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 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 adlow 2003 for many years now London Racecourse has needed a new stand on the traffic an enormous trouble has been taken to try and build a staff 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 a 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 that Camilla was really his mistress Charles admitted his long liaison with Camilla in a television interview in 1994. their Affair 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 the the promotion from mistress to wife is notoriously tricky in Royal history um there is a convention that 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 Camilo 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 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 of the seventh 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] Dana 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 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 how many trying to highlight a problem that's going on all around the world 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 uh 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 they're gonna have something ever as 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 and 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 Nina 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 uh and uh while she wasn't a rebel she wasn't a wimp either and when as she saw it she felt um 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 foreign 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 for Camilla adulation from her supporters needs to be tempered with constraint 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 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 footman 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 curtses 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 2 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 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 and it was pretty StreetWise 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 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 Worlds there's not much I can do about it thank you Ken was a reliable companion too especially every August when the royal family returned to their Highland Retreat 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 about 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 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 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 story 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 are 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 the 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 it 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 Barrel 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 Diana there's no two ways about it the man who said for years he would never never leak anything did it 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 Anna'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 Tiaras that belong to the queen that she borrowed which get handed down from 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 Kohinoor 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 a 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 sort of Old Guard in the Church of anyone 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 uh will think she's a good thing not many I suspect more people will think that she's no substitute for Diana and but in fact by taking Diana's Place Charles's 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 Commonwealth 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 the 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 look to vacuum Palace 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 being brave enough to take me home and I suppose in love gross whatever in love means February 2005 another engagement to another English blonde uncannily her words Echo Diana's of course did he get down on one knee to propose 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 are actually having 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 console 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 [Music] Charles and William Father and Son heirs to a kingdom like characters in a Shakespeare play they have lived through more tragedy and change than most families could ever contemplate the scandal of a royal divorce and the untimely death of a mother Charles's controversial second marriage to Camilla the woman Diana blamed for her unhappiness these events could have broken the love of these two men yet they have remained visibly fond of each other it seems that adversity has only strengthened their bond a warm-hearted son to his father William has been no less generous to his sometimes troubled younger brother Harry has completed his training and is now in the Army effectively that means that he can't spend every weekend with his beloved Papa as he once did down at Highgrove but I think they get on well at the three of them I mean they've come together through pretty much through thick and thin you think back only nine years to Princess Diana's death Charles was the single parent and he's done a pretty good job of raising him a confidant to his mother William at the age of 15 had his world Riven us under by her tragic death unlike William Charles is often perceived as eccentric and extravagant his age put toothpaste on his toothbrush for him and he has an old-fashioned image Prince Charles is actually an old Fergie 57 year old Prince Charles is old for his age and I think William's a bit young for his age along with Diana's Charisma and film star looks William has inherited her strong will this obstinacy can create difficulties for his advisors Diana was very stubborn and William as well it's very interesting that William will not be railroaded into anything he will put his foot down dig his healing and he will not budge or be budged by anyone by going to Sandhurst Britain's Military Academy William accepted Royal convention and followed his father's advice in his private life he has chosen a woman very unlike his father's less suitable choices Kade Middleton is a Thoroughly Modern and practical young woman who could one day be Queen probably 99.9 certain that Kate and William will marry hate brings many things to William that make his life meaningful and special William being the very stubborn man that he is will not be hurried into any decision until he is full and ready for it unlike Charles William is a man of his time he's in touch perhaps it's here that the real possibility of rivalry could emerge William is already gaining an image better suited to a future king of the Modern Nation Britain is fast becoming oh Charles has worked hard to overcome the public hostility he faced at the time of his divorce and in the aftermath of Diana's death he and his sons present a united front however opinion polls are often against Charles's accession to the throne in favor of Williams if anyone is unhappy with the dynamic it will be Charles but having said that he is very generous he likes to he likes to share the Limelight with the boys he wants them to be popular he he feels it's important that they learn about the kind of Life they've got in the future [Music] [Applause] an awesome afternoon in London press cameramen and television Crews await the arrival of Prince William to officially open a new baby unit at Saint Mary's Hospital the crowds give him a warm welcome [Applause] the occasion is a very poignant one for Prince William it was here that he was born 24 years ago on these steps he was presented to the World by his proud parents Harry was born as a Mary's two years later [Applause] William has returned to open the neonatal unit which cares for premature babies [Applause] destined for a life very different to most people his easy Royal Manor and his youthful personality a very reminiscent of his mothers when do you think so but it won't be full of won't get any help they're doing that already so you've had 12 times a day I think I don't put on weight definitely definitely and they're very snug there's a lot of Diana in William and I'm sure Charles is probably the first person to see it William's formal introduction to public duties came on some David's day March the 1st in 1991. he was eight years old almost the same age as Charles when he was created Prince of Wales William learned how to respond to the crowds [Music] he's doing ever so well both parents introduced the shy William to the people of Wales but it was his mother who guided him and mentored his progress 15 years on William is making solo visits his Royal career is now split between military training and carefully selected events such as this [Music] until he is King his role is to see and be seen by the people of Britain and the far-flung Commonwealth he began solo engagements representing the queen in New Zealand in 2005. a year later he has mastered the delicate balance between friendliness and keeping a royal dignity on these occasions [Music] for the rest of his life the Press will be nearby watching and recording his every public moment [Music] once reluctant to accept his Royal Duty William has matured and learned to make use of his commanding presence [Music] he is said to become one of Britain's tallest and best looking Kings his mother was once called the jewel in the crown her role has been inherited by her Elder son he's considered the great hope of the monarchy Williams natural magnetism is something most politicians can only Envy [Music] [Applause] his childhood shyness is gone but this relaxed style of his mid-20s has not come easily I don't think he always does I think if you can just look at his cheeks they flush up a little bit every time he goes on a public job I think he is still slightly nervous at the the enormity of the task I was there years ago when he was he did his first major public outing in Canada when he saw all these girls saying we love you William he doesn't like it but at the same time William loves the job that he's got a he's got a face in the future he knows he's got a lot of responsibility and I think he does a good job when he goes out and does public duties in 2006 Charles and Camilla made an official visit to Pakistan an ally in the battle against terrorism this was a serious mission to diffuse International tensions [Music] but the media revived memories of Diana's solo tour 15 years ago Charles's peace initiative was undermined by comparisons between Camilla's and Diana's clothes long after her death Diana can still overshadow Charles William cuts a more striking and impressive figure than his father I do think that Diana see William today would think that he's got a lot of Spencer in him first of all he's got her Steely determination he wants what he wants when he wants it and he gets what he wants normally William and Harry's relationship with Diana didn't evolve beyond that of child and parent her untimely death meant that they never had the chance to form an adult relationship with her [Music] in their memories she is still the vibrant and attentive mother who found time to share their youthful adventures and activities trying to compensate for a broken home she often accompanied them on Daredevil Adventures like this white water rafting holiday [Music] there were frequent trips to far away locations such as film star Goldie horns Ranch in Colorado where the boys could race around on quad bikes some might think that the young princes were rather spoiled by Diana's Indulgence and that they developed a worrying taste for Speed and thrills as well as driving cars William is fond of motorbikes Prince Charles is unhappy about the risks involved [Music] thanks to ride his motorbike because when he's got his helmet on he's totally Anonymous and people you know don't notice him on the road but naturally like any parent his father doesn't approve of the motorbike he's been very reluctantly allowing him to have one but you know William's old enough and sensible enough to to take care of himself on the road and he doesn't take unnecessary risks William wentise and Andrews University in Scotland after his Gap year his father had gone to Cambridge on inferior grades but William won his university place fairly the media were more focused on his romantic than his academic life some helpfully paraded Society Beauties whom he might like to date [Music] thank you Queen making became a press pastime [Music] but William made his own friends he took a group of them on a luxurious Cruise this glossy Posse of young people from well-connected backgrounds were all delighted to be part of William's Elite Circle being close to or a member of the royal family is almost like having some kind of magic dust all over you you can be as famous as you like but if you are if you have a title or in with the rules then it's then it's that little bit of extra that really makes it special among that group are the Palmer Tomkinson sisters Santa on the left and her Lively sister Tara their parents were old friends of Charles and Tara liked to make the best of her royal connections she became an A-list celebrity Tara Palmer Tomkinson is a perfect example of somebody who's become famous associated with the royal family she comes from a wealthy family and had access to all the right places she's good looking a lot of men find her very attractive a lot of women found her very interested in and wanted to know what she was up to and all of a sudden she's everywhere [Applause] Tara gained a flirtatious image which he did little to discourage she also admitted drug problems which she struggled to overcome her lifestyle and frequent appearances in gossip columns led to whispers about the extent of her royal friendships she was wrongly linked with William several years her Junior unwisely she Drew attention to the rumors by giving an interview I think a lot of people thought it was a way of bringing attention to herself and reminding everybody of how close she is to the Royals to say that she hadn't slept with him now happily married to Camilla and the drama of his life with Diana behind him Charles must surely reflect on the past and what might have been if he had followed his heart in his Youth and married Camilla when they first met thus as a young man he led a very active bachelor life enjoying many relationships away from public AIDS he relied on friends to provide a cover for his secret Affairs as Prince of Wales he was a target for girls around the world every girl was scrutinized for her suitability glamorous blonde Davina Sheffield was a favorite Contender until a previous lover revealed an affair Lady Jane Wellesley didn't want to be Princess of Wales lady Tryon was already married Jane Ward was divorced and out of the running as the years slipped by and Charles's friends got married Prince Philip wondered if Charles would ever find a bride well 30 odd years ago when Prince Charles was playing the field he dated a lot of girls a lot of women came and went and Philip was getting concerned because there was a lot of comment about it in the Press at the time Charles himself had sort of indicated at what sort of age he should be married he said 30 was a good age 30 came 30 went he was 31 before he met Princess Diana Lady Diana Spencer she then was and there was no doubt there was some hesitation on Charles's part principally because his friends thought she was unsuited for a life as a royal consort and Charles picked up on all this uh confusion and doubt but when he confided and his father about it Philip felt that he'd LED Diana up the Garden Path and had to go through with it she had to be the one but Charles was still close to another woman Camilla Parker Bowles they met in their early twenties she married someone else but their longtime Affair dominated her marriage and Charles's against expectation William and Harry have accepted Camilla she has wisely sidestepped the role of stepmother that's one role in which Camilla hasn't played a part at all she entered the relationship and the marriage um known for a while that she could not take on the role as the stepmother to William and Harry because she would be perceived as the wicked stepmother there's nothing she could do to help she'd also been raising her own children don't forget and she felt that Charles was best placed to continue the way he was raising the boys rather than for her to interfere and she has stood back she hasn't got involved I'm sure that William does understand why his father's so happy with Camilla she is a person that's like a crutch for him boosts his ego and you know tells him he's wonderful every day it's that's not the sort of job that Sons like to take on and you know she's the sort of person that's a buffer between them and their father especially I think if they've done something that the father doesn't quite approve of Camilla's got a son herself and she understands that boys will be or for boys sometimes Diana and Charles broke with royal tradition by taking baby William on tour to Australia in 1983. they were both tactile parents who encouraged little William to have more freedom than Royal children had in the past Charles had a much closer bond with his children than his mother and father did with him [Music] his now famous pictures of Charles waiting to greet the queen after a long absence show his reactions he seemed bemused by the formality of the occasion at eight Charles was sent to team a preparatory boarding school being educated away from the palace was considered Progressive but it meant more sad separations from his busy Mother burdened by the duties of State she a 26 year old mother of two when she was crowned and one minute she had a family the next minute she had a serious nearly 24-hour job and she had no chance to bring up her children it seems to have had a very lasting effect and they seemed to have missed that bonding with their mother gordonston the public school on the shores of the Moray Firth in Scotland might have seemed a good choice for Charles it was Prince Philip's old school and he had been happy there with its emphasis on character building it looked ideal but it seemed remote and hostile to 13 year old Charles set apart by Royal birth he was a target for bullies Charles refused to send his son so far away he and Diana chose Eaton College very near to the Royal Comforts of Windsor Castle in theory the outdoor activities and teamworker gordonston should have created confidence in the shy young Charles but he was a late developer and he didn't appreciate the school's ethos until the sixth form I didn't really ever enjoy School very much because I always preferred the things I did at home on the hill but I still came to the conclusion towards the end of my time um at gordonston that the kind of education I'd received had been enormously valuable it also concentrated on developing the the whole person you know the mind and the body whatever Charles's views he refused to send his boys to his old school William went to Eaton in 1995. Harry followed three years later William was an Eden Schoolboy when his mother died despite the enormity of her loss he made a success of his years there it was a good choice for him first of all William didn't have the horrendous schooling that that Charles had when he was so unhappy at gordonston and William has been allowed to have so much more freedom than Charles did he's queued up at Disneyland to go on the rides because his mother insisted that he be just like every other child so Williams had an enormous amount of time to enjoy himself to lead a normal life which his father never had teenage William disliked public attention and tried to blend in with his schoolmates he hoped to be concealed in a crowd and Friends often shielded him from prying eyes at other moments he held his head down or turned away trying to avoid recognition Eaton's unrivaled facilities gave him the chance to shine at sports such as rowing rugby and water sports as well as in his academic work he became a prefect and a house captain and in the sixth form captain of the school's swimming team a sport at which his mother had also excelled in her school days becoming a Godfather for the first time at 16 marked another step into adulthood [Music] William carefully cradled Prince Constantine the grandson of the deposed king of Greece a close friend of Prince Charles [Music] in contrast Charles at 17 still looked boyish when he set off for Timber Top an outpost of Geelong grammar school in Australia for two terms this was one school he did enjoy sad moment of course leaving England and seeing one's father and sister standing on the tarmac and waving on goodbye but I found the moment I got to Australia the people were so friendly and so welcoming and I must admit I'd been apprehensive about going there because I'd heard of you know that the Australians were critical and were perhaps you know show their feelings and I was worried about how I would appear to them but I had absolutely no need to worry this wonderful experience I've ever had at 18 Charles went to Cambridge it was the Heyday of The Beatles And The Rolling Stones but the prince's appearance and interest were out of time with his own generation he preferred the cello to the guitar he was an image Maker's nightmare another Prince another age William was the coolest 18 year old in the country in 2002 the queen celebrated her golden jubilee with a pop concert at Buckingham Palace [Music] after Diana's death the royal family had to be seen to be more in touch with ordinary people Charles was there to enjoy the event with his sons and Camilla and other members of the royal family they watched with varying levels of appreciation well we all like to think they've got a whole host of PRS and marketing men breathing away in somewhere in central London but in fact the sad truth is there are a handful of courtiers some of whom are plugged into contemporary life hence this obsession with getting the Prince of Wales into events like pop and rock concerts where I have to say he looks so uncomfortable always suited and booted there are people who feel he should be doing things which relate to what ordinary people in this country are interested in after eaten the grown-up Prince now 18 and taller than his father faced the Press at Highgrove to announce his Gap year plans I wanted to do something constructive in my Gap here rather than I mean I could do quite a lot of work but I thought this was a bit more of a way of making trying to help people out and meet a whole range of different people from different countries and at the same time helping people in remote areas of Chile [Music] William went to Chile for 10 weeks with rally International a volunteer group ready to live and work together in primitive conditions he took his turn with the chores [Music] what time it is cut off at 6 15. [Music] far too early now I'm gonna feed it to my father until he's sick so you can see what we went through I'm so embarrassed about it I don't know what I'm gonna do much cheaper stuff stuff anyway I'll try it first then come back I thought you will [Music] no that's the worst porridge I've ever tasted in my life that is absolutely hideous [Music] oh that is foul oh we're living in a an old Nursery it has got a v carpet it's got a roof overheads which is more than what we've had sipping on the floor in the sleeping bag with about 16 other people cramped together underneath the slide or a climbing frame or something um there's one bathroom it's like it's that's all you need really you don't have any secrets in Raleigh better um you share everything with everyone um and that's why I find it very difficult myself to start with because I'm a very private person and I still am proud person but I learned to deal with it more there's no problems you can't go anywhere here to get space for privacy there's always someone around you you have to be with people just it's very difficult to get away for your own time so that's one thing I had to learn to deal with Marie was William's team leader and he followed her orders taking his turn on the cleaning rotor yeah Marie I don't know she knows what she knows where her Bread's busted doesn't she that's all right well you've got to do the news I don't really don't worry about it I'll do it then thanks again marigolds are now officially a fascinating [Music] which is why I just I think I get along with these guys so well as well um people come out here to join rallies to get in their experience and to gain a bit of knowledge about other parts of the world and we'll get along so well because I I hope I don't come across as someone who's you know that I was trying to be treated differently by the staff or anything they'll treat me the same the local stream the same um and I just I love being having no restrictions you know William helped out in a local Nursery displaying the same easy rapport with children as his mother had [Music] thank you he also kept in touch with Harry by writing frequent postcards home the prince known there as will stood in as a disc jockey at a local radio station [Music] let's pick up to uh Ruthie we love you babe who are you listening if you actually listening and for any of you people who are in a bit of a bit of a Mood for Love William's performance impressed the Queen the Queen's very proud of William it took her a long time to really get to know him because she didn't see that much of him but she realizes that he has what it takes in her opinion to eventually be Monarch he he's a very amusing good fun guy but he does know when to stop and he knows that you know that the time has to come when you have to be serious so I think he's very well balanced which pleases her and of course he's a gorgeous looking guy and the queen is always like rather Macho gorgeous looking men so she obviously very proud of her grandson William originally went to Saint Andrews to study history of art but he grew unhappy with the course friends including Kate Middleton persuaded him to change to geography after his first year rather than drop out of University altogether geography was a better choice he settled down to his studies determined to succeed and gain a good degree he consulted his tutor about his last piece of coursework and and how's the writing up going yeah the writing that's not going quite so well I've got this much notes but I've only written about 2000 words and the deadline's getting it's getting pretty worryingly close now yes but I'm gonna want some I get everything else sorted that's going on around us um I will um get stuck into it yes so I'll get most of it the student prints worked hard for his finals this was his chance to shine among his contemporaries he was also planning to exert his authority when he finished at Saint Andrews I really do want to be in control of my own life and you know if I don't agree with what someone was saying or someone's pushing on me then I I won't do it um if I'm wrong and they're right and people tell me that then obviously I changed my mind you know I'm I'm always open for people saying you know I'm wrong because most I am but um you know I just I hate losing control um things very important to to you know see what you want to do and go for it at University William shared student interests like snooker [Applause] well public relations experts had to create an action man image for Charles there was no need in William's case he's extremely athletic and a strong swimmer he also loves diving and surfing he seems the perfect Prince Harry and William have been close since Nursery days they share many interests such as Polo but there is an academic gap between them Harry didn't go to university as young Brothers William and Harry were incredibly University and I think Harry found that quite difficult because he'd lost his soul mate he'd lost his confidence and I know through friends that he did find that very difficult and William would come back at weekends especially to be with Harry Harry's troubles reflect the loss of his mother two years younger than William he was less able to deal with the tragedy Temptations of nightlife have sometimes proved too much for him the ever Vigilant press Mina Prince has to be careful even in his private life or unwelcome headlines will be the result [Music] Harry gained a reputation for hard partying and hard drinking sometimes he lost control and lashed out at photographers Charles II has an uneven temper he can hardly blame Harry for inheriting it but his Tantrums swearing and poor team spirit can be embarrassing and watching it must be nerve-wracking for a concerned father hot-headed Harry is not easy to calm and Charles often doesn't know what to say for the best his hesitancy has sometimes failed to curb Harry's unruliness being second born can mean second best in the Royal pecking order but Harry has a competitive streak and likes to come first Harry has sort of been the one to to step into the media Spotlight more than than William I mean he's the one who became associated with with girls at a younger age he was the wild child he was the one who we saw drinking out of beer bottles smoking cigarettes at Polo matches and suddenly the focus shifted onto him William very much like his mother downcast eyes didn't want to get drawn in prefer to blend into the background very hard for a young man who's six foot four but he's done it pretty well um Harry doesn't seem to remind so much he doesn't seem to care he just sort of takes it and and deals with it William has had the advantage of the palace publicity machine to groom His Image but is he really more like Harry I think it's very easy to label William a good boy and very easy to label Harry a bad boy I absolutely don't think that's the case I've heard so many stories about William that that truly reflect that he is a party animal he's incredibly gregarious he's very vivacious I just think he's more careful than Harry to be perfectly honest the three princes have a special bond after Diana's death it was important to present a public image of family Unity but as William once revealed there can be tensions between them we get along you know really well her and I and my father you know we're a very close family um the disagreements obviously as a famous D and when they are that you know epic disagreements um but when there's happy times we have you know really good time um it's just you know it's difficult getting all three of us in the same house at one point because obviously father's really busy William has taken an interest in Charles's major charity the prince's trust which helps underprivileged young people to start their own businesses he's defensive about media criticism of his father it's had a difficult time and um you know it's it's it's just sad I said this last time I'm sure he's the same words but I just wish you know more of his charitable work was concentrated on um because he does do a hell of a lot of work and the princess trust is just an amazing you know you know um organization and um you know I just I really hold him in great admiration about the amount of time he gives up to do um work here and there in June 2005 William graduated with honors from Saint Andrews University he had earned his degree without special favors his girlfriend Kate Middleton graduated on the same day William had tried to Shield her from publicity and was annoyed when their secret romance was revealed in the press the previous year however Kate has won favor with the public and the palace the palace theater in every respect and she comes with very little baggage she has all the prerequisites of a princess um she's discreet she's loyal she's been a good friend to William she's been sensible she encouraged him to stay on at University when his instinct told him that it wasn't for him and he ought to give up and I think this is exemplified in the fact that she is brought out at very public Royal engagements and that wouldn't have happened um with Kate if she wasn't absolutely right absolutely perfect and have all of those attributes which he very clearly does and this is very much a young woman who is a princess and waiting after his graduation ceremony William must have realized that without Kate's good influence he would have missed this great milestone sadly Diana didn't live to see either her son's happiness with Kate or the Fulfillment of Charles's relationship with Camilla I think Diane would be would be happy to see William with such a nice girl and I think Diana would be very happy that Charles ended up with Camilla rather than someone else because it was Camilla that caused all the trouble in their marriage and I really really think that at the end of her life Diana was not worried by Camilla anymore and she thought as I've gone through all this heartache and pain at least he's ended up with her she would have been awful to go through all that heartache and pain and him ended up with someone else in February 2005 the marriage that had once seemed impossible was announced just prior to Charles's wedding the three princes who share a passion for skiing made a trip to closters in Switzerland they agreed to an arranged photo call in exchange for privacy on the slopes became clear that William is protective of his father can I know how you are feeling how in particular princess William and Harry are feeling at the prospect of the marriage very happy yes very much so definitely lose the Rings I'm all right the Chance's words had been picked up by the ranks of Pressman to the discomfort of his sons I think the boys are embarrassed about their father's behavior in the way Sons Sons are often embarrassed by their own fathers um outside the royal family um in the way I dare say that Prince Charles was embarrassed as a Young Man by the Duke of Edinburgh outspoken remarks from time to time um having said that I think they share some of his prejudices and they don't particularly like the intrusion that comes with being a member of the royal family William in particular still finds it hard to deal with he's been enormously protective of his girlfriend in a way we've never seen before and it's understandable if at times the Royal sort of lose it when they see someone they don't particularly like in front of them asking questions they don't particularly want to answer on April the 9th 2005 Charles married Camilla in a civil ceremony at Windsor's register office in the presence of William and Harry he didn't want to share the burden that's been thrust on him you know he's only Prince of Wales by an accident of birth and anybody who spends any length of time with the royal family knows that this is not a job you a sensible person would would relish you don't look forward to it you know it's a life sentence and you can never retire he needs somebody that understands what that involves what That Hideous job of being King and waiting involves and I think he would have found somebody he needs a mate for a long time perhaps he just would have been happy with a mistress but being a king you can't just have a mistress you've got to make it all legal and put a nice sort of veneer on it also he got married Ministry training was considered as necessary for William and Harry as it had been for Charles in childhood both young princes had played at being soldiers William dressed up in the uniform of the parachute regiment Harry had some early lessons in tank driving his ambition to join the Army remained into adult life he went to Sandhurst as an officer Cadet after an extended Gap year it was hoped that Army discipline would sort out his disorderly Behavior I think Prince Harry has come through that period um I think there was a very tricky spell uh towards the end of his school years at Eaton but the Army really was seen as the uh the last chance to sort him out and by all accounts it has sorted in that um he plays hard there's no question about that he enjoys smoking he enjoys drinking with his friends but you know what uh 21 year old 22 year old doesn't and you know he's entitled to let off steam Charles is more more concerned about the fact that whenever he does he seems to get caught in the public eye and he feels that's very unfair Charles joined the Royal Navy in the tradition of his grandfather King George VI and Prince Philip his father who was on active service in the Navy throughout World War II Charles served on several ships eventually commanding the mine hunter HMS bronington away from family and friends for long periods he relied on the camaraderie of his fellow officers okay he also joined the Fleet air arm taking a conversion course to enable him to Pilot helicopters on board carriers this was one part of his training he really did appreciate to say very briefly how much I have enjoyed this entire course entirely due I think to the hard work put in by all these Splendid Chaps in Red Dragon but thank you all once again for for having me here I've enjoyed it enormously thank you William is training to be an officer in the British army before following Harry into Sandhurst he prepared for the tough regime by spending two weeks with the RAF Valley Mountain Rescue Team in Wales he took part in a rescue exercise in January 2006 Sandhurst gained its most senior recruit as a Cadet William would undergo rigorous training in a program which can push recruits to exhaustion he was still a student when he planned stage one of his military career sunhouse itself would be a great place to learn how to lead and to you know get earn respect Cadet Wales threw himself into the role repeating all the Maneuvers that Harry had done before him Williams training continued with the Army keeping the Press at Bay he's off limits he can really live the life of a soldier but I think we're only looking about 18 months now before we see William launched as a full-time Royal they are waiting to do it they know the palace the powers that be at the palace that William needs to be relevant for the monarchy to continue in its present form Harry finished his Sandhurst course with the traditional passing out parade the queen and Prince Philip were there to see him he is now a second lieutenant in the Blues and Royals in the household Cavalry William also wants to serve his country in the same regiment when he completes his course the fact that is there's no way William could go serving on the front line in Afghanistan or Iraq it's simply too dangerous after he does his year in the Blues and Royals they do a stint in the Army the stint in the RAF and a stint in the Royal Navy each to get an understanding of what happens after that he'll be a full-time Royals with engagements William and Harry now show their affection for Camilla while they cherish Diana's memory they accept that Camilla has made their father happy and as adults they have their own lives to lead William is shown as a prince in touch with ordinary people through the national game of football before the World Cup began he met Wayne Rooney and other members of the England squad to wish them well he takes his role as president of the Football Association seriously the pirate football is is huge and uh I think it needs to be honest and at the same time the sportsmanship side of football I think is a real key issue to focus on and uh let's get guys on these and girls who are coming through realizing you know that the the role they have and the uh the importance and the respect they can earn as being a good football owner with respectful footballer William has helped to train young footballers just as Harry has coached rugby hopefuls what does the public now expect for the Two Princes I think what we'll be looking for in both boys is obviously a happy Union for them both I mean William will obviously be under pressure almost immediately you know is this a union that can last can can the Queen's grandchildren make happy marriages where her own children couldn't um there is no pressure on William in in the way there was on his father to marry someone of a noble background he can marry pretty much whoever he likes and certainly that applies to Harry too I mean Harry's been dating a South African girl off and on for the last 18 months there's no reason why he shouldn't marry this girl if he should want to Chelsea is vivacious the antithesis of demure Kate their wealthy but ordinary backgrounds presented a problem for Old Guard courtiers Chelsea is accepted as the girl girlfriend but she's nowhere near accepted as the Royal girlfriend in the way that Kate is they're forgetting that these girls I really have that common type they do a lot to woo an apathetic public and revive interest in the monarchy the queen paid tribute to Diana I remember especially the happiness she gave to my two grandsons the queen has restored popularity in the monarchy since the uneasy days after Diana's death as Charles's mother has grown older and his sons have grown up he has had to wait and watch Charles has been there in this position being groomed for the role of the Monarch for many many years it's been it's been there for him since the beginning so if he was to hand over I think perhaps he might feel he'd been cheated of something I think a lot of this stems from public appetite and public argument it's the public that would perhaps prefer to see William take power over his father William upstages his father just the way Diana always did it's it's very difficult for William his more glamorous he's better looking he resembles his mother and he's got a gorgeous girlfriend now anybody like that is going to put somebody who's a bit of an old fogy approaching 60 terribly in the shade you know that's just the way of the world there's nothing they can do about it so if William and Kate get married soon who's going to bother who's going to be interested in Charles and Camilla already there's a lot of apathy about them when Charles visited Australia just before his wedding he got a poor reception it was very different to the welcome given the same week to Prince Frederick of Denmark and his australian-born wife Princess Mary she is now considered Kate Middleton's role model as two of Britain's most important ambassadors Charles and Camilla try hard but they are competing against the Glamorous image of younger Royals at home and abroad in May 2006 William attended the wedding of Camilla's daughter Laura to former Calvin Klein model Harry Lopez [Music] William was now seen in public with Kate with her expert grooming we had a glimpse of her potential as his future bride is with Kate and he's found companionship and happiness at least if he's going to take on this role there's someone that he loves and trusts and has full faith in that he can go and do that role with I mean going into something like that alone must be a terribly terribly lonely Prospect William's role will grow significantly in the next few years and with it his popularity the question remains who will the public want as their next King William or Charles 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 Diana 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] of the chase soon lost its attraction holiday Diana often needed help from a 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 thank you 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 I shouldn't think Prince Charles got the slightest clue what it could possibly be like to be Camilla how could he the whole rarified way in which he was brought up the rarefied 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 majorcon 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 his 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 Dino 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 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 panists 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 it was nonsense she's not very well you know it is 300 years of arrogant in breeding 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] Charles believed just to the to a thousand 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're 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 extraordinary 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've 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 the more broken homes are a 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 keppel 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 especially 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 mountbatten 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 his his um he's not been able to make up his own mind he's dalid 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 boli Hyde Manor in Wiltshire to be to 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 enter 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 Anna's 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 honeymoon 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 job 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 the queen 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 foreign 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 you 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 Diana 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 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 life 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 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 I was Erica wants some saw a television show where someone described her as looking like a bag full of spanners which baffle 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 two 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 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 its concealed situation primarily so as not to upset anyone else it's not so just so much deceitfulness 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 alike mad 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 need to 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 Charles and made in 1989 [Music] I like that program stop a week I can't stop a week without you it pretty quickly became clear that this was indeed Charles and Camilla it was what the person who 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 gonna 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 uh 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 she 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 Bowles 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 in 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 wheelchair mansion's ornate rooms its antique furniture and the king-sized canopy bed at the time of his divorce in 1996 Charles and Camilla were secretly photographed together at the Welsh home of their friends Nick and Suki paravaccini the Press had been tipped off by a mystery woman [Music] in June 1997 Camilla crashed 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 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 as 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 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 and 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 so 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 Camilo 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 square Rocky 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 less 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 dress 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 um 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 there's horses there's shooting there's everything that he and Harry and and little William love 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 and 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 thank you [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 Bowles 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 produced 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 is 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 annuled so that she would no longer have the stigma of divorce over her head but even then would Charles marry her I think it's because she's been so uncomplaining over the years that she's still there she's still trucking on you know that's people think oh this is the most enduring love affair I mean it's it's availability isn't it I mean thirdly she's there it's all on a plate for him of course she amuses him and attains 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

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Published: Fri May 19 2023