What did Camilla Parker Bowles look like when she met Charles?

It was in 1970 that Camilla made, for the first time, the meeting of the one who would become King Charles III, during a polo match. She is 23 years old and he is 28 years old. However, their little relationship was only short-lived since the queen’s son joined the Royal Navy fairly quickly and then married a certain Diana Spencer in 1981. It was finally in 1996 that the name of Camilla Shand, now Camilla Parker Bowles since her marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973, resurfaced. Indeed, four years after separating from Charles, Diana Spencer mentions in her biography that her former husband had an extramarital affair with Camilla.

Camilla Parker Bowles and Charles: a civil marriage in 2005

Finally, Diana Spencer dies in 1997 in a car accident and Prince Charles hides less and less his relationship with his new companion, divorced from her first husband since 1995. In 2005, he even decides to ask her to marry. A civil union which finally took place on April 9 of that same year at the Windsor Guildhall. Since that date, Camilla Shand is officially Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall and Duchess of Rothesay and she is an integral part of the British royal family. It will become this May 6, 2023, the day of the official coronation of Charles III, the new Queen of England.