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A s of next month’s coronation, the Queen Consort will at last have ascended to the title of Queen – not Consort, not common-law, but fully legit It’s partly because she never gives interviews and partly because she doesn’t reveal much in her actions, which are standardly royal, but not very disclosing: good deeds and horses, essentially. It’s partly because she has functioned, for decades, as a cipher for other conversations. What do we think of adultery, marriage, divorce, the royal family, the leisure class, the finer gradations of social hierarchy? Of Charles? Of Diana? These debates have played out in sometimes hideously microscopic detail, with Camilla as object, but never subject. The result is that she is never more obscure than when everyone is talking about her. I mean object and subject in the grammatical sense, of course. The question of Camilla as a subject of the realm – and the attendant posh axioms about whether or not a prince can marry a subject, and who on earth he is supposed to marry if not – we will get to later. (The answer seems to be a cousin, or a German, or a German cousin.) Yet, thanks to the meticulous labours of royal-watchers, the bones of her life are known. These are the five ages of the queen-to-be. 1947-64: a remarkable childhood No, no, nothing truly remarkable happened – don’t get excited. Born in King’s College hospital in south London, to Rosalind née Cubitt and Bruce Shand, Camilla had plenty of notables in her family tree – includin...

last index=2 Array ( [0] => [1] => culture [2] => 19-things-you-didnt-know-about-camilla-queen-consort-of-the-united-kingdom ) WP_Term Object ( [term_id] => 983 [name] => Culture [slug] => culture [term_group] => 0 [term_taxonomy_id] => 983 [taxonomy] => category [description] => [parent] => 0 [count] => 581 [filter] => raw [cat_ID] => 983 [category_count] => 581 [category_description] => [cat_name] => Culture [category_nicename] => culture [category_parent] => 0 ) check====culture Camilla, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom, otherwise known as Camilla Parker Bowles, is a down-to-earth country girl who has won the hearts of the British people with her natural, genuine demeanour – just as she did her now-husband, King Charles when they met 52 years ago. Although she was born into an upper-class family, Camilla never puts on airs. “I have so many friends who, if I ever even vaguely look like getting uppity, which touch wood I never have, they would just say, ‘Look, come on, pull yourself together! Don’t be so bloody grand!’” she said in a rare interview in the Daily Mail’s You Magazine. A former flatmate even says she kept her bedroom in a state of chaos, reports Vanity Fair. Camilla Parker Bowles’ engagement ring has a five-carat emerald cut diamond in the centre and three diamond baguettes on each side with a gold band. Not only is the ring stunning, but it also has historical significance. The Queen Consort’s ring once belonged to The Queen Mother, King Charles’ grandmot...

King Charles III’s wife has been officially identified as Queen Camilla for the first time, with Buckingham Palace using the title on invitations for the monarch’s May 6 coronation. Camilla, who until now has been described asqueen consort,is given equal billing on the ornate medieval style invitations that will be sent to more than 2,000 guests and were unveiled on Tuesday. The new title is another step in the remarkable transformation of a woman once derided as a homewrecker because of her role in the breakdown of Charles’ marriage to the late Princess Diana. Charles and Camilla met long before the future king married Diana in 1981 and their relationship continued throughout the tumultuous marriage. That made Camilla an object of scorn among Diana’s many fans, who rallied around the princess as her marriage collapsed. But Camilla has won over much of the British public with her warmth and down-to-earth humor since she married Charles in a civil ceremony in 2005. The late Queen Elizabeth II early last year issued a statement saying she hoped Camilla would be known as “queen consort” when Charles became king. Camilla will be crowned alongside her husband onMay 6 at Westminster Abbey. The palace released a few more details about the coronation on Tuesday, announcing that 9-year-old Prince George, the king’s eldest grandson, who issecond in line to the throne,would be one of four pages of honor attending the monarch during the service. Camilla will also have four pages. The ...

This May, Camilla will officially be crowned as Queen Consort, a role and title she has held ever since the passing of Queen Elizabeth II in September of last year. In the past few months, we have witnessed her transformation from the Duchess of Cornwall to this new, more high-profile position, giving us a taste of what to expect from our new Queen Consort. Her inaugural moments were, of course, marked by a period of national mourning. Here, she took on the immediate task of supporting her husband; accompanying him to each and every official event which took place, excelling in everything from tempering his frustrations (the now infamous 'pen gate') to intimate moments of condolence, spied through the windows of their car. Throughout it all, Camilla's preference for inhabiting a muted, calm presence in the background, was clear. It was in fact the new Chris Jackson // Getty Images It is a far cry from the part that Camilla will play in May, where she, following Since taking on her new role, Camilla has embarked on many solo engagements of her own, though always with the same un-showy, self-deprecating air. Her behaviour as Queen Consort thus far is very much in keeping with a woman who never once dreamed she would find herself in this position, not even after she first struck up a romantic entanglement with the future King. After all, with her iconic Farrah Fawcett hair, a plummy ex-smoker's voice and an affair which made her the nation’s ‘Other Woman’ behind her, Camilla ...

Ahead of the coronation, Take through a few notable photos taken over the course of Camilla's life. 1952: Camilla is a flower girl Bridesmaids and sisters 4-year-old Camilla and 3-year-old Annabelle Shand, at the wedding of Jeremy Cubitt and Diana du Cane in 1952. William Vanderson / Getty Images Camilla was born Camilla Rosemary Shand on July 17, 1947 in London. She grew up in East Sussex and was raised by her father Bruce, a British army officer, and her mother Rosemary Shand, per The oldest of three siblings, Camilla attended 1973: Camilla marries Andrew Parker Bowles Camilla Shand and Major Andrew Parker Bowles at their wedding in 1973. Getty Images In July 1973, Camilla married Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles in London at the Guards Chapel. They had two 1979: Charles and Camilla socialize Charles And Camilla Parker Bowles in 1979. Tim Graham / Getty Images In this photo taken in 1979, a year before Camilla, 24, and Charles, 22, fell in love in the summer of 1971, per Penny Junor's biography "The Duchess." At the time, Camilla was also linked to Andrew Parker Bowles, whom she'd been seeing since the '60s. According to Junor, Charles and Camilla were introduced by a mutual friend, Lucia Santa Cruz. During their introduction, Santa Cruz poked fun at their ancestors' connection: Alice Keppel, Camilla's great-grandmother, per "In Lucia's first-floor flat that evening, there was an immediate attraction between the two of them and an instant rapport," Junor wrote. "Charles lo...

Tim Rooke/Shutterstock She’s very laid-back—even untidy! Camilla, queen consort of the United Kingdom, otherwise known as Camilla Parker Bowles, is a down-to-earth country girl who has won the hearts of the British people with her natural, genuine demeanor—just as she did her now-husband, Daily Mail’s You Magazine. A former flatmate even says she kept her bedroom in a state of chaos, reports Vanity Fair. Max Mumby/Indigo/Getty Images Her engagement ring has historical significance Camilla Parker Bowles’s engagement ring has a five-carat emerald cut diamond in the center and three diamond baguettes on each side, with a gold band. Not only is the ring stunning, but it also has historical significance. The queen consort’s ring once belonged to the queen mother, King Charles’s grandmother. Another Globe Photos/mediapunch/Shutterstock She had many titles before queen consort Camilla has had the title of queen consort since Queen Elizabeth’s death. Before then, though, she had multiple titles—and they were complex. When she married Charles, then Prince of Wales, she became entitled to use the style Her Royal Highness and also received the title Duchess of Cornwall. Legally, she was also entitled to the title Princess of Wales but didn’t use it out of respect for its former title holder, When in Scotland, Camilla was known as the Duchess of Rothesay. She also had two Foreign Orders: Order of the Star of Melanesia (Papua New Guinea) 2012 and the Grand-Croix, Ordre Nationale...

In May 2023, King Charles III and his wife Camilla, queen consort, officially took the throne and became the ruling monarchs of the United Kingdom. However, even though she's one of the most famous women in the world, Camilla has remained somewhat of an enigma over the years. From her highly publicized affair with then-Prince Charles, to her time in the spotlight after the death of Princess Diana, and finally all the way to the coronation, Camilla likes to keep a relatively low profile. According to However, there's another possible narrative about Camilla's relationship with the press. According to her stepson, Prince Harry, the queen consort has a close relationship with the media, and she may have even used her close contacts very intentionally, in order to sway public opinion. To that end, read on for a look at things Camilla's friends have said about her ... some of which were at her explicit direction. According to Camilla's childhood friend William Shawcross, the Shand home was an enjoyable one to be around. "Fun was one of the main things I remember about the Shand household," he told Vanity Fair. "There were ponies, dogs, picnics. There was no pomp, no snobbery, but a lot of fun for all ages. The Shands were a happy clan." Shawcross then elaborated on Camilla's childhood. He painted a picture of the future queen consort as an adventurous young girl, one who liked to explore the world around her. "Rosalind used to let Camilla and Annabel go on riding-and-camping ni...