They got married that July in what became known as the "wedding of the century," but the whirlwind romance didn't last long. The affair came to an end in 1981, after Charles and Diana announced their engagement. "She was his best friend, his soulmate, and, after the death of his great-uncle, lover." "Camilla was the only person to whom he could talk about anything," Koenig wrote in the History Extra article. Koenig told Insider that Charles and Camilla began their first affair in 1979, shortly after the Irish Republican Army assassinated his great-uncle Louis Mountbatten. "Camilla had a history, and you didn't want a past that hung about," Patricia Knatchbull, Charles' godmother, told the royal biographer Gyles Brandreth, who wrote the 2007 book " Charles & Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair."Ĭharles and Camilla in the UK in 1979.
At the time, it was unheard of for a senior royal - much less the future king - to marry a woman who was no longer a virgin. Charles even wrote Camilla "elaborately-worded love notes."īut their relationship was doomed from the start. They bonded over a mutual love of horses and hunting and had frequent late-night talks over the phone.
Marlene Koenig, a royal expert who wrote about Charles and Camilla's relationship for BBC's History Extra, told Insider that the pair were instantly attracted to each other. I feel we have something in common," according to The Washington Post. A mutual friend introduced them, and they hit it off immediately.Ĭamilla introduced herself to the future king with the line: "My great-grandmother was the mistress of your great-great-grandfather. Charles and Camilla first met in 1970, when he was 22 and she was 24.
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