Duchess Camilla Opens Up About Prioritizing Prince Charles Marriage Amid Busy Schedules: ‘It’s Not Easy’
19.06.2022 - 18:45
/ usmagazine.com
Making the most of their marriage! After 17 years of wedded bliss, Prince Charles and Duchess Camilla have amassed a few tricks to keep their spark alive.
“It’s not easy sometimes, but we do always try to have a point in the day when we meet,” the Duchess of Cornwall, 74, told British Vogue in a rare interview published on Saturday, June 18. “Sometimes it’s like ships passing in the night, but we always sit down together and have a cup of tea and discuss the day. We have a moment.”
She continued: “It’s lovely to catch up when we have a bit of time. You know when we go away, the nicest thing is that we actually sit and read our books in different corners of the same room. It’s very relaxing because you know you don’t have to make conversation. You just sit and be together.”
While Camilla and the Prince of Wales, 73, bonded in their youths, they eventually went on to marry other people. Camilla, for her part, went on to marry Andrew Parker Bowles, with whom she shares son Tom and daughter Laura. Amid their 1995 divorce, she reconnected with Charles — who was going through his own separation from Princess Diana. (Charles and Diana, who died in 1997, shared sons Prince William and Prince Harry.) The public’s adoration for the late Princess of Wales often impacted The Duchess of Cornwall’s Reading Room founder and her role in the royal family after she wed Charles in 2005.
“It’s not easy,” Camilla told the magazine in the Saturday profile. “I was scrutinized for such a long time that you just have to find a way to live with it. Nobody likes to be looked at all the time and, you know, criticized … But I think in the end, I sort of rise above it and get on with it. You’ve got to get on with life.”
While Camilla never assumed the