Prince William and Princess Kate’s Relationship With Queen Camilla Through the Years
13.05.2023 - 15:21
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A blended family! After Queen Camilla married King Charles III in April 2005, his two sons eventually came around to the idea of having a stepmother.
While the king previously dated Camilla as a teenager, they ultimately married other people. Charles, for his part, wed Princess Diana in 1981 and welcomed sons Prince William and Prince Harry in 1982 and 1984, respectively. Camilla had gotten married eight years earlier to Andrew Parker Bowles. Camilla and Andrew also share two children: Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes.
Charles and Camilla were later involved in an extramarital affair scandal. They each got divorced in 1996 and later started to publicly date. When the former Prince of Wales was keen to propose to Camilla, both of his sons were wary.
“Despite Willy and me urging him not to, Pa was going ahead. We pumped his hand, wished him well. No hard feelings,” Harry claimed in his Spare memoir, which was published in January 2023. “We recognized that he was finally going to be with the woman he loved, the woman he’d always loved, the woman Fate might’ve intended for him in the first place. Whatever bitterness or sorrow we felt over the closing of another loop in Mummy’s story, we understood that it was besides the point.”
The Duke of Sussex and William’s mother, Diana, had previously alleged in multiple tell-all interviews that there were “three people” in her marriage, referring to Charles and Camilla’s affair. Diana ultimately died in a fatal car crash in August 1997 when Harry and William were 12 and 15, respectively.
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The Prince of Wales and Harry ultimately made their peace with His Majesty’s union with the Reading Room founder, however, they reportedly made it