![]() Spoilers for season three. Obviously, The Crown isn't a retelling of historical events, but a narrative inspired by them. ![]() The rest is history.The Crown blames the royal family for Charles and Camilla's breakup. The couple began dating in 1980 and married the following year. Prince Charles eventually dated Lady Sarah Spencer in 1977, which is how he met her younger sister and his future bride Lady Diana Spencer. She pushed her grandson toward the granddaughters of her close friend and lady-in-waiting, Lady Ruth Fermoy. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother made designs too. Lord Mountbatten wanted his nephew to marry his granddaughter, Amanda Knatchball, author Carolly Erickson wrote in Lilibet: An Intimate Portrait of Elizabeth II. Prince Charles had family members playing matchmaker too. "His hand publicly forced, Andrew proposed." Other people had plans for the prince. "They intervened by publishing an engagement notice in The Times," Sally Bedell Smith wrote in Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life. His brother and Camilla's father wanted the bachelor to commit to his girlfriend of nearly seven years, so they reportedly hatched a plan. "But I think for a wife he should choose a suitable attractive and sweet-character girl before she has met anyone else she might fall for." Her dad conspired against her.Īndrew's proposal may have stemmed from more than just romance. "In a case like yours, the man should sow his wild oats and have as many affairs as he can before settling down," Lord Mountbatten wrote in a letter to Prince Charles. Secondly, deeply rooted sexism surrounding the prerequisite virginity of a royal bride doomed the match from the start. First of all, even though her maternal grandfather was a baron, Camilla did not come from a sufficiently aristocratic background to make her a serious contender for a future queen. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS // Getty ImagesĮven if both had professed their feelings for one another, Prince Charles and Camilla likely felt that they could never marry given royal protocol at the time. Prince Charles chats with Camilla Shand in an undated photo taken at a polo match. Camilla accepted the proposal and they wed the following year. ![]() Despite his well-established ways, Andrew finally proposed to his long-time girlfriend in March 1973, when Prince Charles was thousands of miles away in the West Indies. At one point, he was even seeing Princess Anne, Prince Charles's younger sister.Īccording to Juror, his status as an eligible bachelor "only made him more attractive" to Camilla. The ups and downs of their relationship also correlated with the officer's penchant for other women. ![]() Andrew was away himself with his regiment when Camilla connected with the prince. The couple shared an on-and-off relationship for the years that followed. "Andrew went over to her and simply said, 'Let's dance.' They danced and she fell in love." "He was 25 and a rather beautiful officer in the Household Cavalry she was 17 but remarkably self-assured," Juror says. Wood/Express/Hulton Archive // Getty ImagesĬamilla Shand met her first husband in 1965 at her debutante party. Camilla was in love with Andrew Parker Bowles.Ĭamilla Shand marries Major Andrew Parker Bowles at the Guards Chapel, Wellington Barracks, on July 4, 1973. His absence proved an opportunity for Camilla to reconnect with her longtime beau, Andrew Parker Bowles. Prince Charles was scheduled to leave on the HMS Frigate at the beginning of 1973 with the Royal Navy.īut instead of asking Camilla to wait for his return in eight months, he reportedly refrained from expressing the strength of his feelings. Their relationship had a deadline though. The two met up frequently at polo matches and later snuck secret time away at Broadlands, the estate belonging to his uncle Lord Mountbatten. He was instantly taken with her, especially because she was "not in anyway overawed by him, not fawning or sycophantic," royal biographer Penny Juror wrote in The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown. Prince Charles met his second wife through a mutual friend, Chilean historian Lucia Santa Cruz. Fox Photos/Hulton Archive // Getty Images Prince Charles attends the opening of the Prince of Wales Bastion in St Kitts in 1973 wearing his naval uniform.
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