When Camilla got engaged in 1973, Prince Charles was devastated. Royal author Penny Junor wrote in The Duchess: The Untold Story how Camilla ‘’broke Charles’s heats’’ when she revealed to him that she was getting married.
“In March 1973, when Charles was thousands of miles away in the West Indies, Andrew asked Camilla to marry him and she agreed. She wrote to Charles herself to tell him. It broke his heart. He fired off anguished letters to his nearest and dearest. He has always been a prolific letter-writer. It seemed to him particularly cruel, he wrote in one letter, that after ‘such a blissful, peaceful and mutually happy relationship’ fate had decreed that it should only last a mere six months. He now had ‘no one’ to go back to in England. ‘I suppose the feeling of emptiness will pass eventually.'”
Prince Charles and Camilla were in a relationship during the 1970s, but after everyone thought that she is not suitable to be his wife, they ended their romance, and Charles married Diana in 1981. However, the royal couple divorced in 1996, four years after they separated, all because of Camilla. Princess Diana revealed in a 1995 Panorama interview, “Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”
In an interview with broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby for the documentary Charles: The Private Man, The Public Role, Mr. Dimbleby asked, “Did you try to be faithful and honorable to your wife when you took on the vow of marriage?” Prince Charles replied, “Yes, absolutely,” adding that he was faithful until it became irretrievably broken down, us both having tried.”
Prince Charles and Camilla married in 2005.
Source: www.express.co.uk
