Rumors and even bits of historical facts seem to suggest that the connection of Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall never really went away even when he got married to the late Princess Diana. So it is interesting when a recent report recalls accounts from royal experts that Camilla was one of the people who advised Prince Charles into marrying the would-be mother of his two sons.
Daily Express took note of a report from Vanity Fair’s Tina Brown in the mid-80s. It purportedly claimed that Prince Charles was pressured into getting married by some people in his family, the media, and even the public clamor when rumors started to circulate that things are getting very serious between him and Princess Diana.
Brown reportedly said that Prince Charles was close to several “married women.” Prince Charles is believed to have first met Camilla in 1971, and they later started a relationship but then broke up a couple of years after. She got married to Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973 but got divorced in 1995.
A decade later, Daily Express recounts per Brown’s report that Camilla remained one of Prince Charles’s favorite confidants along with Lady Tryon. The women, after meeting Princess Diana, reportedly thought she was much better for Prince Charles compared to Anna Wallace.
The media at the time had nicknamed her “Whiplash Wallace” and reports have it that she rejected marriage proposals from the top-ranking royal twice. Possibly after going through a couple of rejections, with pressures from the media and the public, and the reported advice of his two close friends, Prince Charles allegedly became “exhausted” and went on to propose to Diana.
As fans of the British royal family already know, the last years of Prince Charles’s marriage to Princess Diana were not pretty. They officially separated in late 1992 — about three years since an intimate phone conversation between Camilla and Prince Charles were leaked to the public. Prince Charles and Princess Diana ultimately got divorced in August 1996, a year before she died from an unfortunate car crash in Paris.
