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Camilla and the “nervous breakdown” that threatened to blow up the wedding with Prince Charles

Camilla Shand, Duchess of Cornwall, has waited a lifetime for her marriage to Charles of England. Yet in theApril 2005 the fateful “yes” risked jumping. A few days before the wedding the Duchess began to suffer from a form of sinusitis sharp enough to lock her in bed. And his friends wondered: “Will he be able to get to the altar?” But above all Camilla, as revealed by the royal biographer Penny Junior, was “scared». «More than sinusitis, it was a nervous breakdown that blocked her under the covers“. A friend of the couple, Lucia Santa Cruz, in fact revealed to the Junior: “The approach of the wedding day was stressing her a lot. He literally couldn’t get out of bed. ”

As per tradition, Camilla spent the night before the wedding separated from Carlo. Stayed in Clarence House with his daughter Laura, your sister Sonia Annabel Elliot and some attendants ready to help her with the preparations for the big day. It seems that Sonia was very important in dragging Camilla out of bed: “Okay, if you don’t dress alone, I’ll dress you,” he said jokingly. “I’ll put you in your wedding dress“. Eventually the Duchess took courage, dressed up, left Clarence House and joined Carlo a Windsor Guildhall, where the civil marriage was finally performed followed by a blessing at St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle.

That April 9, 2005 Camilla crowned a dream pursued for decades. It was 1971 when the first meeting with Carlo took place. But the queen Elizabeth II immediately broke off the relationship with a definitive judgment on Shand: “An infrequent girl”. Camilla in 1973 she said “yes” to her official boyfriend Andrew Parker-Bowles, Carlo in 1981 he married Diana. The two were lovers, and adulterous lovers, for 32 years. Until the wedding that risked jumping due to a nervous breakdown of the bride.

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