Camilla, the future queen consort who conquered everyone (except Harry)

Maybe not everyone knows that Camilla Shand, Duchess of Cornwall and future queen consort of England, she does not have pierced ears. She revealed it herself in her first interview with British Vogue released on the eve of his 75th birthday. “My granddaughters insist that I have to pierce my earlobes, but I won’t give in, I won’t get this birthday present,” she joked with her. aristocratic tone (“What you can only have if you were born in a certain period in a certain environment”, he specifies Giles Hattersley who interviewed her), reiterating her being ironic and decisive, but also flexible at the right point.

For years Camilla – born Shand, married (and later divorced) Parker Bowles, and finally Duchess of Cornwall and future queen consort for explicit “desire” of Elizabeth II – it was nothing but “The other woman”. The “ugly” she had rendered Lady Di’s wedding “too crowded” (as Diana herself said in the famous interview with the BBC of 1995 doing infuriate the teenage Prince William) and who had made the beautiful and beloved princess of the people suffer. For Penny Junorauthor of The Duchess (William Collins, 2018), “people only knew Camilla from what Diana said about her. And at the time she was calling her rottweiler“.

After Lady Di’s death in 1997, the dislike towards her almost became contempt: «Now he will have free field» said the most malicious, thinking that his only purpose in life was to enter a Buckingham Palace. It was not an easy time for Camilla: «I have been examined for so long that in the end I realized that I had to find a way to live with it. And I moved on, even though I think no one likes to always be looked at and criticized», He tells today to Vogue her, whose only fault had been to be loved deeply and sincerely.

But the champions of true love – who defended with the sword that of the young Diana for her (in their opinion unworthy) prince charming – they did not recognize the deep feeling that bound Carlo to Camilla. In which he had found not only a love, but also a friend, a support, the same vision of life and sharing of interests, in short, the ideal life partner. What had been the Prince Philip for his mother (and vice versa) and that he – according to his biographers – was looking for and certainly had not found in Diana.

It was the time but to agree with Camilla. That today, at almost 75 years old, and thanks also to the intervention of the Queen, she has finally managed to rise in the popularity rating of the British. She did it by showing herself for what she is: a woman aristocratic but not far from reality, well integrated into Firm but with his own active life even outside the Royal Family (she is very attached to her children’s boys, with whom she plays Wordle every day: “We learn a lot from the kids and they learn from us: that’s how it must be,” he says). Cultured, ironicfull of interests, attentive to the promotion of the arts e open to news: the success of his literary Instagram profile The Duchess of Cornwall’s Reading Room proves it, “I barely knew what Instagram was, I didn’t even know where to look for it: seeing the profile take off was amazingHe said.