When Queen Camilla and Princess Anne were love rivals

Today the princess Anna and the queen consort Camilla according to the British press they are linked by an affectionate friendship. But there was a time when the two – so the gossip says – they could not be seen. By way of a love triangle which shook the British crown. It all started in June 1970, just before Anna’s 20th birthday. It was then that the princess set off a secret relationship with the thirty year old Andrew Parker Bowles. Army officer, son of close friends of Queen Mother Elizabethrather attractive, Andrew already had one at the time push-and-pull relationship with another girl: Camilla Shandprecisely.

Camilla and Andrew had started dating in the second half of the 60s. But to the handsome officer the relationship with Shand alone was close: he was coveted, courted and young and did not deny himself the female company outside the couple. Naturally, Camilla’s “distractions” didn’t suit her, so did the two boys they were on and off periodically. It was just in one of these periods off that Andrew started the affair with Anna. A report that – the experts say – she wouldn’t be sorry to Queen Elizabeth, let alone to the queen mother she held under control all the loves of the grandchildrenin view of their future and opportune weddings. But Andrew, handsome and handsome as he is, he couldn’t be Anna’s man. First because he was Catholic, therefore a marriage with the daughter of the head of the Anglican Church was unthinkable. And then there was Camilla Shand. Anne, aware of his role at court and disinclined to sentimentalitySo he closed the report.

In July 1973 Andrew (apparently) settled down and married Camilla Shand. Anna was also invited to the wedding, which was celebrated in the Catholic rite on July 4 in the Guards Chapel in London, who arrived with the boyfriend Mark Phillips, married then on 14 November of the same year in Westminster Abbey. Anna and Mark had two children: Peter (b. 1977)e Zadar (1981). But in 1985 the princess discovered that the husband also had a secret daughter, conceived with a New Zealand girl when he was already married to her. Four years later the couple announced their separation. And Anna, with the official divorce in 1992, became the first of the Windsor brothers to cause a scandal by breaking up their marriage.

Just at that time, according to gossip, the princess tried to fill the void with a very complicated relationship: while his brother Charles cheated on Diana with Camillashe reconnected a short secret relationship with Andrew Parker Bowlesthe husband of Camilla. A complicated interweaving of hearts (and horns) of which there is no evidence but which has caused rivers of ink to spill. In spite of the ancient royal soapAnyway, Andrew’s relationship with his ex Anna and Camilla has long been excellent. The former officer is the godfather of Zara, second daughter of Princess Anna, and in 2005 he was among the guests at Camilla’s wedding with Carlo.

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