The Royal Family make it known that British taxpayer money won’t be used to decorate Camilla’s rooms. It’s interpreted as a sign that she accepts the relationship. Ultimately, the Queen accepts an invitation to an event at Highgrove-a 60th birthday party for the King of Greece-knowing Camilla would be there. Getty Images 2000Ĭharles and Camilla still face the hurdle of getting the Queen’s official approval for their relationship-a key matter to enable Camilla to appear publicly at royal events, and potentially join the royal family. Due to the overwhelming outpouring of grief for Diana, Charles pauses his campaign to introduce the public to his relationship with Camilla.Ĭharles and Camilla enjoy a night out. As the world mourns the loss of the People’s Princess, Charles, along with Diana’s sisters, flies to Paris to bring Diana’s body back to England.Ĭharles, Prince Philip, Princes William and Harry, and Diana’s brother walk in the funeral procession as mourners line the streets and pile flowers in front of Diana’s residence at Kensington Palace. Shortly after Charles hosts a 50th birthday party for Camilla at his country home, Highgrove, Diana dies tragically in a car accident in Paris. 1996Ĭharles and Diana’s divorce is finalized. The BBC issued an apology for it in 2021, and ultimately stated that they would never re-air the interview. She says sadly, "Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."Ī later investigation would conclude that Diana’s brother, Earl Spencer, was “deceived and induced” by Bashir to arrange a meeting with the Princess, and that Bashir used deceptive practices to obtain her agreement to the interview. That November, Martin Bashir does a now-infamous televised interview with Diana where he asks if Camilla was a factor in the breakdown of her marriage. In January, Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles announce that they will divorce. He adds, "She has been a friend for a very long time-and will continue to be a friend for a very long time." 1995 Charles says, “Yes, yes…Until it became irretrievably broken down, us both having tried." The Prince also discusses Camilla, calling her "a great friend of mine," he said. The filmmaker, Jonathan Dimbleby, asks Charles if he was “faithful and honorable” during his marriage to Diana. When the documentary airs, one portion has the opposite effect. Prince Charles had allowed a documentary filmmaker to follow him for a year and a half in the hopes of repairing the damage to his reputation caused by the stories of his adultery. The news breaks only a month after transcripts of a secretly-recorded call between Diana and a man named James Gilbey (in which he calls her by the nickname Squidgy) were published. British tabloids redact the most explicit (and embarrassing) elements of the private call. In January, a transcript of a suggestive, secretly-recorded 1989 phone conversation between Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles (known as Camillagate) is first published in an Australian magazine and a German tabloid.
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