2023-04-23 21:58:55
Children, grandchildren, sister, friend and even Camilla’s ex-husband will be with her on May 6th at her coronation as queen consort of England and while she tries to leave behind her sordid past as the lover of Carlos III and the cause of his and Lady Di’s divorce.
But the past haunts Camilla Parker Bowles, especially after Prince Harry defined her as a “dangerous” and “evil” woman in his memoirs.
Attentive to the personal wish of the late Queen Elizabeth II, Camilla agreed to be consecrated as queen consort and not hide behind the title of princess consort, which she wanted to use.
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And as such, this 75-year-old bourgeois woman will be crowned on May 6 at Westminster Abbeyminutes after her husband Carlos III is finally crowned, at 74, as King of Great Britain.
Privileged witnesses will be her sister, her ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles, her son Tom Parker Bowles and her daughter, Laura Lopes. In addition, the new queen’s grandsons (twins Gus and Louis, Laura’s son, and Freddy, Tom’s son) and her nephew Arthur Elliot will assist her by wearing her robes during her coronation.
They will all be there “to support” the mother, grandmother, sister, friend and ex-wife, Tom said.
Her sister Annabel and a friend will be her “bridesmaids”.
Carlos and Camilla imagined a modern coronationin keeping with the times and little ostentatious.
For this reason, the queen eliminated the centuries-old tradition of having “Bridesmaids“, chosen among the best families of the British nobility (usually duchesses and countesses) to be helped by their sister and a friend.
Annabel Elliot, Camilla’s sister, 74, and her friend Lady Fiona, Marchioness of Lansdowne, 68will be by Camilla’s side during the ceremony, which lasts more than an hour, to assist her as “queen’s companions” or “Queen’s companions“.
Lady Lansdowne is a longtime friend of Camilla’s and supported her during the 1990s when details of her clandestine relationship with Prince Charles were scandalously published.
Earlier this month, Lady Lansdowne spoke out against Prince Harry after he dissed her stepmother in her bombshell biography. Spare. The marchioness said that Camilla was “hurt.”
In SparePrince Harry wrote that he and his brother William had “begged” their father not to marry Camilla because they feared she would become their “evil stepmother.”
He also details how he felt when he first met Camilla, likening it to getting a “shot”: “I remember wondering… if she would be cruel to me; if she would be like all the evil stepmothers in the stories”writes.
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Harry accused Camilla of “leaking stories” about the royal family to the British media as part of her campaign to “rehabilitate her image”. He then described her as “dangerous” and “evil.” that she left “dead on the street” to change the perception that the public had of her.
“Of course it bothers her, of course it hurts. But she doesn’t let it get to her. Her philosophy is always: ‘Don’t do anything like that and it will calm down, the less said, the sooner it’s fixed,'” he told the newspaper. The Sunday Times.
Another who came to Camilla’s defense after the publication of Harry’s book was the queen’s son, Tom.
“I don’t care what other people say, this was not some kind of end game. She married the person she loved and this is what happened,” she recalled in a podcast in which she said her mother had “sacrificed” herself. to improve your reputation.
The man said her mother is “excited” about the upcoming ceremony, but “not complaining”. “I think anyone would be looking forward to an occasion of this kind of historical significance.”
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“I think he would be terrified if he had to walk around wearing ancient robes… She’s 75 years old, but you know, it’s hard to do it. But she never complains. Just do it’. ‘Let’s do it'”.
Tom, who is a writer, also said that it is not strange for him to think of his mother as the queen: “she is still my mother“.
She added of her mother and stepfather: “I think they’re doing amazingly. I think King Charles is a good, kind and intelligent man. who cares deeply about their roles wherever they are, the Prince of Wales, the King.”
What will the coronation of Queen Camilla be like?
The Queen Camilla will star in her own coronationalthough with a slightly simpler and shorter ceremony than that of her husband.
Camilla opted to wear Queen Mary’s crown, made in 1911 for the consort of King George V, making her the first queen consort to wear an existing crown rather than have one built exclusively for her.
The decision was made “in the interest of sustainability and efficiency,” the palace said, although “minor” changes were made to “reflect Camilla’s individual style” and “pay homage” to the late Queen Elizabeth II.
Although ‘smaller’ than the king’s crowns, Camilla’s has a spectacular 2,200 diamonds, plus two stones from the large Cullinan diamond: “Cullinan III”, a 94.4-carat pear-shaped drop, and “Cullinan IV”, a square cut stone of 63.6 carats.
The controversial Koh-i-Noor diamondseized by the British East India Company in 1849 and claimed by India and Pakistan, no longer figures in the Queen Consort’s crown, as it did until 1937.
Seated on a throne next to her husband, facing the altar of the temple, the queen will also receive two sceptersboth made for James II’s consort, the Italian Catholic Mary of Modena, in 1685.
One of the scepters has a cross as a symbol of temporal power, and the other is made of three pieces of elephant ivory joined by two gold necklaces. There was speculation that the item might not be used because it contains ivory, which Prince William campaigned to ban.
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