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Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall: The Journey to Becoming Queen Consort

  • Daniela Ralph
  • British Royal Family Correspondent

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At the coronation of Britain’s King Charles III this weekend, the Archbishop of Canterbury will anoint Camilla with special oil for the occasion and then crown her as queen. It’s a moment you never imagined going through.

In the early 1990s, when her relationship with the King first made headlines, she was dubbed “the most hated woman in Britain” and it’s hard to believe she would now really be crowned.

For a while, she was one of the most hated figures in the British media, blamed for the breakdown of Charles’ marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales.

But in subsequent years, public hostility to her eased, and she was slowly and carefully accepted as one of the eldest members of the royal family.

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