“The Impact of Camilla Parker on the British Monarchy”

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En May 6, 2023, the eyes of the world will focus on London. Eight months after the death of Isabel II your son Charles III will be crowned A “symbolic and marketing” ceremony, as he explains shell calleja. The writer and journalist visits ‘PD’s VIP room‘ to talk about the figure of the British monarch and the influence of the two most important women in his life: Diana of Wales y Camilla Parker.

Camilla Parker met Carlos at the beginning of the 70s and they began a love story that continues to this day. After the scandal in 1992 when hers made public her infidelity that ended Carlos’s marriage to Diana, few expected Parker Bowles to end up sitting on the throne of the United Kingdom as her consort. «A great gift that Elizabeth II gave her, that she opens the way to happiness for her son. Camilla was going to be queen regardless of that decision by Elizabeth II. That’s what the protocol says. The consorts are queens and the consorts are not. It was what happened to Philip of Edinburgh that he only got the treatment of Príncipe”, explains Calleja.

The story approached the figure of Camilla Parker in his book Camilla’s Triumph (Esfera de los Libros, 2005) that he published coinciding with her marriage to Carlos. On the other hand, in 2017 she published a book Diana. requiem for a lie (Almuzara) which was an investigation into the death of the ex-wife of today’s British king.

“Carlos has always wanted Camilla to be his consort, his queen, but if Isabel II had not intervened, possibly people would not have swallowed,” says Calleja. «There has been an image campaign. She has been seen close to him and, in addition, Carlos is a complicated man with many psychological problems and Camilla has known how to get along with him very well, “she explains about the future queen consort. A woman who has marked the life of the current British monarch at the same level as the remembered Diana of Wales.