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The rise of Camilla: From being Diana’s worst enemy to Queen Consort

Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, becomes King Charles’s Queen Consort, in a remarkable journey to public acceptance after she became a hate figure for her perceived role in the break-up of his marriage to princess Diana. For years, Camilla was vilified as the marriage-wrecker who shattered Britain’s fairy-tale royal love story. Diana famously complained in a bombshell BBC television interview in 1995 that “there were three of us in this marriage” — her, Charles and Camilla, his long-time lover. She even reportedly called her love rival a “rottweiler”. After Diana died in a Paris car crash in 1997, Charles and Camilla gradually began to appear together in public and in time became accepted as a couple. They married in 2005 and she, over time, won plaudits as the future king’s loyal wife. The couple were seen side-by-side as they looked at flowers left by mourners for Charles’ father Prince Philip. The popular Netflix series “The Crown”, charting the lives of Britain’s most famous fa...