Queen Camilla

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Camilla is descended from Dutch emigrant Arnold Joost van Keppel, who was created Earl of Albemarle by King William III in 1696. [295] Through Anne van Keppel, Countess of Albemarle and a granddaughter of King Charles II, Camilla's bloodline is descended from the Houses of Stuart and Bourbon. [294] [296]

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Duchess boosts Bone Walk campaign". The Yorkshire Post. 26 February 2009. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013 . Retrieved 14 September 2013. Her husband, Prince Philip, conversely struggles with the situation, refusing to eat, share a bed with his wife, and wishing that he were anywhere but in Hellebore Close. Prince Charles and Camilla make history in Cuba". BBC News. 25 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019 . Retrieved 10 May 2019. Royal Marriage". Parliament of the United Kingdom. 17 March 2005. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015 . Retrieved 19 March 2015. Dear, Paula (5 April 2005). "Fans 'panic buy' 8 April mementos". BBC News. Archived from the original on 25 August 2007 . Retrieved 27 June 2010. ; "Prince Charles Postpones Wedding to Attend Funeral". The New York Times. 4 April 2005. Archived from the original on 6 February 2022 . Retrieved 16 June 2013.

Following both of their divorces, Prince Charles declared his relationship with Parker Bowles was "non-negotiable". [79] Charles was aware that the relationship was receiving a lot of negative publicity, and appointed Mark Bolland—whom he had employed in 1995 to refurbish his own image‍—‌to enhance Parker Bowles's public profile. [80] Parker Bowles occasionally became Charles's unofficial companion at events. In 1999, they made their first public appearance together at the Ritz London Hotel, where they attended a birthday party for Camilla's sister Annabel Elliot; about 200 photographers and reporters from around the world were there to witness them together. [81] In 2000, she accompanied Charles to Scotland for a number of official engagements, and in 2001, she became president of the Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS), which introduced her to the public. [82] Royal Christenings (aka Christening Information of the Royal Family since King George I)". Archived from the original on 6 August 2011 . Retrieved 28 March 2015. Who we are: President and Patrons: Annabel Elliot". baaf.org. Archived from the original on 17 April 2011 . Retrieved 26 September 2014. Smith, David (12 February 2005). "The rise and rise of Queen Camilla". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013 . Retrieved 1 March 2012. Collier, Kate (18 February 2005). "Leicester's leading ladies". BBC. Archived from the original on 3 February 2006 . Retrieved 1 February 2008.

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In 2009, she was given the freedom of Leicester. She was an honorary fellow at its university, a doctor of letters at Loughborough University and a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. In pictures: King Charles and Queen Camilla on state visit to France". BBC News. 22 September 2023 . Retrieved 24 September 2023. When she was five, Shand was sent to Dumbrells, a co-educational school in Ditchling village. [11] From the age of 10, she attended Queen's Gate School near her London home. Her classmates at Queen's Gate knew her as "Milla"; her fellow pupils included the singer Twinkle (Lynn Ripley), who described her as a girl of "inner strength" exuding "magnetism and confidence". [13] One of the teachers at the school, the writer Penelope Fitzgerald, who taught French, remembered Shand as "bright and lively". Shand left Queen's Gate with one O-level in 1964; her parents did not make her stay long enough for A-levels. [14] Aged 16, she attended the Mon Fertile finishing school in Tolochenaz, Switzerland. [15] After completing her course there, she studied French and French literature at the University of London Institute in Paris for six months. [16] [17] [18] Sue Townsend dead: Adrian Mole 'Secret Diary' author dies at her home, aged 68". Independent.co.uk. 11 April 2014 . Retrieved 12 April 2014. Are the reports that The Duchess is still a smoker true?". The Prince of Wales. Archived from the original on 21 August 2022 . Retrieved 21 August 2022.The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will visit The Gambia, Ghana and Nigeria". Archived from the original on 5 December 2018 . Retrieved 4 December 2018. By the time she was 18, she had married a sheet-metal worker and, by 22, had three children under five: Sean, Daniel and Victoria. She lived on the Saffron Lane estate, not far from the house in which the playwright Joe Orton – another of Leicester’s claims to literary fame – had grown up. When, after seven years, her marriage ended, she worked in assorted part-time jobs: at a petrol station, as a receptionist and for Birds Eye foods. The toughness of that time was something she never underplayed. She remembered making pea soup for her children out of one Oxo cube and a tin of garden peas. Although her books later made her fortune, she said that no amount of balsamic vinegar or Prada handbags would make her forget what it was like to be poor. Camilla postpones West Midlands events over Covid". BBC News. 13 February 2023. Archived from the original on 13 February 2023 . Retrieved 14 February 2023. Duchess speaks on osteoporosis during the royal couple's visit to NIH's Clinical Center". clinicalcenter.nih.gov. 5 December 2005. Archived from the original on 4 April 2015 . Retrieved 23 July 2015.