Charles and Camilla

[silversolitaire]

I've read this series on Charles and Camilla for the past couple of days. Apparently some biography has been wriiten on Camilla and for some reason I'm enjoying it greatly, reading all those sordid little bits. Hah... It makes Camilla sound like an awesome woman, I'm surprised to admit. They go on about how she met her first husband, Andrew Parker-Bowles, when she was 17 or so and he taught her everything about love, sex and eroticism. That he gave her the lesson that nothing about sex is shameful and that it changed her a lot. Apparently, Andrew was quite the ladies' man and she'd often find him with some cheap affair in his bed, and she never cried or was upset but sorta gave the girls a look-over and sneered how he could do better than that.

Then she met Charles when she was 25 and he was... dunno, younger I suppose, and she immediately sweeped him off his feet with her straight-forewardness and sensuality. She in turn taught him everything about love and sex. He was madly in love with her, but it was clear from the start that he'd never be allowed to marry her. Supposedly his father told him "Wed her, don't bed her". He knew he was supposed to marry a virgin and the choice was Diana. Supposedly, when Diana moved into the Palace for get married, nobody received her, but there was a letter on the bed addressed at her from Camilla, dated three days before she'd even know she was going to move into the Palace. Weird situation.

When Camilla got married to Andrew, Charles spent days and weeks mourning his lost love. Apparently Camilla's husband never had a problem with his wife sleeping around with the heir to the throne. As a matter of fact, he enjoyed the social upgrade he experienced through that. After Charles had gotten married, they had taken the resolve to no longer consume their relationship physically since Charles had wanted to make his marriage work. Well, we all know where that led to, eh?

Anyway, reading this kinda has changed my mind a bit about the nature of the relationship between Charles and Camilla. I mean, it's no news of course. Ever since their marriage last year we kinda know all the details, and yet... I wil admit that I had always felt a slight twinge of animosity at the idea of them now getting a happy end after having been so mean and unfair to Diana, adulterers and what not. Silly me, of course the press had always been skewed towards Diana who was the beautiful, tragic fairytale princess.

Nobody, or I at least, had never taken the time to actually look at Charles and Camilla and reading all this kinda makes me realize that if at all it was probably Diana who was disrupting a great love, not Camilla. Camilla had always been the love of Charles' life and they just couldn't be together until last year. That's pretty awesome to think that they managed to maintain such a love and passion for each other through all these years, against all odds. Yeah, I think that' s pretty damn awesome. *nods*

Comments

[vampiresetsuna.livejournal.com]

That is interesting! Sories of kings and queens are always facinating, especially real ones. Though, back then, I think things were written to make the public love Charles and Diana together, and now things are being written to make the public love Charles and Camilla together... Would be very interesting to sort out what is true, and what is royal-family propaganda...

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Well considering that Charles / Camilla is actually rather "dirty" and doesn't really make the Royal family look that good, I'm willing to bet that this is the true story. I mean, so many things have been written about them by now, so many revelations about Diana and their marriage, it's kinda an established fact that nobody of the parties involved denied that Charles and Camilla had an ongoing love affair and that she's always been his true love. But of course, we'll never know whether she really is that wild sex kitten or not! hehehe...

[lemurjoe.livejournal.com]

The tragic thing about all of it , for me, is not that they were in love and kept apart, but they knowingly kept it from Diana. She was 18/19? when Charles asked her to marry him? And he was in his thirties? I still think it would have been common decency to tell Diana that he still had feelings for Camilla. I can't help but feel that the two them of conspired to trick someone into producing the heir he required, and for that I can never forgive them.

[commie-mania.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just looked at the time on my last post(it's there on the bottom right corner) and I realized that it actually took you only two and a half hours. It's pretty much record time. It's just that I was really bored studying and it felt more like 5 to me. I understand you guys need to sleep too.

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Yeah I'm not going to claim that every posts gets approved the second it hits the mod screen, but usually when I'm online and paying attention I approve it as quickly as possible. But like I said, the approval routine is annoying. You click "view" then "approve" and then it goes to yet another screen "are you really really REALLY sure you want to approve this???". I sometimes just get lost along the way.

Anyway, just have a bit of patience and we'll find a way that works smoothly with the least annoyance involved for everyone. ^_^

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Hah, kinda forgot to reply. Yes, you're totally right. That's definitely where they were at fault. They should have filled her in from the start and given her a chance to decide if that's what she wants. Instead, they made her go into this marriage with this illusion of a fairytale romance that ended up turning into a nightmare. That's probably the very reason why I can't just be happy for them.

[boomstick.livejournal.com]

UM. I don't think I have posting access at wtf_inc :(

[boomstick.livejournal.com]

OH NEVERMIND

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

O.o; *checks anyhow*

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Haha, I see. Yeah that's the moderation. I approved your post! Please be so kind and add a descriptive subject line though. It facilitates finding shit in the archives. I'm always going around poking people to do it and it's always good to set a good example! ^.~

Welcome back! :D Like I said, when someone grieves you, let me know ASAP. Shoiryu backs me up on this ^^.

[boomstick.livejournal.com]

Oh snaps I forgot, no problemo :D

Thanks guys, you da best ♥