'Future Queen' Camilla Was Once the 'Third Person' in Charles & Princess Diana's Marriage
News 18Ending years of ‘royal confusion’ over what Prince Charles’ wife Camilla’s title would be once he takes the throne, Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday said she wanted Camilla to ultimately be known as Queen Consort. In a major statement on the eve of the 70th anniversary of her accession to the throne, the Queen reflected on the somewhat ‘changed’ opinion of Camilla years after her very public controversy over an extramarital affairs with Prince Charles and its affect on his then-wife the late Princess Diana. According to Charles’ authorised biography, the Prince began an affair with the married Camilla Parker Bowles in 1986, five years after his marriage to Princess Diana. Then, in 1973, Camilla married Andrew Parker Bowles, an Army cavalry officer seven years her senior who previously dated Prince Charles’s sister, Princess Anne, in July.