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it's 1994 a year of new beginnings

around the world this historic footage

shows America and Russia signed an

agreement which ends the imminent threat

of nuclear warfare

Bill Clinton believes that he and Boris

Yeltsin have today made a real

contribution to future peace South

Africa holds its first ever free

elections 27 years in prison

a lifetime of oppression today the vote

that makes the sacrifice worthwhile and

in Britain the IRA declares a ceasefire

after 25 years of bloody conflict but

for the heir to the British throne 1994

was a year to remember for all the wrong

reasons

Prince Charles was shot at in Australia

by a man with a starting pistol loaded

with blanks and things went from bad to

worse when he became the first British

royal to publicly confess to adultery

did you try to be faithful and honorable

to your wife

yes until it became irretrievably broken

done Charles his royal mistress Camilla

parker-bowles

became one of the most notorious women

in Britain poll ratings were dismal key

she was labeled a marriage breaker a

temptress and worse

[Music]

in the spring of 2005 the Prince of

Wales finally married the woman he had

secretly loved for more than 30 years

the prints leading Camilla parker-bowles

out from the shadows on his arm his

former lover and mistress now his wife

and the new Duchess of Cornwall

[Music]

the new Duchess of Cornwall wedding was

no fairy tale it was a low-key affair

held in a public register office without

her new mother in or the Queen in

attendance there were no royal fanfares

though monarchists from all over they'd

come to witness it we are in Windsor for

the wedding and very excited about it I

think it's being wonderful I'm so glad

so many people have turned up to see

them Camilla look beautiful public

support for Camilla and the marriage had

been a long time in the making

it was exactly 19 years to the day since

the heir to the throne had sensationally

made himself and his mistress front-page

news by deciding to give a television

interview to publicize a royal biography

by journalist Jonathan Dimbleby I had

freedom to ask the questions I want to

ask editorial control over the material

I was doing an interview that anyone

would give their eyeteeth to ask I have

a life spent doing journalism and that

that's what I was doing then during the

interview Tim will be pressed Charles

about the true state of the royal

marriage and Princess Diana did you try

to be faithful and honorable to your

wife when you took on the vow of

marriage is absolutely

and you were yes until it became

irretrievably broken down the surprising

admission the first time any royal had

ever publicly confessed to infidelity

cause the woman he had been adulterous

with into a harsh spotlight poll ratings

were abysmal she was labeled a marriage

breaker a temptress and worse when the

book finally hit the shelves it

contained even more graphic details of

the affair the royal mistress did not

respond herself but friends and family

did Simon and Carolyn parker-bowles

accused the Prince of Wales of blaming

everyone but himself for his marriage

breakdown they say his revelations in

the Jonathan Dimbleby book have dropped

Camilla parker-bowles

in a heap Caroline is quoted as saying

it's all why to talk to Camilla but to

tell the world is an entirely different

matter

Simon Parker ball says I'd be more

inclined to say poor old Camilla Prince

Charles does not have our sympathy at

the moment as Charles's popularity

declined a public debate started about

his fitness to be king if he goes for

marriage with mrs. Parker Bowles as a

potential future Queen consort he's

gonna throw the monarchy into very

serious doubt not everyone was against

him there are absolutely no

constitutional doctor implications for

being an adult for after all we've had

Kings who were divorced we had Kings who

were separated we've had kings who had

boyfriends and kings who had girlfriends

and Kings who simply you know didn't

divorce their wives would imprison them

and beheaded them as well and they've

all been king

these Kings have long enjoyed the

attention of their mistresses usually in

secret in 955 the great-grandson of

Alfred the Great ed wig the fair came to

the throne at the age of just 15 a man

who preferred the thrill of the bedroom

to the challenges of the throne he was

caught on the day of his coronation with

his mistress and her mother by the

Archbishop of Canterbury future Kings

followed suit with numerous royal

mistresses harold ii henry ii and of

course the infamous Henry VIII Queen

Victoria didn't have a mistress but it

was said that she had a long-running

affair with one of her servants John

Brown 150 years later the allegation was

turned into an oscar-nominated film

starring Judi Dench and Billy Connolly

called Her Majesty mrs. Brown Billy here

will tell you that there was a sexual

relationship between him and I will tell

you that I don't think it was of course

the notes of course they're dead

communicate they didn't the Judas

English oh no you see hasn't so much of

a fool yeah see time comes what did I

tell you a nightmare a few hours ago i

discharged my last duty as king and

Emperor a royal mistress cost ed the

eighth his throne he abdicated to be

with a married woman he loved the

American socialite Wallis Simpson who

would never have been accepted as queen

by the British people the affair had

begun two years before he became King

while he was Prince of Wales and the

nation's most eligible bachelor

when Charles became Prince of Wales

women flocked to him to hoping they

might become Princess of Wales or even

his Queen advice about how to cope with

the women who were throwing themselves

at him came not from his father Prince

Philip but from uncle Dickie the earl

mountbatten the queen's second cousin

and former viceroy of india when Charles

was 26 Mountbatten wrote him about sex

and life I believe in a case like yours

that a man should sow his Wild Oats and

have as many affairs as he can before

settling down then Along Came Lady Diana

for whom the Prince of Wales would drop

all others bar one

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Prince Charles first met Camilla

parker-bowles

at a polo match near Windsor Castle in

June 1971 this is probably the first

picture of them together it's certainly

one of the earliest and one of very few

royal photographers at the time did not

think she was anything other than a

friend and certainly not one who would

become a lover when they met again

Camilla apparently captivated Charles by

talking about royal mistresses her great

grandmother Alice kettle had had an

affair with Charles's great great

grandfather Edward the seventh

seventy-three years earlier Edward was a

serial womanizer with eleven mistresses

Alice his favorite was described as

having the sexual morals of an alley cat

Camilla was born Camilla SH and on the

17th of July 1947 into an aristocratic

family her father made you Bruce Chand

was a successful wine merchant when she

was 16 Camilla was sent to a Swiss

finishing school to learn social graces

today she's widely filmed and

photographed but back then

commander managed to avoid most

photographers so there are hardly any

childhood pictures a trend which

continued when she started seeing Prince

Charles they were rarely photographed

together this was taken during a visit

to a West End theatre they also shared a

love of horse riding Charles as a polo

player and Camilla as a fox hunter they

coined nicknames for each other

Camilla became Gladys and Charles Fred

the names came from a legendary radio

comedy show the goons Charles had long

been an admirer of Spike Milligan Peter

Sellers Harry cecum and Michael Benton

Benton was perhaps best known for his

role in the goons the show changed the

face of British comedy and won the

Prince of Wales as both a fan and friend

for Benteen the prince was at the comics

bedside the day before he died Fred and

Gladys captured the spirit of the royal

affair the Charles his relationship with

his heroes was not always reciprocated

here we go I have another tweet out here

a forum His Royal Highness the Prince of

whites

that's confess that I've been a lifelong

fan of the participants in the show and

particularly as Spike Milligan the

little groveling after the show Spike

Milligan sent a fax to the print saying

suppose a knighthood is now out of the

question for the man famous for his

anarchic sense of humor an appointment

at the palace today to meet his biggest

fan and receive his knighthood was it

Honoka mestizos and that

Kamilah and Charles's affair came to a

halt when duty called this future head

of the family firm Charles was expected

to forge a career in the Armed Forces he

enrolled in the Navy and sailed off into

the sunset to spend six months in the

Caribbean

Camilla found herself a new lover a

close friend of the royal family major

Andrew Parker Bowles they married in

1973 Andrew was the son of a minor royal

Derek Parker Bowles and and a trafford

the daughter of a millionaire racehorse

owner his father was close to the Queen

Mother and she became his godmother

when Charles dated Diana the Parker

Bowles were never far away

Andrew was promoted and got one of the

best jobs in the army left hand Colonel

Andrew Parker Bowles commands the

mounted regiment of the household

cavalry he and his wife of close friends

of Prince Charles and Lady Diana and

they both spent the weekend with the

Pachelbel's is just before Prince

Charles proposed well you read what I do

every day bzzt Barras bravas leader of

the last round the marvelous man chose

Parker Bowles to be his head of security

when he finally married Diana his

personal bodyguard riding beside the

royal carriage after the ceremony

historically it's been officers

ceremonial side is the most important

side the same time there's the

protection side the security side

although at first the royal marriage

seemed a Dilek cracks soon began to show

as Charles began a second affair with

Camilla she was seething and dying

inside because she was jealous and angry

at his relationship with Camilla

parker-bowles

Charles made matters worse when he tried

to make a joke about needing two women

in his life at a state dinner in New

Zealand

I've come to the conclusion but really

it would have been far easier we've had

two wives and I could have walked down

the middle directing the operation diana

was not amused matters finally came to a

head in 1980 when the foursome attended

a small race meeting in northwest

England the photographer's had a field

day as Charles spent most of his time

with Camilla while his wife was escorted

by a bemused Park Boles even though they

were often pictured together behind the

scenes they were deadly enemies diana

nicknamed camilla the Rottweiler camilla

dubbed diana that ridiculous creature

the true extent of Charles's feelings

towards the Rottweiler had not been made

clear in the biography that outed

camilla as his royal mistress britain

had no idea how he Grady felt but in

1993 the people of Australia got to know

firsthand when they read about it all in

new idea magazine according to new idea

it's the full unedited text of a

telephone conversation that's both

intimate and explicit the magazine

devotes three of its pages to the

conversation which it says was recorded

by a radio enthusiast four years ago in

the UK the press afraid of incurring the

wrath of the royal family held back many

including the then editor of The Sunday

Times were appalled those in the know in

London and the chattering classes and

those with fax machines to Australia can

know what's in it but the rest of the

country doesn't Buckingham Palace

tonight declined to comment on the

contents of the magazine there's been no

comment from mrs. Parker Bowles in the

past her husband has dismissed such

allegations as rubbish the tapes became

known as Camilla gate and they revealed

a level of intimacy nobody a dentist

it was only a matter of time before the

tabloids printed what's been circulating

in private but days the full transcript

of an alleged conversation between the

Prince of Wales and Camilla

parker-bowles

it was right the nine million readers of

the Sunday Mirror should no longer be

Knight denied the right to to make their

own mind up about what was involved in

the tapes the recordings and their

publication was condemned by the UK

press watchdog is an odious exhibition

of journalists dabbling their fingers is

the stuff of other people's souls in

Havana which adds nothing to the

legitimate public interest in the

situation of the heir to the throne

editors from the tabloid newspapers were

hauled before Parliament and given a

hard time

I'm extremely hairy audio let me carry

on for a second let me bury or maybe you

will need two engine questions your

agency question I'll give you something

said the journalists were unrepentant

saying Camilla had brought it all upon

herself you know having an affair with

Prince Charles behind the husband's back

it's not not necessarily the best way of

leading a low-profile life

a year later Andrew Parker Bowles

announced he was divorcing Camilla the

crunch came last summer when Andrew

Parker Bowles we believe felt publicly

humiliated by the TV confession of

Prince Charles that he had three affairs

with Camilla parker-bowles spanning 21

years Charles and Camilla we're at last

free to openly pursue their relationship

the Prince now faces some difficult

choices should he seek a divorce should

he marry mrs. Parker Bowles the marriage

seems to be totally over and I think in

circumstances like that it's better that

a line is drawn under it the line was

only finally drawn when the unimaginable

happened this morning shocking news that

Diana the Princess of Wales has died

Diana's death cemented her legend as the

people's princess it also made the

public even more determined that Camilla

would not be their queen I don't think

she should be there not yeah it's bit

too early when it became clear that

Charles was not going to be able to

force Camilla on his future subjects or

his family he began a press campaign

like no other

he hired a top PR man to work on public

opinion even though Charles and Camilla

did not appear formally in public

together

photographers got tipped off when

Camilla was undertaking what became

known as unofficial royal duties and it

was a carefully orchestrated royal

exclusive in The Daily Mirror that

signaled Princes William and Harry had

at last accepted their late mother's

great rival the details are only just

emerging at the meeting here at son

James's Palace between William and his

father's longtime friend Camilla

parker-bowles

he's never insisted his sons meet

Camilla but he did tell the Queen today

attending a service at Westminster Abbey

that his friendship with her was

non-negotiable Charles and Camilla also

played a guessing game with the media

when would they be officially seen

together

for the first time Prince Charles is due

to arrive any time now to attend a 50th

birthday party being given for the

sister of his longtime love Camilla

parker-bowles it was a game the press

loved the media pack shoulder to

shoulder this evening had started

arriving outside the Ritz yesterday

morning everyone determined to get the

shot Charles and Camilla happily sighed

he's desperately wants this picture that

happened it was several times last year

when it was when I contemplated doing it

but the finally decided tonight's the

night and good luck to him

and to that to that she's very nervous

to I imagine the picture Charles wanted

only happened when the party was over

the Prince of Wales and Camilla

parker-bowles seen together in public

quite clearly coming down the steps of

the Ritz no secret about their

relationship now none possible at all

the picture the people have waited so

long to see the scene that says so much

about the Prince of Wales the love of

his life and of course his possible

future I think we've been watching a

very very skillful public relations

campaign they've worked it out last year

it was a private function a family

function this year it's an official

function something of the princes we're

going to see a year or serve this and

then it's going to move on a stage and

the question of course is is that going

to be a marriage next came a public kiss

it was the first time the couple had

shown such affection in public Camilla

is of course a fixture in Charles's

private life and we've got used to

seeing them together at events like

these but the truth is that her position

in his public life is still fraught with

difficulties the big question remains

where the Charles himself wants to take

it to the next stage British public is a

very forgiving public and I think

they're ready to see some new dramatic

turn in the Prince of Wales as fortunes

I think they would be behind him and I

think that the sooner they addressed the

marriages suitable better operation with

Charles and Camilla was almost done the

Prince of Wales has been making great

efforts recently to encourage public

acceptance of his relationship with mrs.

Parker Bowles but there was one final

heard word across a poll today suggested

2/3 of people now support remarriage

this poll has at a higher level which

may be a measure of the effect of the

Queen's perhaps grudging acceptance of

Camilla as Prince Charles concert when

it was leaked that Camilla had been

secretly meeting the head of the Church

of England the rumor mill went into

overdrive revelations that she has had

at least six meetings with dr. George

Carey the Archbishop of Canterbury

suggests

the question of marriage is now on the

agenda so the long-running question will

they or won't be has now finally been

answered with the announcement from

Clarence House here today the decision

has been taken that the timing is now

right for the marriage to take place

whatever the constitutional implications

or controversies Princes William and

Harry also said today in a statement

that they were both very happy for their

father and Camilla and wish them all the

luck in the future so what was once

unthinkable became a reality at a humble

registry office near Windsor Castle this

a royal love affair finally without

hindrance their long and difficult

journey to the altar was about to end

Prince William a witness and his brother

Harry led the close family members into

Windsor's Guild Hall for the short

private civil ceremony Camilla was now

part of the royal family with the title

the Duchess of Cornwall now only one

question remains when Prince Charles

eventually becomes King what title would

his wife some constitutional experts

believe he should follow Queen

Victoria's example she made her husband

Albert the Prince Consort Camilla could

therefore become the princess concert

it's very modern solution if the husband

of the Queen is not automatically king

she isn't Philip Duke of Edinburgh then

in the modern world why should the wife

of the king automatically become queen

but Prince Charles has not yet given up

on the idea that one day his former

royal mistress might be Queen that could

be said the Prince a departure from the

assumption that Camilla will be Princess

consort not Queen controversial given

the widespread public unease about a

queen Camilla

whatever the unnies one thing is certain

when the time comes

Camilla will be closest to the new king

and with that comes influence

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