As Charles courted-and quite quickly wed-Lady Diana Spencer, the former kindergarten teacher became suspicious of her man's close friend, even requesting Camilla not attend their 3,500-guest 1981 affair at St. It was perfectly okay.'Д«ut the arrangement didn't suit everyone. 'The English aristocracy like to serve their royal family,' he told Dateline, 'and Andrew Parker Bowles was prepared to lay down his wife for his country. Wilson even claims the union had the blessing of Camilla's spouse. The duo remained close as Camilla welcomed son Tom (the prince even being named as a godfather) and then daughter Laura, and eventually in the late 1970s, according to reports, resumed their romance. In short, he was very taken with her, and after that first meeting he began ringing her up.' 'He also liked that she was so natural and easy and friendly, not in any way overawed by him, not fawning or sycophantic. 'He loved the fact that she smiled with her eyes as well as her mouth, and laughed at the same silly things as he did,' Junor revealed in her book, The Duchess: The Untold Story. While biographer Penny Junor insists it was actually Santa Cruz coming through with the brazenness, introducingВ the pair by saying, 'Now you two be very careful, you've got genetic antecedents-careful, careful!', either way the move worked. Referencing Alice Keppel's affair with King Edward VII, 'She says to him: 'Oh you know your great grandfather and my great grandmother were lovers,'' childhood pal Broderick Munro Wilson recalled in a 2005 Dateline NBC report. Introduced by mutual friend Lucia Santa Cruz at a 1970 polo match, a 23-year-old Camilla ShandВ was said to have walked up to the royal and hit him with a bold opening line. As pals tell it the future duchess dazzled from their firstВ meeting.

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