The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles And The Love Affair That Rocked The Crown

  • Author: Penny Junor
  • Narrator: Jenny Funnell
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 12:39:31
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Synopsis

In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall—the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana ""a bit crowded""—esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled as a pariah who, thanks to numerous twists of fate, became the popular princess consort.

Few know the Windsor family as well as veteran royal biographer and journalist Penny Junor. In The Duchess, she casts her insightful, sensitive eye on the intriguing, once widely despised, and little-known Camilla Parker Bowles, revealing in full, for the first time, the remarkable rise of a woman who was the most notorious mistress in the world.

As Camilla’s marriage to Charles approached in 2005, the British public were upset at the prospect that this woman, universally reviled for wrecking the royal marriage, would one day become queen. Sensitive to public opinion, the palace announced that this would never happen; when Charles eventually acceded to the throne, Camilla would be known as the princess consort. Yet a decade later British public sentiment had changed, with a majority believing that Camilla should become queen.

Junor argues that although Camilla played a central role in the darkest days of the modern monarchy—Charles and Diana’s acrimonious and scandalous split—she also played a central role in restoring the royal family’s reputation, especially that of Prince Charles. A woman with no ambition to be a princess, a duchess, or a queen, Camilla simply wanted to be with, and support, the man who has always been the love of her life. Junor contends that their marriage has reinvigorated Charles, allowing him to finally become comfortable as the heir to the British throne.

Chapters

  • 041 The Duchess Chapter 39

    Duration: 06min
  • 042 The Duchess Chapter 40

    Duration: 20min
  • 043 The Duchess Chapter 41

    Duration: 10min
  • 044 The Duchess Chapter 42

    Duration: 12min
  • 045 The Duchess Chapter 43

    Duration: 16min
  • 046 The Duchess Chapter 44

    Duration: 23min
  • 047 The Duchess outro

    Duration: 37s
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