ANDREW MORTON: As for the Queen, she believed Charles simply hadn't spent enough time working on his relationship with Diana before going back to Camilla's soothing ministrations.
A deep chill settled over the Queen's relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles in the late 1970s that seemed unlikely ever to lift.was making efforts to find a suitable wife, though at least two candidates – Lord Mountbatten's granddaughter Amanda Knatchbull and the Duke of Wellington's daughter Jane Wellesley – turned him down when he proposed.
Such a confrontation would, according to courtiers, have been totally out of character. Much rather an hour with her red boxes, which acted as the Monarch's security blanket, than address such an intimate family issue.Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer on their engagement day at Buckingham Palace In any case, she appeared to have been little more than a temporary sideshow once Charles settled on 19-year-old Diana Spencer as his bride.
Later, she reflected that the Monarch must have been unusually moved because Wallis had spent her final years as a bed-bound recluse. This did not please the Queen, who wanted Camilla gone – an uncompromising view shared by her senior officials, notably her private secretary Sir Robert Fellowes .As for the Queen, she believed he simply hadn't spent enough time working on his relationship with Diana before going back to Camilla's soothing ministrations.
Charles, for his part, made it abundantly clear to his mother that Camilla wasn't going anywhere, and his obdurate attitude inevitably placed St James's Palace and Buckingham Palace on a collision course. An estimated 850 guests, including Prime Minister Tony Blair and former premier Margaret Thatcher, toasted his life and achievements in the presence of the Queen and Prince Philip.
A week after the funeral, still waiting to hear whether his Royal allowance was safe, he wrote to his wife Wallis: 'It's hell to be even this much dependent on these ice-veined bitches.'In one of her first acts as Monarch, his niece cut his allowance completely.
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