On September 8, Queen Elizabeth II passed away at the age of 96 after 70 years of reign. In the afternoon, his doctors had first indicated to be “concerned” by his state of health. “Following a further assessment this morning, the Queen’s doctors are concerned for Her Majesty’s health and have recommended that she remains under medical supervision. The Queen continues to feel comfortable and remains at Balmoral.”, announced the palace in a first press release. A few hours later, Buckingham revealed in a second press release that Elizabeth II had died “peacefully” in the afternoon at Balmoral Castle, the Queen’s private property in Scotland, surrounded by her family. So Charles III, his son, will succeed him alongside his wife Camilla Parker Bowles. They also made their first public outing the day after the death of the queen, a walkabout in front of Buckingham Palace during which they even broke the protocol. While the next day, September 10, the King of England narrowly escaped a tragedy.
Barely crowned, Charles III and Camilla now make the headlines and their love story built on infidelity resurfaced. Married in 2005, the future king and reindeer knew each other well before. They would have met in 1971, when Camilla was not part of the great nobility, she was still from a bourgeois family and managed to make her way in the same circles as Charles. They then had a relationship, before Charles joined the Royal Navy and Camilla married Andrew Parker Bowles. A few years later, she even pushed Charles to marry Diana in 1981. But while they are both respectively married, they resume their relationship on the sly. Well, not so secretly since at the time the press revealed some of their telephone conversations… In 1996, Charles divorced Diana and appeared publicly with Camilla before the princess’s death in August 1997 returned her to the closet, in the background. To make her loved by the British, each of their appearances are thought out and Camilla’s philanthropic vision helps a lot. As for those close to Charles, including his children Prince Harry and Prince William, it took them time, including that of the immense mourning of their mother, to accept it.
Laura Bertrand
See also: