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Charles to marry lover Camilla
« on: Feb 10^th, 2005, 5:41am »

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Thursday, February 10, 2005 Posted: 6:22 AM EST (1122 GMT)

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Britain's Prince Charles is to marry his long-term lover, Camilla Parker Bowles, Buckingham Palace said.

A statement on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II said: "The Duke of Edinburgh and I are very happy that The Prince of Wales and Mrs. Parker Bowles are to marry. We have given them our warmest good wishes for their future together."

Charles said he and his wife-to-be were "absolutely delighted" at their engagement.

The wedding will be a civil ceremony in Windsor Castle on April 8 followed by a service of prayer and dedication in St George's Chapel at which the Archbishop of Canterbury will preside.

Parker Bowles will be given the title of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cornwall.

When Charles becomes King, Camilla will not be known as Queen Camilla but as the Princess Consort, Charles' office, Clarence House said.

The announcement, four days before St. Valentine's Day, came as a surprise.

Prince Charles' love life had been the cause of much speculation in Britain since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a Paris car crash in 1997.

Parker Bowles, 58, has been the significant love of Charles' life in recent years but has always faced an uphill struggle to rival his former wife in the public affection.

Since then, and after several years of carefully choreographed appearances together, Parker Bowles has now been widely accepted as Charles' long-term partner.

She openly shares official rooms with the prince, 56, at his Clarence House residence in London.

Diana was divorced from Charles -- heir to Queen Elizabeth II -- when she died. Charles's marriage is a sensitive issue because Parker Bowles divorced in 1995 and her former husband Andrew, a former army officer, is still alive.

Charles would be the supreme governor of the Church of England if he took the throne, and some Anglicans remain opposed to the remarriage of divorcees.

The church is officially neutral on the issue, but former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey recently urged the couple to marry.

Parker Bowles will be stepmother to Charles and Diana's two sons -- Prince William and Prince Harry, second and third in line to the British throne.

Diana blamed the friendship between Charles and Parker Bowles for the failure of her marriage. "There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded," Diana said in a 1995 TV interview.

In 1994, Prince Charles admitted in a TV documentary that he had strayed from his marriage vows, but insisted the infidelity happened only after the marriage was "irretrievably broken down, us both having tried." It was widely assumed, but never confirmed, that Parker Bowles -- who has two children, Tom 30, and Laura, 24 -- was the other woman.

Hurdle
CNN's Richard Quest said that the death of the Queen Mother, Charles' grandmother, had apparently removed the major hurdle to his marriage to Parker Bowles.

Friends of the prince welcomed news of his impending marriage. Conservative MP Nicholas Soames said he was "absolutely delighted."

"I'm very, very happy for both the Prince of Wales and Mrs. Parker Bowles. I think it's wonderful," he told the UK's Press Association.

A spokeswoman for Princess Diana's brother Earl Spencer told PA he would be making no comment on the announcement.

Diana's biographer, Lady Colin Campbell, said that Camilla is a marked contrast to Diana, preferring simple country pursuits to a life of Hollywood-style glamour.

She said she expects a much simpler wedding to the major spectacle of Charles's wedding to Diana in London's St. Paul's Cathedral in July 1981.

Campbell said that Charles's office Clarence House had mounted a long-running campaign to make marriage between the couple acceptable to the British people.

An opinion poll in June last year showed Britons would narrowly approve of a marriage between Charles and his partner.

A second marriage for the Prince of Wales would have the support of 32 percent of the British public, with 29 percent opposed, according to the Populus poll conducted for The Times newspaper.

However, it was revealed that most Britons -- 38 percent -- did not care whether Charles and Parker Bowles married.

'Journey'
Three years ago Prince Charles answered a question about whether he planned to marry Parker Bowles by saying, "You can't be certain about anything."

On an interview given to the UK tabloid Daily Mail to mark the 25th anniversary of The Prince's Trust, Prince Charles was asked whether he planned to remarry. He said: "Will I be alive tomorrow? Who knows what the Good Lord has planned. You can't be certain about anything. I don't know.

"I just think it's important, particularly as I get older, to think about the journey that's coming next."

The announcement comes before the completion of the inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Former head of the Metropolitan Police Sir John Stevens is still investigating the car crash in which she died in August 1997. The inquest will follow this.

Charles's biographer Penny Junor told Reuters: "This will divide opinion and some people will think it is the end of the world. But once it has happened, people will accept it.

"He's very much in love with her and she with him. That's just the way it is."

'Nightmare years'
Winston Churchill, the grandson of the wartime British prime minister and a friend of the prince, said the couple were entitled to their own happiness.

He told Sky TV: "They are clearly very much in love. It must be the end of a series of nightmare years for Camilla, every day reading in the papers about being the mistress this and that

"They are entitled to have their own happiness the same as everyone else."

He added: "I'm sure the princes only want their father to be happy."

The announcement would not have been made without the queen's approval, according to Sarah Bradford, a biographer of the monarch.

She told PA: "I think she is a very pragmatic person and much as she does not like divorce, she may have recognized that it was inevitable."

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Re: Charles to marry lover Camilla
« Reply #1 on: Feb 10^th, 2005, 10:39am »

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LL, they don't deserve this much space. Roll Eyes

It's time they married, they've lived together for years. He should have married her in the first place.
Arranged marriages, pffft...................and caused one beautiful young woman who had so much to give to be killed,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,so sad Cry

I wish them well, they deserve some happiness out of this way of life.
Monarchy, my arse! Roll Eyes

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« Reply #2 on: Feb 10^th, 2005, 10:58am »

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Good for them. They clearly love each other, and they should be allowed to get married. It's a shame what happened between him and Diana, but you know some marriages fail, that doesn't mean either isn't entitled to love again or to fall in love with someone else. The fact that they've had to wait this many years because of the queen and because of "appearance" has always been ridiculous to me.

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Well, they're just making legal what they've been living all these years anyway. It's a shame that Diana got dragged through all this mess. The queen should've just let Charles marry Camilla when they first fell in love. Diana was just a pawn.

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« Reply #4 on: Feb 10^th, 2005, 3:41pm »

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Charles could have married her all along. IMO it was his choice to choose the monarchy and the crown over love.

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I kinda think his mom had a lot to do with his choosing the monarchy over the crown. I think she pushed him into marrying Diana. Had he only known that the old lady would live so long and not abdicate her throne for her son, he might have chosen a different path.

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