Duchess Camilla was met with a storm of criticism when she and Prince Charles made it public that they were dating. For years they had an affair while they were both married to someone else. Learning to live with so much criticism was “not easy”, Camilla tells the British magazine vogue†
The relationship between Charles and Camilla became official after the divorce of Charles and his wife Diana in 1996. A year earlier, Camilla had separated from her husband Andrew Parker Bowles.
“It wasn’t easy,” Camilla tells the vogue† “I was under scrutiny for so long. And you have to find a way to live with that. Nobody likes to be looked at all the time and, you know, criticized. But I think I’ll get there eventually I’ve risen above. You have to get on with life.”
Diana died a year after the divorce from Charles as a result of a car accident. The mother of Prince William and Prince Harry was very popular with the British people. That and the affair between Charles and Camilla caused Camilla to receive a lot of criticism.
Camilla says in the interview that the relationship with Charles is sometimes hard work, because they both have a full agenda. “Sometimes it’s hard,” she says, “but we always try to see each other. Sometimes it’s short, but we like to have a cup of tea together to discuss the day. It’s nice to catch up.”
“Although I think it’s best to sit together in the same room and read a book. We don’t have to say anything. We’re just together.”