Though
intense,
their
initial
romance
was
short-lived.
Charles’
decision
to
join
the
Royal
Navy
strained
their bond
as
did
the
public’s
perception
that
the
onetime
receptionist
lacked
several
necessary
attributes.
She
had
no
royal
lineage
in
her
blood
and, “She
wasn’t
a
virgin,”
royal
biographer
Chris
Wilson
told
Dateline, “and
back
in
the
early
1970s,
weird
as
it
seems,
we
wanted
to
have
a
Princess
of
Wales
who’d
never
been
to
bed
with
anyone
else.”
Author
and
Camilla
pal
William
Shawcross
argued,
however,
that
their
main
issue was
she
simply
fell
for
future
husband
Andrew
Parker
Bowles: “I
know
that
she
loved
Andrew
very
much.”
While
Camilla
may
have
been
enamored,
Charles—serving
in
the
Caribbean
at
the
time—felt
crushed
when
he
learned
his
former
paramour
was
set
to
wed.
Detailed
Junor, “It
seemed
to
him
particularly
cruel,
he
wrote
in
one
letter,
that
after ‘such
a
blissful,
peaceful
and
mutually
happy
relationship,’
fate
had
decreed
that
it
should
last
a
mere
six
months.”
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