
Andrew had plenty of other girlfriends for Camilla to worry about. “It’s also a stretch to say that Camilla wanted to ‘get back’ at Andrew for his involvement with Anne. PRINCE PHILIPS brutal assessment of his son Prince Charless affair with Camilla during his marriage to Princess Diana is laid bare in a new book about the Duke of Edinburgh. “By the time Charles met Camilla some 18 months later, the romance between Anne and Andrew was in the distant rear-view mirror,” Bedell-Smith tells Vogue.

Princess Anne and Andrew Parker Bowles were actually together in 1971. Although Princess Anne was linked to Andrew Parker Bowles (Shand’s on-and-off boyfriend and future husband), their connection didn’t overlap with Camilla and Charles’s courtship. They broke things off when Charles went off to sea. However, when Charles left for the Royal Navy they split up, and Camilla got engaged to Army officer Andrew Parker Bowles. Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles met for the first time in 1970 at a polo match and started dating.


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The prince was still married to Princess Diana at the time, but the full conversation was leaked in January 1993, a. (Charles also confirmed this to journalist Jonathan Dimbleby.) This rules out one plot point: the love quadrangle. Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005 Credit: AFP - Getty. Tampongate, sometimes misogynistically called Camillagate, refers to a secretly recorded conversation between Charles and Camilla in 1989, in which the Prince of Wales joked that he’d like to be Camilla’s tampon. How did Prince Charles and Camilla Shand meet? There are conflicting reports: BBC says a polo match in 1970, but according to Sally Bedell Smith, author of the New York Times best-selling biography Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life-the couple was introduced by mutual friend Lucia Santa Cruz in 1972.
