#duchess of cornwall fiction

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15 October 2013 | Eleanor Catton, author of "The Luminaries" receives the award from Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall after she won the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction at The Guildhall in London, England. (c) Anthony Devlin-WPA Pool/Getty Images

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Sheehan Karunatilaka wins The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida

Karunatilaka wondered what it would feel like to handle the ongoing trauma of war if the dead could speak, and she thought of writing a ghost story. Although he was reluctant to write about the war, he began working on it years later, around 2014. For a long time, he struggled with the tone. In the end, the narrative opens up as a dark comedy when he imagines the afterlife as a nice bureaucracy. He writes: “The afterlife is a tax office and everyone wants their deduction.” “This is perhaps a reasonable explanation for why Sri Lanka seems to be going from tragedy to tragedy, and that there are all these restless spirits and ghosts wandering around, confused, unsure of what they are supposed to do, and amuse themselves in whispers of ill-wishers,” Karunatilaka said in a video posted to Poker. e: “Thoughts are in people’s ears.” “I thought this was a useful way to explore this dark topic, but with a bit of lightness and a bit of fun too.” The first person novel was written in Colombo in 1989, when a war photographer named His Excellency Almeida woke up dead, without any idea how and why he was killed. He sets out to solve the mystery of his own murder, and the numbers that have been targeted because of his explosive photos. Almeida, a gambler, atheist and closed homosexual, tries to navigate the afterlife, and is said to have “seven moons” to find out who killed him and uncover his cache of images. Along the way, he encounters disfigured and maimed victims of sectarian violence. The novel, published in Britain in August by Sort of Books, an independent British publishing house, has drawn comparisons to the magical realist works of Salman Rushdie and Gabriel García Márquez. It will be published in the US by WW Norton next month. loading Critic Tomiwa Owolade wrote in Watchman. Karunatilaka is the second Sri Lankan-born author to win the Booker Prize since its founding in 1969, after Michael Ondaatje, whose novel English patient He won in 1992. Last year, Sri Lankan writer Anuk Arudpragasam was shortlisted North Pass. The Booker, which comes with a cash prize of £50,000 ($90,000), is awarded annually to the best novel written in English and published in Britain or Ireland. Previous winners have included literary giants such as VS Naipaul, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood, Ian McEwan and Hilary Mantel, and the award has launched the careers of emerging novelists such as Douglas Stewart, Arundhati Roy and Aravind Adiga. While the prize was previously open only to writers from Britain, Ireland, the Commonwealth and Zimbabwe, the judges changed the rules in 2014, opening them to all English-speaking authors whose work has been released in Britain or Ireland. loading Last year, the award was given to South African writer Damon Galgot for his novel The PromiseAbout the descendants of Dutch settlers trying to hold on to their family farm and status in post-apartheid South Africa. Karunatilaka received the award Monday night in London, during a star-studded gala featuring pop star Dua Lipa and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and wife of King Charles. Upon accepting the award, Karunatilaka said he hoped the novel would be read and taken seriously in his homeland, and that one day it would be seen as a work of pure fiction, rather than as political satire. “My hope seven moons It is this: that in the not-too-distant future, 10 years or whatever it takes, it is read in Sri Lanka that the ideas of corruption, ethnic seduction and nepotism didn’t work, and never will,” he said. “I hope you read in Sri Lanka and learn from its stories.” Source link Originally published at Melbourne News Vine

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I've only ever read fiction before but I've been wanting to try some non fiction too, so both I guess.

Hmm ok so for fiction:

Stuff written during the Regency:

Evelina by Fanny Burney. Epistolary novel and coming-of-age novel about a young country miss who goes to London and has to learn social rules. I don't think Burney's stuff aged as well as Austen's, but this one if my favorite of hers.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The OG. The beginning of science fiction, arguably, depending on how you feel about Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World, or that thing Cyrano de Bergerac wrote where he says he flew to the moon using some geese.

Manfred by Lord Byron. I have a real soft spot for this uber dramatic, Gothic closet drama in verse. It is really nuts, but a real fun read.

Endymion by John Keats. Another epic poem, one which gives us "a thing of beauty is a joy forever." Contains what I think are some of Keats's most beautiful images outside La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Ode to a Nightingale.

Honorary mention to Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe here, which I loved as a kid, but I suspect did not age well. It's one of those novels that was really progressive, for 1819, in its treatment of Jewish characters, but I'm willing to bet that if you looked at it now, it would be Bad.

Stuff written about the Regency, much later:

Life-Mask, by Emma Donoghue. Warning, this book is extremely long and slow-paced, but so, so good. So chockful of details and complicated relationships between historical figures, and insights into the world of the Regency stage. Focuses half on the actress Elizabeth Farren and her rise in the world and eventual marriage to an Earl, and half on the lesbian sculptor Anne Damer.

Cotillion by Georgette Heyer. It's a silly, fluffy romp about a spunky ingenue getting a fashionable himbo to help her have a Season in London. Great escapism.

Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian. The first of a twenty book epic adventure series, and the one you really need to read if you want to understand where everyone is on the ship at any given point in time.

Horatio Hornblower by C. S. Forster. Another epic naval adventure series. Not quite as fun as Master and Commander as the main character's very gloomy and depressed all the time, but my introduction to the Age of Sail, so it still holds a place in my heart.

In terms of Regency romances, I'm fond of Tessa Dare, Sarah MacLean, and Carla Kelly, but their historical accuracy is... suspect at times.

Honorable mention to the Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwall, which I devoured, and love for their battle sequences... but every single female character gets a really raw deal in every single book. The BBC series is real fun, and features a young Sean Bean wearing very tight pants and shouting, "Bastard!" across the Iberian Peninsula.

Non-fiction:

Dress in the Age of Jane Austen by Hilary Davidson is my favorite book about the Regency ever, ever, ever. It's very serious fashion history that manages to touch on every aspect of Regency life. SO HELPFUL for fic stuff.

Black London by Gretchen Gerzina. Available free as an ebook!

I'm really fond of Elizabeth Longford's two volume biography of Wellington, Kate Williams’s biography of Emma, Lady Hamilton, and William Hague's biographies of William Pitt the Younger (Prime Minister for the early part of the Regency) and William Wilberforce (British politician credited with ending slavery). I have a love-hate relationship to Amanda Foreman's biography of Georgianna, Duchess of Devonshire because it's a gripping read, but it felt at times like the author was really in love with her subject and let that bias her interpretation of sources.

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Hello! What do you think will happen with Camilla? Will she be crowned Queen or she will get the Princess consort title (or just be made Hrh The Princess Camilla in her own right like Philip)?

She'll be Queen. There is no constitutional position of "Princess consort."

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens-when-queen-elizabeth-dies-london-bridge

The rehabilitation of Camilla as the Duchess of Cornwall has been a quiet success for the monarchy, but her accession as queen will test how far that has come. Since she married Charles in 2005, Camilla has been officially known as Princess Consort, a formulation that has no historical or legal meaning. (“It’s bullshit,” one former courtier told me, describing it as “a sop to Diana”.) The fiction will end when Elizabeth II dies. Under common law, Camilla will become queen — the title always given to the wives of kings. There is no alternative. “She is queen whatever she is called,” as one scholar put it. “If she is called Princess Consort there is an implication that she is not quite up to it. It’s a problem.” There are plans to clarify this situation before the Queen dies, but King Charles is currently expected to introduce Queen Camilla at his Accession Council on D+1. (Camilla was invited to join the Privy Council last June, so she will be present.) Confirmation of her title will form part of the first tumultuous 24 hours.

Philip was made Prince because he could not be made "King consort," as King is considered a higher title than Queen.

Regardless, we’ll find out in the next ten days. Or less. 

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An article by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall on her love of reading, written for The Sunday Times

As a child, living happily in the depths of the Sussex countryside, I travelled the world without ever leaving my room. From the dank cells of the Bastille, to the stalls of Barchester Cathedral, through bleak graveyards, overgrown with nettles, to tropical beaches, empty save an ominous footprint.  

I crossed windswept moors with brooding heroes, battled three-headed dogs and white witches alike and climbed Magic Faraway Trees. That is the eternal power of a good book, the joyous escape into another world.  My father was a passionate bibliophile who would read to his children every night. Life without books was, for him, a life not worth living. He passed his love of reading on to me.

So last year, as the country locked down for the first time, I decided to compile a list of some of my favourite books…my own “Desert Island Books”. Much to my delight, people from all over the world wrote to me, sharing their views on my choices.  Some agreed with my lists, others did not, but many were kind enough to share their own favourites with me.

The most moving letters were those from people who described how books had been their lifeline during lockdown. In some cases, their only company for weeks had been characters from novels. Not surprisingly, the sales of fiction rose by a third during the first lockdown.

Reading was comforting us, making us laugh, taking us on journeys that we could not undertake in the flesh and, crucially, reminding us that we were not alone. We had found community in reading at a time when we were, sadly but necessarily, unable to be with those we love.

Later in the year, I was preparing a speech for the virtual Booker Prize, when I came across Ben Okri’s Poem for the Booker Prize. He described “a universal / Community within / The infinite space / Of our collective reading souls”. I thought – that’s it. That is exactly what I feel part of: a universal community of reading souls. And, notwithstanding my advanced age and entrenched technophobia, I thought the best space for us to meet one another might be online.

I spoke to various book-ish friends to seek their advice. With huge thanks to them, the result is my Reading Room:  an Instagram account that explores the magical world of books; the extraordinary people who write them; and the enormous emotional, social and educational benefits of reading. The account launched two days ago, with a selection of my “Desert Island Books” and with some very generous contributions from the fabulous authors: Charlie Mackesy, Hilary Mantel, Elif Shafak, Delia Owens and William Boyd. I fervently hope that the Reading Room will be a resource, a reassurance and a refuge for all book lovers, on a digital desert island of our own.    

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October Roundup

Happy Halloween!

It’s been another unproductive writing month for which I don’t have an excuse other than laziness not feeling it - I ended up getting an ultrasound on my shoulder and, as expected, tendonitis/bursitis and while that’s an excuse not to do certain kinds of cardio, it’s not really an excuse not to write. But it is what it is.

I’m still undecided whether to do Nano this year - the plan was to bash out some fic this month and then focus on my (poor, neglected) novel in November, but that didn’t happen, and I’m not sure I want to stress myself out over it. So I might do an informal nano and just try and get as many words done on whatever project I’m feeling and see how we go.

Anyway, on to what I did do while I wasn’t writing.

Katheryn: The Tainted Queen by Alison Weir - I’ve enjoyed all of the “Six Queens” novels so far; Weir’s prose style isn’t exactly poetic and she does have that annoying tendency to conflate her historian credentials and fictional narrative, but its detailed as to the day to day life in the Tudor court and is engaging enough for that alone. I’ve always felt Kathryn Howard’s story to be one of the more tragic of Henry’s wives, not only because she was so young (in this novel 21 at the time of her death, although her true birthdate is unknown), but because her life seemed to have been played at the whims of various older men eager to take advantage of her. All but abandoned by a disinterested father to the home of her grandmother, the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, coerced into relationships with Henry Mannox and Francis Durham while still a teenager, pushed into Henry’s orbit by her scheming uncle, and pressured into an affair by Tom Culpepper. Weir’s Katheryn is naive and flighty, in and out of love with each of her abusers, but it’s not an unsympathetic portrayal. 

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett - this has been on my to read pile for years and I was finally in the mood for it. I was expecting it to be interesting, but I was surprised at how engrossing I found this book, knowing nothing about it going in other than it was about building a cathedral during The Anarchy. But I was drawn in by the interweaving narrative of Tom the Builder, Prior Philip, Lady Aliena, and the impact the tussle of power between King Stephen and Empress Maude has on their lives. 

The writing is a bit male-gazey - especially Tom’s lust for Ellen, William Hamleigh’s vile inner monologue (the rape scenes in particular are unnecessarily described), and did not need to hear (many times!) about Aliena’s huge breasts and pubic hair. That said, Aliena is a wonderful female character and along with Philip the most sympathetic and engaging. Jack seems a bit like Follet’s self insert and didn’t find the romance with Aliena that convincing, but overall I really enjoyed this book and will seek out the sequel/prequel.

Gutsy Women by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton - So, I am not the biggest fan of Clinton, but this was a gift and I am a fan of the subject matter, so... It is a nice introduction to some awesomeladies, and had certainly introduced me to a few I’d never heard of before and may seek our some full biographies.

Lucifer (seasons 3-5a) - I like this show, although I do wish they’d lean into the mythology side a bit more over the procedural/relationship angst. I really enjoyed seeing Tricia Helfer as the Supreme Goddess and Tom Welling as Cain, but both the latter and Eve are lost in plotlines that seem aimless rather than deliberate, and the show seems to take more delight in namechecking biblical figures than actually developing them as characters. Similarly, Michael is more an irritant than Big Bad (and Ellis’ American accent is terrible); he never seems truly threatening and the writing for Maze is just all over the place. I do continue however to appreciate the writers resisting the urge to pit the female characters against one another and it’s overall rather entertaining.

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (dir. Aaron Sorkin) - I have a love/hate relationship to most of Sorkin’s work - on the one hand I (mostly) find them engaging and eminently watchable, on the other hand he tends to veer into jingoistic cringe, sexism, and you can always pinpoint the exact moment the character stops speaking and Sorkin starts (the scene where Tom Hayden berates Abbie Hoffman’s activism as the reason why Democrats lose elections today is very yikes.) It’s important with any film based on true story not to take the filmmaker’s word for the events portrayed, as it’s always coloured by perspective and agenda, and Sorkin definitely has one. This is an interesting article about the real women excised from this film.

The Spanish Princess (Part 2, episodes 1-3) - Sigh. This show is definitely the “I don’t know what I was expecting” meme, but you know what, I was not expecting a bizarre Margaret Pole/Thomas More romance I ( mean, wtf?). But that’s not where the bullshit ends, we have the show, unintentionally or not, depicting Katherine as at least partly responsible for the death of her children, the first by leaving baby Henry on the cold floor all night why she prays for God’s favour (subtle, this show is not), and then (maybe) triggering a stillbirth by riding out into battle at Flodden complete with pregnancy armour.

This is what really annoys me with these shows that purport to tell history from a feminist perspective, is that they go for the nth degree and just make it ridiculous. It’s enough that Katherine was an excellent regent raising the army and rallying the troops, we doesn’t need to see her actually participating in the battle WHILE HEAVILY PREGNANT. It doesn’t make her look badass, it just makes her look moronic. They actually make Henry seem somewhat justified in his frustration with her! 

This is a hit piece on Katherine of Aragon in yass kween coating and I’m hate watching at this point.They also seem to be careening towards The Great Matter which seems to defeat the show’s purpose, to explore Katherine’s life as queen and marriage to Henry before all of that. There was enough drama in the years before Anne Boleyn came along, there’s no need for Katherine to stomp around in armor and Henry to declare he wants a “wife, not a solider”.

The death of Henry, Duke of Cornwall is one of those great “what if” moments, as if he had lived to adulthood there would likely have been no Great Matter, no English Reformation (at least in the way it happened), no Elizabeth I. For a while I’ve been mulling over an idea of an alternative history where Henry lived, which I know has been done before, but I’m more interested in Mary Tudor and how different her life would have been. Add it to all the other ideas for novels I think about a lot but will probably never write! 

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But he could have been worried about where his career was going afterwards and things like that can lead to things like that summer and dating her. If he had been worried enough, or effected enough by a character he'd put a decade into... Well, saying goodbye to that CAN cause people to act crazy for a while. It can be just as strong as effect as going through a breakup, or a career change, or moving. Loki may be fictional, the effect he had/has on Tom is not. That ending could have been rough.

Sorry forgot to put that was part one. All I'm saying is that character means a lot to him and he may have been in shock that it was really the end and reacted badly. Not the character dying so much as the large change in his career and even life in some aspects. Again, breakups and moving can cause similar reactions if not dealt with properly. Anyways, it was just a thought. Sometimes goodbyes of whatever kind can be tough. Also, do you don't think that summer was PR, either, for him at least?

(Catching up from yesterday.) Maybe you’re new? I’ve never thought the summer wasn’t real for him. Back to 2016. I’ve always thought it was real for him, and that any PR aspect was more for her advantage (covering Kimye, making CH jealous, etc). And that he went along because that was ‘what it took’ to be with her... putting up with the media frenzy and stage management on some occasions. That was very definitely her MO - Taymerica wasn’t new that year, she had been delightfully choreographing her SM the year before with Calvin and the squad, too. And that she would use him, abuse him, and discard him (and if I had my old blog, I could link to the posts from summer 2016 where I said as much). Which she has since admitted to in song. 

But putting this down to Loki’s fate? That’s putting on a lot of blinders. Did you completely forget that he was on an absolute high from OTHER characters attached to his name? Jonathan PIne was just about to bring him Emmy and other awards nominations - he was on the campaign circuit, he knew it was a very real possibility and he was working towards it. KSI was a big budget movie where he was the lead. The Bond rumours that got so insane that they suspended betting on him (lowest odds were something like 1/4 - not 4/1 which is still pretty low). No matter how you feel about Bond, the rumours would be insanely good PR for him and for his career. 

He was the toast of London, getting hugs from the Duchess of Cornwall (she’s a big fan), having Nick Jonas and Bret Easton Ellis fanboy over him and TNM. 

Loki as a character hadn’t been part of his work life for well over two years - he’d moved on with multiple other projects. He should have been able to expect to continue to do so, and to move on from the character in a positive way. That’s not someone who would have been anywhere near being worried about where his career was going. 

I’d argue he instead took his eye off the ball, and that’s when things came crashing down. 

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Camilla shares her passion for literacy with school children at Windsor Castle

The Duchess of Cornwall shared her passion for literacy with school children today as she attended the live broadcast of a creative writing competition. Camilla stepped out early to congratulate young winners of BBC Radio 2 competition 500 Words as the final was broadcast live on their Breakfast Show from Windsor Castle this morning.

Greeting guests in the castle’s Grand Waterloo Chamber, the duchess spoke of the “incredible imagination and talent” of the entrants and said that, as a member of the judging panel she had found it “a virtually impossible task” to choose the winners.

Chatting on stage with presenter Zoe Ball and chair of the judging panel Chris Evans, Camilla also admitted that she particularly favored a story about twins as she has twin grandsons.

“The person who wrote the twins story…I put a tick next to that,” said the duchess, who has five grandchildren including twins Louis and Gus. Camilla was joined by well-known figures including Downton Abbey actor Hugh Bonneville and television personality David Walliams who read out the bronze, silver, and gold-winning stories for each of the two age groups.

BBC Radio 2’s 500 Words asks children aged 5-13 to put pen to paper and compose an original work of fiction using no more than 500 words. The competition promotes literacy among children, something that the duchess has long been passionate about.

In addition to being an avid reader, Camilla is patron of a number of literacy charities including the National Literacy Trust, BookTrust, Beanstalk, and First Story.

During her speech, she noted the significance of the setting of the event.

“Now you probably came into the Castle thinking of a Royal Wedding or two,” the duchess said. “But they were just the most recent in a long line of memorable royal occasions in this historic place.”

She continued, “Windsor Castle is the longest-occupied castle in the world. It was the home of 39 monarchs and it’s at the heart of our country’s history, but alas, as you can no doubt hear, it is now also in the heart of Heathrow’s flight path!”

The Duchess then went on to speak about the evolution of the English language throughout the centuries.

“We are still adding words to this day,” she concluded. “They say about 1,000 new ones every year. That’s two whole entries for 500 Words!”

Rosa Moody, seven, from Swansea, whose story Fragile Freya won a Bronze award in the 5-9 age group, told T&C she was “so proud” of her story.“I feel really amazed that it was read on the stage,” she added. Of the Duchess, Rosa said, “She was very nice and kind.”

Esmé Harrison-Jones, 10, won a Gold award in the 10-13 age group with her story about chickens. “It took five days for me to write and as I got further into the story I knew what it was going to be about and what was going to happen,” she said.

Harrison Jones also shared what it was like meeting Camilla. “She was saying well done and congratulating me and saying she liked reading my story a lot,” she said.

For his part, British radio host Chris Evans, who served as chair of the judging panel, described the day as “amazing.”

“We’re just dead straight with each other,” he says of working with Camilla. “People say ‘how did you get her involved?’ We didn’t get her involved…They contacted us. She heard the show.”

He continued, “Her number one thing is children’s literacy.”

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14 October 2014 | Winner of the Man Booker for fiction 2014 Australian, Richard Flanagan author of 'The Narrow Road to the Deep North', is congratulated by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall as he is presented with the prize at the awards dinner at the Guildhall in London, United Kingdom. (c) Alastair Grant - WPA Pool/Getty Images

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Crime writer Val McDermid says Jubilee reading list should include more fiction book | Books | Entertainment

Crime writer Val McDermid says Jubilee reading list should include more fiction book | Books | Entertainment

It’s generally acknowledged the Queen is not a reader of fiction, hardly surprising since her required daily scrutiny of Red Boxes of official material takes anything up to three hours. And we know that when it comes to duty, she doesn’t shirk. But the Duchess of Cornwall is another passionate royal reader. During lockdown, she started her online Reading Room book club to encourage people to…

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(VIDEO) TRHs The Prince of Wales And The Duchess of Cornwall Visit the Set of EastEnders.

(VIDEO) TRHs The Prince of Wales And The Duchess of Cornwall Visit the Set of EastEnders.

On Thursday, March 31, 2022, Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall visited the set of EastEnders at Elstree Studios in Borehamwood, England. EastEnders debuted on BBC One on February 19, 1985, and immediately became a hit with viewers. The show, created by Ms. Julia Smith and Mr. Tony Holland, is set in, “…Albert Square in the East End of London in the fictional…

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10 belongings you didn't realize Camilla Parker Bowles

1- Camilla came from an upper-class family with royal connections.

Four-year-old Camilla is pictured front left at the marriage of Jeremy Cubitt and Diana du Cane. She was a bridesmaid together with her sister, Annabel. Their great-grandmother Alice Keppel was the mistress of Charles' great-great-grandfather, King Edward VII.

2- Camilla is that the oldest of three children.

Her sister, Annabel Elliot, is an indoor designer. She helped the royal couple redesign their Restormel Manor in Cornwall.

Her brother Mark, who died of a tragic head injury in 2014, was a travel writer.

3- She was married to Andrew Parker Bowles from 1973 to 1995.

Her now-ex-husband was a politician within the British Army and dated Princess Anne for a brief time in 1970. A fictionalized version of Parker Bowles, played by Andrew Buchan, appeared on season three of "The Crown" on Netflix .

According to Sally Bedell Smith's 2017 biography of Charles, the Prince of Wales and Camilla reportedly began their affair in 1986.

Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles divorced in 1995, a year before Charles' divorce from Diana.

4- She has two children from her previous marriage, Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes.

Tom may be a cookbook author and restaurant critic, while Laura works as an art curator. Charles is additionally Tom's godfather.

5- Camilla's ring from Charles belonged to the queen dowager.

Prince Charles and Camilla got engaged in February 2005 and wed that April. Her engagement ring's 5-carat emerald-cut diamond is surrounded by three diamond baguettes on either side.

6- Camilla is technically the Princess of Wales, but she doesn't use the title since it is so closely related to Diana.

Duke of Cornwall may be a title given to a reigning British monarch's oldest son. When Camilla married Charles, she took on the female version of the title because of the Duchess of Cornwall rather than the Princess of Wales. Princess Diana was still referred to as the Princess of Wales following her divorce from Charles in 1996. She died in 1997.

7- She has five grandchildren from her own two children, and five from her royal stepchildren.

Her son, Tom, has two children, Lola and Freddy. Laura features a daughter, Eliza, and twin boys, Gus and Louis. Eliza was a bridesmaid at Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding.

8- Camilla loves dogs, and she or he has two Jack Russell terriers named Beth and Bluebell.

She may be a royal patron of the Battersea Dogs and Cats range in London, where she adopted her dogs.

9- She's a fanatical fan of the outside and loves gardening.

The Duchess of Cornwall wont to enjoy foxhunt until it became illegal in 2005. She also told reporters on a 2018 visit to the Garden Museum in London, "I'd be called at my garden all day, a day if I were allowed. I like to urge my hands dirty."

10- Camilla Parker Bowles' parents, Bruce and Rosalind Shand, were wealthy aristocrats.

Camilla's father was a serious within the British Army and heir to his father's barony. Her mother, having been named "debutante of the year" in 1939, worked at an adoption agency and did charity work. They married in 1946.

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The wave of feeling will help to swamp the awkward facts of the succession. The rehabilitation of Camilla as the Duchess of Cornwall has been a quiet success for the monarchy, but her accession as queen will test how far that has come. Since she married Charles in 2005, Camilla has been officially known as Princess Consort, a formulation that has no historical or legal meaning. (“It’s bullshit,” one former courtier told me, describing it as “a sop to Diana”.) The fiction will end when Elizabeth II dies. Under common law, Camilla will become queen — the title always given to the wives of kings. There is no alternative. “She is queen whatever she is called,” as one scholar put it. “If she is called Princess Consort there is an implication that she is not quite up to it. It’s a problem.” There are plans to clarify this situation before the Queen dies, but King Charles is currently expected to introduce Queen Camilla at his Accession Council on D+1. (Camilla was invited to join the Privy Council last June, so she will be present.) Confirmation of her title will form part of the first tumultuous 24 hours.

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The Duchess of Cornwall attends the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2018 reception at the Guildhall, London, 16.10.2018 

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15 October 2013 | Eleanor Catton, author of "The Luminaries" greets Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall at the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction reception at The Guildhall in London, England. (c) Anthony Devlin-WPA Pool/Getty Images