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    The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown
    The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown
    The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown
    Audiobook12 hours

    The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown

    Written by Penny Junor

    Narrated by Jenny Funnell

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall—the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana ""a bit crowded""—esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled as a pariah who, thanks to numerous twists of fate, became the popular princess consort.

    Few know the Windsor family as well as veteran royal biographer and journalist Penny Junor. In The Duchess, she casts her insightful, sensitive eye on the intriguing, once widely despised, and little-known Camilla Parker Bowles, revealing in full, for the first time, the remarkable rise of a woman who was the most notorious mistress in the world.

    As Camilla’s marriage to Charles approached in 2005, the British public were upset at the prospect that this woman, universally reviled for wrecking the royal marriage, would one day become queen. Sensitive to public opinion, the palace announced that this would never happen; when Charles eventually acceded to the throne, Camilla would be known as the princess consort. Yet a decade later British public sentiment had changed, with a majority believing that Camilla should become queen.

    Junor argues that although Camilla played a central role in the darkest days of the modern monarchy—Charles and Diana’s acrimonious and scandalous split—she also played a central role in restoring the royal family’s reputation, especially that of Prince Charles. A woman with no ambition to be a princess, a duchess, or a queen, Camilla simply wanted to be with, and support, the man who has always been the love of her life. Junor contends that their marriage has reinvigorated Charles, allowing him to finally become comfortable as the heir to the British throne.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperAudio
    Release dateApr 10, 2018
    ISBN9780062799005
    The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown
    Author

    Penny Junor

    British journalist, broadcaster, and author Penny Junor has covered the Royal Family for nearly thirty years. She is the author of biographies of both the Prince and Princess of Wales, their two sons, and two British prime ministers, and the coauthor of Patti Boyd’s autobiography, Wonderful Tonight, which was an instant number one New York Times bestseller. She is married with four children and lives in Wiltshire, England.

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    • 2/5
      I can feel the angst against Diana. Better look for other books that can present facts fairly or write objectively.

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    • 1/5
      This book was written by an obvious court jester imo. So, Charles designed and commissioned a bracelet entwining their initials
      for Camilla right before his wedding to Diana. But Diana was a hysterical, over reacting neurotic for expressing her outrage according to the author. Then he wears cuff links with his and Camilla's initials on his honeymoon with Diana. Again, Diana is accused of overreacting. And on it goes. Court jesting at its ultimate. Laughable. Don't bother.
    • 2/5
      I found this book regarding the long-awaited wife of Prince Charles of England, to be boring and filled with titles, unimportant details, and a long-winded story of the affair of Camilla Parker Bowles and Price Charles while they were both married.
    • 4/5
      The first nine index entries in order for Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Rothsesay:-- friendly/warm personality-- as strong character-- groundedness of-- compassion of-- family as paramount for-- advocate for women-- as emotional support for Charles-- passion for books and literacy-- charities supported byYou get the idea? This is clearly a "Pro-Camilla" work. But admittedly, this is well-done, clearly written, and pretty convincing.
    • 4/5
      This was surprisingly interesting. It went over a lot of familiar ground, and was very supportive of the Duchess, but kept my interest and didn't seem too fawning or, despite the subtitle, too malicious.