Mr. Parker-Bowles
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Camilla Parker-Bowles
BlondeIsBetter — 19 years ago(January 03, 2007 09:00 PM)
In all the books I have read about the adulterous relationship of Camilla and Prince Charles, it is still a mystery as to why and how Camilla's husband never said or did anything about it.. Did he even care that his wife was obviously cheating on him with Prince Charles? Did they pay him off to keep him quiet and not divorce her? I mean, he and Camilla were always invited together to these events. What did they do with him when Camilla was off shagging Charles? Did he just sit in the corner drinking tea and wait until they were finished, and then take her home again? Very strange.
And what about those all night meetings with Prince Charles? I mean, her husband knew all about it, why didn't he say or do anything, didn't he care at all?
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MJC4861 — 17 years ago(July 23, 2008 01:56 PM)
He was Colonel Andrew Parker-Bowles when Charles and Diana married in 1981. By the time the royal marriage was on the rocks a decade later, he had been promoted to Brigadier General as a member of the Royal Household. In the royal wedding photographs, he is riding a horse near Prince Charles and Diana's carriage.
A year before Charles courted Diana Spencer, Parker-Bowles (a first cousin of Di's distant relative the Duke of Marlborough, with whom he bears a remarkable resemblance) began an affair with Lady Charlotte Peel, an Earl's daughter who was married to a grandson of the Duke of Marlborough's other distant relative Winston Churchill. Charlotte's daughter Clementine Hambro was Diana's youngest and most endearing bridesmaid at the Royal Wedding. She was the adorable, blonde, five-year-old who nearly stole the show, but for Diana.
Andrew Parker-Bowles had cheated on Camilla before and after they married in 1973, so he was hardly in a position to complain. He would usually say that he was amazed that the Prince was so fond of his wife, and that his wife was so fond of the Prince.
He is not Mr. Parker-Bowles by a longshot, but Brigadier Parker-Bowles. His own cousin Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill once referred to him as Mr. Ernest Simpson at the Royal Ascot races in 1992 after the publication of Diana: Her True Story, an insult that Andrew Parker-Bowles refused to tolerate in public. Ernest Simpson, as everyone knows, was the hapless second husband of Wallis Warfield, the American woman for whom Charles's great-uncle King Edward VIII abdicated the throne after her very scandalous 1936 divorce. The implication was obvious and Spencer-Churchill should have been horsewhipped.
By the way, Parker-Bowles has since remarried happily to a longtime friend and they were invited to Charles and Camilla's wedding in 2005. Wouldn't Diana have been amazed?