King Charles – then the Prince of Wales – was 21 when he first met Camilla Shand, then 23, in 1970, after being introduced by mutual friend Lucia Santa Cruz at a polo match in Windsor Great Park.

The queen consort, formerly Camilla Shand, lacked an aristocratic bloodline and wasn't viewed as "virginal" enough for a proper courtship and role as a royal wife. Although they moved on to other ...

In The Crown, the royal family keeps Prince Charles and Camilla Shand apart after she was deemed an unsuitable bride Prince Charles’s love for Camilla is an enduring one — frequently ...

Introduced by mutual friend Lucia Santa Cruz at a 1970 polo match, a 23-year-old Camilla Shand was said to have walked up to the royal and hit him with a bold opening line. While biographer Penny ...

Camilla (nee Shand) married Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973 and they welcomed two children, Laura and Tom before splitting in 1995. Camilla Shand and Prince Charles met at a polo match in 1970 ...

Then-Camilla Shand married the British Army officer on July 4, 1973, more than three decades before she married now-King Charles III. Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles's wedding was attended by ...

Born Camilla Rosemary Shand, Queen Camilla was previously married to Andrew Parker Bowles, with whom she shares children Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes. Camilla Parker Bowles married King ...

Queen Camilla, born Camilla Rosemary Shand on July 17, 1947, in London, is the current Queen of the United Kingdom and wife of King Charles. Camilla is one of Bruce and Rosalind Shand’s three ...