Camilla, from impossible love to queen consort of England?

"In the fields of Flanders poppies grow. Row after row between the crosses that mark our graves." Thus begins the poem that John McCrae, a World War I soldier, wrote to honor his dead comrades. The British celebrate every November 11 the armistice that ended that meat grinder. Few times has Queen Elizabeth missed the solemn act of Poppy Day or Remembrance Day (Poppy Day or Remembrance Day). This year, a statement from Buckingham Palace excused the attendance of

due to back pain.

She was represented by her family headed by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, who in recent months have been so lavish that they seem like the queen consort. On

we saw her at the Royal Albert Hall in a bold black hat topped with gaudy ostrich feathers. It was cold, and with her face rosy like a cooked shrimp, Camilla wore an elegant black coat, black leather gloves, and an unavoidable large poppy brooch. At 74, with her hair styled in her signature bouffant look, she looked radiant despite the gloom of the occasion.

On November 26, at the Guildhall (London City Hall), he paid tribute to

The Duchess delivered a speech at the Rifles Awards biennial dinner in London.

Since July 2020 he has replaced the Duke of Edinburgh as Colonel-in-Chief of the Rifles (an infantry regiment of the British Army).

The next day, Saturday, Camilla went to Ascot Racecourse in a stylish recycled tweed coat and a pair of brown knee-high boots.

THE BRITISH PEOPLE LOVE CAMILLA

The echo that these appearances and the press reviews awaken are the reflection that the Duchess of Cornwall, finally, has ended up being accepted by the British. Half a century later, he has softened his ways,

has slowly won over the people, and is now one of the most popular members of the royal family. Much more, of course, than Harry and Meghan. The dark days of the "third person" in the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Wales are long gone.

Those were bad times those of the publication, in 1992, of Andrew Morton's book 'Diana: Her True Story', which revealed the adulterous adventures of Carlos and Camilla. And then, in 1993, the

scandal

when the tabloids published a transcript of an intimate and humid telephone conversation of the lovers. The prince's reputation was touched; Camilla's, sunk in the abyssal depths of scorn. When Diana died in Paris in 1997, press bullying made Camilla's life hell.

He tried to cope and did not complain of the mistreatment.

Sometimes he bounced around and wondered how long it would last, but he

It is possible, of course, that this attitude was a defensive and preservation tactic, that of someone chastened and disappointed who, rather than not having it, suffocates the slightest hint of hope.

CHANGES IN YOUR PERSONALITY

How have you achieved such a remarkable rehabilitation?

The work of public relations expert Mark Bolland in the run-up to his marriage helped a lot, piecing together the shattered fragments of a shattered reputation.

But, as Heraclitus glimpsed, character is destiny and Camilla is

and brave as herself.

Both virtues that he shares with his mother-in-law, the queen.

He always had, without being fully conscious, the gift of

of overturning prejudices without delighting in the ensuing uproar, which he never fully understood.

Smart Girl, after an exercise in self-examination and understanding, it would not take long for her to repress entire areas of her spontaneity, not out of conviction but out of caution.

In a deeply secret operation, while still being herself, she tried to limit her expressiveness and frankness within the limits of what is convenient.

Prince Charles and Camilla fell in love 50 years ago.

Now it has become very popular.

Traces of animosity still persist, but it is only a matter of time, because the more it becomes known, the

People already see her as queen consort, especially since Princes William and Harry appeared happily next to the couple on their wedding day.

If Diana's children had accepted her, there was no excuse for not all of them.

Indeed, the British are convinced that by her experience and character, the Duchess

the necessary corrective for a prim and authoritarian Prince of Wales who throughout his life resisted giving up his wishes without admit that the world is not obliged to fulfill them.

GREAT SUPPORT FOR CARLOS

It is not she who will be at the helm when Carlos, God willing, puts on the crown; but it is

She has never set out to replace Diana, and with her sympathy and intelligence she makes her husband a better man. The most knowledgeable say sotto voce that the Megxit (the terrified of the Sussexes) deeply affected Carlos, thankfully he had his wife by his side. As her mother-in-law had the Duke of Edinburgh through thick and thin.

Camilla's biographer Gyles Brandreth, author of 'Portrait of a Love Affair', says that "looking at them together, it's clear that

is playful with him and makes him happy. She has no desire to be in the spotlight. There is no competition. All she wants is for her husband to do well. "

The queen knows.

He likes this daughter-in-law and appreciates the support she offers to his heir.

Elizabeth II has come to recognize that the relationship between her son and Camilla is

she has ever known.

The couple have resisted against all odds and, although they put the dynasty at serious risk, their extraordinary love story - unhappy, but with a happy ending - moves everyone and the queen as well.

Perhaps no one has told it better than Penny Junor in her 2017 book The Duchess: The Untold Story.

In one of its pages, the author recalls that Camilla felt vindicated when the monarch, in a moving speech on her wedding day,

WILL IT BE A PRINCESS OR QUEEN?

However, will Camilla inherit the title from her mother-in-law? When she became the wife of the heir, Clarence House (the couple's official residence) announced that, when the time came, she would

even though the title is unprecedented in English common law: The Wives of Kings they automatically become queens. According to the couple, Clarence House was thus trying to ingratiate himself with the memory of Princess Diana.

Sixteen years later, everything indicates that Camilla, despite everything, will be queen consort.

In fact, in 2018, Clarence House removed all references to "Princess Consort" from its website.

Plus, Camilla - so active in public service, charity initiatives, and campaigns against domestic abuse and gender-based violence - has earned the stripes.

People finally understand what Carlos saw in her 50 years ago.

It has cost them, but they respect her, admire her and begin to love her.

Better beats ...

It will not be a reissue of Isabel II

(neither generationally nor statutory would that be possible), but it already shares with her some of its best virtues: prudence, experience, extraordinary self-confidence and a reinforced concrete character.

When, in the early 1970s, Carlos de Gales and Camilla Shand were introduced by Lucía Santa Cruz, daughter of the Chilean ambassador, they experienced, Brandreth writes, "an immediate, mutual and passionate attraction."

It was a

the life event of a stainless love.

She was already Carlos's girl forever.

It already is that of the majority of the British people.

He has earned it.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

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