King Charles was ‘miserable’ with ‘mismatch’ Diana… Camilla gave him backbone

King Charles was ‘miserable’ with ‘mismatch’ Diana… Camilla gave him backbone

uh big Royal event this week I’m not
talking about your book launch which was
a lot of fun thanks for thanks for
having us um but it was uh the king and
queen’s 19th wedding
anniversary um which is quite remarkable
really when you think about it there you
know it was a low-key event I think they
just they were at home um went up to Bal
moral later in the week but what’s been
the success what’s the secret of the
success between king and queen for
having such a what seems to be like a
very successful
marriage just briefly I think think what
I would the first thing that would come
into my head would be
laughter I mean Charles used to look so
miserable when he was married to the
gorgeous Diana How could a man look so
miserable married to someone so
beautiful and lovely but he was
obviously very unhappy um he just looks
so happy around Queen Camila and you can
tell that she’s sort of given him a a
backbone she is really a glass half full
and he is a glass half empty and she
said that and she makes him laugh
Clarence House is a really happy Place
full of laughter little bit chaotic um
just I think that they really have a
laugh and I think being well I know that
being Royal is really separates you from
the rest of the world it’s a very lonely
place to be and if you have someone
that’s you’re not getting on with it’s
even more difficult but
Camila um makes Charles laugh and also
if you think right back she’s so
supportive of him and she’s she Praises
him all the time darling you wonderful
your speech was wonderful um and he
needs that because in his youth he never
had that so and in his dotage I suppose
you could say he’s really being praised
and you can see how happy he is when
he’s meeting the crowds I never seen
Charles look so joyous as he was over
the Easter weekend and shaking hands
smiling and every sort of Walkabout he’s
done since he became king he’s been you
he looks a really happy man despite the
fact that he’s obviously not his health
is isn’t that great at the moment you
know you knew Princess Diana you used to
go to Kensington Palace obviously to
have Cups of Tea and have a chat with
her um you obviously have a lot of
affection for for Diana but why do you
think this this marriage you know say 19
years is is a great achievement why do
you think this has lasted so much longer
or been more successful than
than than his marriage to Diana well the
thing that with Charles and Diana’s
marriage is that they were at
loggerheads with each other and they
were both fying for top spot certainly
in the beginning Charles used to get
very very I mean asked Arthur Edwards
from the sun he was there right from the
beginning Charles used to get very
jealous he probably wouldn’t use that
word but envious of the fact that
everybody wanted to see his wife and he
was like an also ran um and I think that
a lot of their marriage was like that
and Diana was it was a mismatch she was
she was looking for something that
wasn’t there in him and even after they
had William and Harry um she said that
they had a real brief period of
Happiness before she had Harry and then
and and also she had this sort of
Spectre of Camila in her head the whole
time and she was obsessed with it and
that yet when I last spoke to her
shortly before her death I was very
brave anyhow I bought the subject of
Camila up and she said oh it wasn’t
Camila that ruined our marriage and I
thought what I don’t believe what I’m
hearing she said oh it wasn’t Camila it
was the people around my
husband and I thought it wasn’t Camila
and you’ve been complaining complaining
about Camila all these years but she
changed Haack and decided that it was
the environment in which keeping a royal
marriage together you’ve got to be very
strong and probably formal mature than
she was the talking about keeping the
relationship strong while you they’ve
gone up to Bal morrow or they’ve gone up
to ber Cole for for a week or so to kind
of relax camil’s definitely stepped up
and she’s now doing um you know she’s
now she’s now the Prince Philip role you
know she’s now the the strength and stay
of of the king um and she’s when the
late Queen was unwell uh Prince Charles
as he was then would would step in and
be the kind of leader of the royal
family but now it’s Camila is is the uh
is is the person that would that stands
in for the for for the king what do you
think about that do you think that’s you
glad that ciller is now the kind of the
main focal point of the Roy family when
the king’s not there she was all she she
led them into uh uh King Constantine’s
memorial service because obviously King
Charles couldn’t was unable to go to
that because the doctors said you got to
you know keep away from people but it
was different on Easter Sunday and I
think people really respect Kim because
she was 50 when she got into this family
she’s now
76 and it’s it’s unless you were born to
it it’s quite hard and they have huge e
The Windsor have massive energy Charles
as a Young Man used to run everywhere up
and down the corridors Prince philli
used to run everywhere and jump down all
those staircases to just because they
were in such big buildings to get there
quicker Camila doesn’t have that kind of
energy and I think it really takes it
out of her and I think people respect
her for what she’s done do we know um I
was thinking about the crown um do you
remember the the pet names they have for
each
other Charles and Camila yeah well they
were called Fred and Gladis oh that was
yeah that was years ago I I when people
have nicknames they usually change don’t
they different phases I mean we know
that that uh Harry is age and we know
that Megan is Meg but there could be
lots of other things and I do can’t
remember what Prince William was Big
Willie I think according to the news of
the world I think that’s I think that’s
and Kate was baby kins but people change
the nicknames over time so I don’t know
what Charles and Camila call each other
now darling I think I think so I mean
it’s still a really strong relationship
and here Char says it’s very nice when
he says my beloved wife as he used to
say with the queen my beloved mother
absolutely should we take a little romp
through the raw relationships good or
bad that are having at the moment abely
um William and Katherine we haven’t seen
them for a while uh justifiably because
Katherine obviously you know recovering
from from cancer how the last couple of
months have been incredibly stressful
for the prince of Princess of Wales um
they have a very strong couple but how
do you think they will be coping right
now I think what what the prince and
Prince of Wales are doing right now um
is just concentrating on their family
life um the children go back to school
next week um we’re going to we probably
will see Kate driving them to to school
possibly um um I think that they people
are just waiting to see her again but I
think when you see William and Kate
together they have a great relationship
they they they’re quite touchy feely but
not over touchy feely like Megan and
Harry are they don’t cling to each other
but occasionally they they do and they
laugh again I think it’s laughter they
laugh together a lot um and I think that
William is very very supportive of his
wife and I know that Carol Middleton has
said that to friends um
he is so supportive of my daughter and
she’s very sort of proud of proud of him
so you know it’s it’s it’s that Mutual
support they have with each other are
you surprised that there was a ugu poll
I think this week um that despite all
the Ferrari around the the Mother’s Day
photograph that the prince and princess
of Wales are still the two most popular
members of the royal family I mean
they’re not without their crisis
remember a couple of years ago the um
Caribbean tour you know which I was on
was an absolute PR disaster they’re not
without their problems what what is it
about their you know you talk about them
being warm and they are very you know
affectionate to each other in private
and public um what is it about their
relationship that really strikes a cord
with the public I think it’s the warmth
between them and the warmth that they
they you know it’s not fake it’s when
they give out warmth and of course that
Kate is a photographer’s dream she’s so
beautiful and Williams a very
good-looking uh young man and I think
that uh it’s it’s natural it’s not you
see with with Megan uh I feel it’s she’s
got one expression the big grin um and I
feel that’s all and that doesn’t feel
natural but with Kate and William
they’ve got all it’s just a warmth they
have and it it sort of exudes to
everybody around them

KING Charles was “so miserable” married to Diana but Queen Camilla has given him a “backbone”, according to a royal expert.

Royal editor Ingrid Seward revealed on The Sun’s Royal Show that the key to Charles and Camilla’s strong relationship is “laughter”.

Speaking to The Sun’s Royal Correspondent Matt Wilkinson, Ingrid shared: “Charles used to look so miserable when he was married to the gorgeous Diana – how could a man look so miserable married to someone so beautiful and lovely – but he was obviously very unhappy.

“He just looked so happy around Queen Camilla.

“And you can tell that she’s sort of given him a backbone.

“She is really a glass half full, and he is a glass half empty – and she said that – and she makes him laugh.”

Ingrid shared how King Charles and Queen Camilla’s London home Clarence House is a “really happy place” and it is “full of laughter” and a “little bit chaotic.”

The royal editor added: “I think that they really have a laugh.”

“And I know that being royal really separates you from the rest of the world – it’s a very lonely place to be.

“And if you have someone that you’re not getting on with, it’s even more difficult.”

Ingrid claimed that Queen Camilla is also “so supportive” of King Charles, which is something he “never had” growing up.

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