Why is Queen Camilla such good associates along with her ex?

It’s a fact universally acknowledged that studying your ex-partner has a brand new flame may be troublesome to abdomen – however as Andrew Parker Bowles and Anne Robinson‘s romance is revealed, it is possible Andrew’s former spouse might be blissful for him.

Queen Camilla, who was married to the previous military brigadier for 22 years from 1973 till 1995, has maintained a powerful and shut friendship with Andrew – and he even had a particular invitation on the visitor record to the Coronation in May.

Their agency alliance comes regardless of a turbulent marriage spanning the 20 years wherein they welcomed two youngsters, meals author Tom, 48 and artist Laura Lopes, 45, however each dedicated infidelities.

Camilla was famously Charles’s mistress throughout her marriage to Andrew, whereas the latter is described by associates as having been ‘very naughty with women’ all through.

But it appears any variations have been put apart because the pair are ‘joined on the hip’, as one insider has beforehand put it – claiming they’re continually in contact and make a fantastic group.

The writer Tina Brown has claimed it was Andrew, slightly than Charles, who was the love of Camilla’s life. Whatever the reality, the person Brown describes as ‘a walking pink gin’ is claimed to stay considered one of her chief confidantes.

‘They are joined at the hip,’ in line with a pal. ‘He arranges so much for her. They have lunch together the whole time. He’s proper in there. He was all the time, and nonetheless is, Camilla’s co-conspirator.’

The Sun reported final evening that the previous Weakest Link and Countdown presenter has been in a relationship with the Queen’s ex-husband for round a yr.

An insider informed the paper: ‘They have judiciously averted being photographed collectively as they each needed to maintain this quiet for so long as potential.

‘Annie proudly tells everybody she is the daughter of a market dealer chicken-seller and is as far faraway from a toff as may very well be – frankly it beats any storyline The Crown may presumably give you.

‘Annie and Andrew get on splendidly, she makes him snort, rather a lot, and he is without doubt one of the few folks to get away with poking enjoyable at her. She likes to joke she’s “new money”.’

Known as ‘The Brigadier’ in reference to his former profession as a military officer who served with the Blues and Royals and was awarded a Queen’s Commendation for Bravery in Zimbabwe, Andrew has moved in royal circles for many years.

As a 13-year-old, he served as a web page to Lord Simonds, then the Lord High Chancellor, on the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.

‘My mother was a good friend of the Duke of Norfolk,’ he recalled. ‘The Lord Chancellor had no children so Bernard Norfolk suggested me to Lord Simonds. I have to say that he was the nicest man alive and gave me a very nice set of cufflinks.’

He described a sword combat in the course of the gown rehearsal, saying: ‘All the pages had these little swords. If a group of bored small boys all have swords, you know what’s going to occur.’

Prior to marrying Camilla, he had a quick fling with Princess Anne, however his Catholicism is claimed to have dampened the prospects of marriage. They stay nice associates, nevertheless, and she or he later named him godfather to her daughter Zara.

He additionally performed polo on the identical group as Charles when each males had been younger and rode within the Grand National in 1969, coming eleventh.

He first met Camilla within the late Nineteen Sixties and so they dated on and off for a number of years earlier than marrying in 1973.  

According to Andrew’s cousin John Bowes Lyon, the couple had been pressured into making the dedication when each their fathers revealed an engagement discover for them in The Times. 

‘His hand publicly forced, Andrew proposed to his girlfriend of nearly seven years,’ wrote the writer Sarah Bedell Smith.

‘Camilla was very much in love with [Andrew],’ Bowes Lyon informed Smith. ‘Her parents were very keen that Andrew should marry her.’

The Queen Mother, Princess Anne and Princess Margaret all attended their marriage ceremony, and the reception passed off in St James’s Palace.

As a commanding officer of the Household Cavalry,  Andrew accompanied the newly married Charles and Diana on horseback following their marriage ceremony in 1981.

Tina Brown claimed that Camilla solely resumed her affair with Charles as a result of she  was indignant at her husband’s infidelities. 

Once seen as a dashing determine and one thing of a women man, Parker Bowles is claimed to have supplied at the least among the inspiration for Rupert Campbell-Black, a personality in Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster Riders.

Andrew and Camilla divorced in 1995, saying in a press release that ‘throughout our marriage we have always tended to follow rather different interests, but in recent years we have led completely separate lives.’

The following yr, he married his long-term mistress Rosemary Pitman. They had been collectively till Rosemary handed away in 2010 of most cancers, aged 69. 

At the time of her dying it was reported that Camilla was ‘deeply saddened’ by the information.

Andrew was a visitor at Charles and Camilla’s marriage ceremony in April 2005, attending their service of blessing at St George’s Chapel, Windsor.

The Marchioness of Lansdowne, considered one of Camilla’s Queen’s Companions, has stated: ‘Everybody loves Andrew. He’s an actual charmer however he’s all the time terribly misbehaving.

‘Andrew will ring her up and tell her when she’s obtained one thing incorrect and she or he’ll ring him up and say when he’s misbehaving. 

‘Through adversity they’ve saved a very good household ethic. It helps with their youngsters and grandchildren.’