When the former Camilla Parker Bowles is regally invested and crowned Queen alongside her husband, King Charles III, this weekend, it will be the culmination of a remarkable transformation.
Two years before her death in 1997, the late Princess Diana famously referred to Camilla as the “third person” in her marriage with then-Prince Charles.
The mistress label — and the derision that came with it — would stick for many years, including after Queen Elizabeth II gave Charles and Camilla’s relationship her blessing and the couple married in 2005.
But those who have followed her evolution from a subject of ridicule to adulation say
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