Charles And Camilla Portrait Of A Love Affair – Gyles Brandreth

Season have not yet got to know each other, but both the hostess and Camilla did plenty of introducing and it went with a swing. Mrs Kenward wrote in a special code well understood by her regular readers. For example, if a debutante was described as ‘pretty’ you could assume she was passably fair, but if the poor girl was described as ‘spirited’ you could take it she was as plain as they come. The Kenward report on the Shand bash for Camilla tells us all we need to know: Camilla was a nice-looking girl (not a beauty) and she and her mother worked like billy-o to get a slow-starting party moving — and succeeded.

The party was held at Searcy’s, 30 Pavilion Road, Knightsbridge, SW1, a fine Georgian house, traditionally appointed, conveniently located at the back of Harrods, and hired out by families whose own London homes were not large enough to accommodate the necessary numbers. Camilla had 150 guests: her parents remained in attendance throughout, but the other older guests, such as Mrs Kenward, departed by nine o’clock, leaving the young ones to enjoy themselves.

In her book about Camilla, the journalist Caroline Graham quotes a partygoer saying, ‘It was a fairly raucous affair. Most of the coming-out cocktail parties were rather stiff and dull. But Camilla’s was fun. She wore a lovely white dress and was the life and soul of the party. Everyone had such fun, the cocktails stretched on until eleven at night. Everyone got tipsy and Camilla was at the centre of it, throwing her head back telling bawdy jokes.

She must have danced and flirted with every man in the room.’ That is not quite as the Duchess of Cornwall remembers it. For a start, though a virgin, she did not wear white. Turn to the section between pages ooo and ooo and look at the photograph of Camilla and her mother taken at the beginning of that evening. They look quite apprehensive and their appearance — apart from Camilla’s fringe and her favourite chandelier earrings — has a distinctly sedate, 1950s feel to it.

Another partygoer — to whom I was directed by someone close to the Duchess — told me, ‘It was a fun evening, I’m sure, but I don’t recall excessive tipsiness or bawdy jokes or anything like that.

Gis is the definitive account of one of the most extraordinary love stories of our time. Gyles Brandreth, the acclaimed biographer of the Queen and Prince Philip, now presents a unique portrait of their son, Charles, Prince of Wales, and of the one ‘non-negotiable’ love of his life, Camilla Shand. Charles is heir to the throne. Camilla is the fee seeder of Edward VII’s mistress, Alice Keppel. (She is also, unlike Charles, a direct descendant of Charles II.) Their images are known Sued me world, but what are Charles and Camilla really like?

What is their heritage? What has made them the way they are? And what is the secret of their relationship — a relationship that began thirty-four years ago, survived the roller-coaster ride of separation, other affairs, his marriage to Diana Spencer, hers to Andrew Parker Bowles, and culminated in their own wedcling, at Windsor, in April 2005? This is both a remarkable — and revealing — psychologica! portrait of two unusual individuals and a family saga like no other, told with unrivalled authority and insight — and humour — by a writer who has met all the key characters in the drama: Charles, Camilla, Diana, their children, their families and their friends.

Superbly illustrated, Charles & Camilla: Portrait of a Love Affair is much more than a fascinating souvenir of a royal eenlae without precedent: it is the first book that goes behind the headlines, and gives a context — and historical perspective — to the extraordinary affair that has been making news for thirty years er has never been properly explored or understood before. £20.00 S$ re) a Southborouc Library Hl-os i Tel 01892 52980 01892 béoage 23 SEP 2017 ax Southboroughiithra @kent.gov.uk ii, JAN 06 02.

44 JAN 2012 a= ij LAWRENCE ‘2 16 MAR P01 21/08/04 PN, : AZollS Books should be returned or renewed by the last date stamped above. Kent County _— @elt lived CUSTOMER SERVICE EXCELLENCE 00884\DTP\RN\04.05 C152607476 Charles & Camilla PORTRAIT OF A LOVE AFFAIR GYLES BRANDRETH A former Oxford Scholar, President of the Oxford Union and MP for the City of Chester, Gyles Brandreth’s varied career has ranged from ‘ being a Whip and Lord Commissioner of the Treasury in John Major’s government to starring in his own award-winning musical revue in London’s West End.

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