and Deja - I think what the "heart" wanted was someone who was not going to eclipse him or even attract attention away from him. I don't think his ego could handle it.
Diana was beautiful to look at and possibly treated quite badly but I feel the Camilla and Charles story to be a real true-love story. Also Camilla was quite a looker in her youth too.
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I guess the heart wants what the heart wants, beauty be damned. And in a way, that's encouraging.
She was at her most beautiful in those Testino shots for VF.
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and Deja - I think what the "heart" wanted was someone who was not going to eclipse him or even attract attention away from him. I don't think his ego could handle it.
Everyone else has already said what I thought.
Diana was beautiful to look at and possibly treated quite badly but I feel the Camilla and Charles story to be a real true-love story. Also Camilla was quite a looker in her youth too.
You're leaving out the national interest. Diana brought style and dress sense to the royal family and hence to Britain.
My hairdresser cut Camilla's hair in the mid seventies and she liked the style so much, she never changed it.
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