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...front pages of the tabloids. But the death of the princess appears to have done the unexpected: it has not only reinvigorated the monarchy itself but has also burnished the picture of an intimate family unit--Charles, William and Harry, with increasingly regular appearances by Charles' longtime lover, Camilla Parker Bowles--that appears to be affectionate, complex, fun-loving and modern, the very territory the princess had staked out for herself. Says Harold Brooks-Baker, the publishing director of Burke's Peerage, a guide to all that is officially noble in Britain: "It's extraordinary that the person...
...movies with friends, called his father to tell him he'd be stopping home for a change of clothes. Prince Charles asked his son if he would not mind spending a few moments with a houseguest, one the boy had never met before--Charles' mistress of 26 years, Camilla Parker Bowles...
Speculation about who exactly might have leaked news of the Wills-Camilla meeting has turned into something of a London parlor game. The palace was furious at the suggestion that it provided the tip-off. Indeed, Prince Charles was said to be upset that word had filtered out; he surely understood that Diana's friends and fans would find it insensitive to have Parker Bowles meeting Wills before the first anniversary of the princess's death. Another theory has it that friends of Parker Bowles passed on the information in hopes that it would help redeem her reputation among...
...Parker Bowles ever gain the acceptance her friends wish for her, it is still unlikely that she and Charles would wed. The couple, according to royal watchers, has accepted the fact that marriage is not an option. Charles hasn't intimated that he would forfeit the throne to make Camilla his wife. The most they can hope for is a comfortable live-in relationship...
...that reason alone it makes sense that Parker Bowles should involve herself in the lives of the young princes. Says Harold Brooks-Baker, publishing director of Burke's Peerage: "The situation has been ridiculous. Camilla and her ex-husband are courtiers and socially part of the royal circles whose paths cross all the time. The princes must be the only children in the whole royal group who don't see her." Now, it seems, they'll have countless chances...