Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Anxious, Parker Bowles, the 51-year-old divorce who helped break up the Prince's marriage to Diana, offered to exit. But Charles encouraged her to stay; Wills was looking forward to an introduction. When the teenager arrived, the threesome spent half an hour sipping tea and soft drinks. After Wills left, Parker Bowles reportedly asked for a vodka tonic to calm her nerves. The encounter went smoothly though, and the young Prince has since sat down with Parker Bowles twice, once alone for tea and later for lunch with his father. If he is amenable, Wills' brother Harry...
Their relationship had become less closeted in the months before Diana's death last August. But in the wake of that tragedy, the woman Diana once deemed "the Rottweiler" again retreated from view. By March, however, tabloids had got wind that Parker Bowles was spending nights at St. James's as well as the Queen's Sandringham estate. More recently, Parker Bowles has begun to emerge on the social scene. Just a few weeks ago, she attended a gathering thrown by Charles for prominent members of the Greek community at his country place, Highgrove. Last month she turned...
...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 the citizenry...
...Should 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...