A person's life is always very wonderful, and an inadvertent encounter between two strangers will change the trajectory of a lifetime. Just as Guo Xiang met Yang Guo, just like Camilla met Charles.
At a polo field in the summer of 1970, Prince Charles was grooming his foal's mane, which had been wet by the rain, when a woman's voice came from behind: This little fellow is wonderful, sir.
Prince Charles turned and saw the woman who would firmly grasp his fate in the future. She smiled and held out her hand: My name is Camilla, it's nice to meet you!
Fast forward more than 50 years, and Camilla has finally changed from the white moonlight that Charles loves to the future queen hand-picked by Queen Elizabeth.
From a despised third party to Britain's queen-designate, Camilla finally laughed to the end.
However, looking back on Camilla's journey along the way, it can be said that it is full of twists and tribulations.
The love story of Camilla and Prince Charles is full of outrageous scandals and fierce conflicts with secular morality, only because they are separated by a glorious princess: Diana.
Diana, the beautiful girl from the Spencer family, was doomed to the tragic fate of her life from the day she was married to Charles.
On the wedding day, Camilla stood in the crowd and watched her favorite prince marry the bride.
And Charles, while holding Diana's hand, his eyes were still searching the crowd for Camilla's figure.
There was no doubt that if it wasn't Diana who was wearing the wedding dress next to her, but Camilla, Charles would have jumped up happily.
Unfortunately, at that time, Camilla did not meet the conditions for the royal family to choose a concubine, and had already married a human wife, so she had to be a disgraceful third party.
For all this, Diana knew but could not do anything, she could only pretend to ignore Camilla, forced a smile, and completed her wedding ceremony gracefully.
At that time, she still had illusions, thinking that with her tenderness and sweetness, she could always pull her husband's mind back.
Unfortunately, she miscalculated.
Because there was so little contact before marriage, neither she nor Charles realized that the other party and herself were not actually people in the same world.
What Charles liked, she found boring, and what she liked, Charles could not bring up the slightest interest.
As soon as the excitement of the new marriage passed, Charles pounced on Camilla's side.
In the days that followed, Diana did everything in her power to try to save her marriage. In order to please Charles, she tried her best to rehearse ballet, but was unexpectedly disgraced by Charles; in order to make her husband care more about herself, she rolled down the stairs when she was pregnant, but Charles did not ask...
The marriage soon became crumbling.
In early 1993, a recording of Charles and Camilla's explicit call was revealed by the media, and the scale of their chat was staggering: the Crown Prince of England wanted to become a tampon and live in Camilla's crotch.
As soon as the scandal broke, Charles and Camilla were immediately caught up in the whirlpool of public opinion, and the voices of ridicule and insults were endless.
Camilla, in particular, became a third party spurned by everyone for a time, and was regarded as a scorpion woman who destroyed Diana's marriage.
Those days were undoubtedly the most difficult trough in Camilla's life, she did not even dare to go out of the house, she could only hide at home, and her friends procured daily necessities for her to survive.
Her husband, her children, were all implicated and reduced to laughing stocks, unable to lift their heads in front of people.
In the face of overwhelming cynicism, she did not argue, but quietly waited for everything to calm down.
Camilla, what a smart woman.
Time brought Camilla's life back on track little by little, but in 1997, Diana died.
After a brief moment of confusion, the people once again poured out their anger on Camilla, accusing Camilla of insidiousness and turning over all the old things one by one.
Once again, Camilla hid herself in her home and lived like a burrowing animal.
However, public anger subsided faster than expected, and things soon took a turn for the better.
In January 1999, Camilla and Charles were photographed appearing together on the steps of the Ritz Hotel, causing a sensation. At this time, it has only been a year and a half since Diana was in a car accident.
Suddenly, Camilla was living a life of seeing the light of day.
In 2001, Camilla was invited to Buckingham Palace to enjoy a classical concert with members of the royal family, and she wore a pale pink slip dress that day, sitting in the back row of seats next to the Queen.
With the joint efforts of Charles and Camilla, the queen gradually accepted the unpleasant woman, and the public slowly lost interest in paying attention to Camilla.
She was so bland, so bland that the media was lazy to look at her presence.
On April 9, 2005, Charles got his wish to marry Camilla, but he didn't get much in the way. The only fly in the ointment is probably that Camilla only got the title of "Duchess of Cornwall".
There seems to be Diana's foresight here, it is Diana who tried to keep the title of "Princess of Wales" when she was divorced, blocking Camilla's back road and making her a bridesmaid at most.
Diana, however, underestimated the power of time.
On the last day of 2021, Buckingham Palace announced the winner of the Annual Garter Medal, and Camilla's name is prominently listed. You know, this Garter Medal is extremely heavy, and the Queen awarded it to Camilla, which is already a high recognition.
Is Camilla's status still to rise?
Sure enough, in February of this year, Elizabeth II publicly announced that she "sincerely wish Camilla can become queen" and approved Camilla's status as queen-elect.
Some people have analyzed that the reason why the Queen is relieved at this time is probably because in the year after the death of Prince Philip, her state of mind has changed greatly.
She began to realize that life was short, and realized the value of having a close partner in her later years, and she did not want her son and daughter-in-law to still be worried about these nominal things in their later years.
Therefore, Camilla's status jumped again after marrying Charles 17 years later, only for the queen to die and Charles to ascend to the throne, and she was the righteous queen of England.
Speaking of which, after getting married, Charles and Camilla also had news of disagreement, but the ending was not over.
Come to think of it, Charles has already betrayed Diana, and he has already carried a name, and if he dares to abandon Camilla again, it will really be impossible to wash away.
Even for the sake of the throne who did not know when he would be able to sit on the throne, he had to go down hand in hand with Camilla, out Diana and Camilla, and in his life, he would not allow a third woman to appear.
Remember what Charles once said to Diana?
"I don't want to be the only Prince of Wales without a mistress."
Diana couldn't stop him, but Camilla did.
From the third party who everyone spits on to the queen-elect, Camilla endured half her life, and finally tied up Charles and won over Diana.
This seemingly bland woman is really not simple.