Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom praised Prince Charles and Camilla for their excellent performance at the cop26 summit this week, and in the past few years the Queen has repeatedly expressed her recognition of camilla's work as a member of the royal family, and expressed her gratitude and gratitude for the support and help she gave charles, but in the past the Queen once had difficulty accepting the daughter-in-law.
Royal biographer Tom Ball revealed that for many years after the divorce of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, the Queen had not approved of Charles and Camilla's love affair, and although his relationship with Camilla had been "put on the table" in 1998 thanks to Charles's efforts, the Queen always refused the marriage and opposed her to attend royal events in any form, formal or informal.
Mr Bauer claimed that after Charles tried to go further with Camilla but was repeatedly restricted, he decided to confront his mother, asking the Queen, who was on holiday at Balmoral, a private estate in Scotland at the time, to "soften" his attitude towards him and Camilla, at least not to stop him from doing so.
But to Charles's surprise, because the Queen drank a few more drinks that night, she was unusually tough after listening to Charles's request, and she angrily told Charles that she would not forgive him for cheating, nor would she forgive Camilla for letting Charles's marriage break up and bring shame to the entire royal family.
In addition, the Queen accused Charles of lying to herself about her relationship with "the evil woman (Camilla)" in the past, and shouted at Charles, "I don't want to have anything to do with her!" ”
According to Mr. Bauer, Charles, stunned after hearing this, rushed out of the queen's room, tearfully calling Camilla about his pain and telling Camilla that the cause of the incident was that his mother had drunk a few more martinis.
At that time, the Queen firmly believed that charles and Camilla's seriously damaged public image could not be repaired unless charles and Camilla broke off contact, and after this dispute, Charles also began to "change strategy", he began to deliberately create opportunities for the Queen and Camilla to get along, trying to make the Queen change her mind about Camilla through contact between the two.
On the 60th birthday of King Constantine of Greece, Charles specially invited the queen and Camilla to attend, but the prince still underestimated the resistance of the queen to Camilla, and even though they all appeared at the celebration, the queen refused Charles's request to introduce Camilla to her.
The turning point occurred in 2002, when the Queen's mother, Queen Elizabeth, passed away, Prince Charles paid tribute to her mother through a television interview and expressed comfort, and the deeply moved Queen compromised to her son for the first time, agreeing that he would take Camilla with her to the queen's funeral, which became a sign that the queen began to accept Camilla.
By 2005, Charles had finally consummated Camilla through a civil wedding, and the Queen refused to attend the wedding despite approving the marriage, allegedly telling her friends privately that she could not and could not attend the wedding because it was contrary to her faith.