King Charles was left completely heartbroken by a letter he received from Camilla in the very early days of their romance, it has been revealed.
Prior to their respective first marriages, Charles and Camilla were in a relationship with the then-Prince said to be completely smitten with the debutante. But the couple were forced to take a break when 24-year-old Charles went on a tour with the Royal Navy. And during his time away he received a ‘cruel’ letter from Camilla.
She wrote to Charles to tell him that she had accepted a wedding proposal from Andrew Parker Bowles, a Guards officer who had been her on-off boyfriend since the late 1960s. Royal author Penny Junor wrote about the letter in her book about Camilla, The Duchess: The Untold Story , revealing: “She wrote to Charles herself to tell him. It broke his heart.”
Penny also stated that the devastated prince shared his heartbreak to his friends and family. “He fired off anguished letters to his nearest and dearest,” she wrote. “It seemed to him particularly ‘cruel’, he wrote in one letter, that after ‘such a blissful, peaceful and mutually happy relationship‘s fate had decreed that it should only last a mere six months.”
