The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles And The Love Affair That Rocked The Crown

  • Author: Penny Junor
  • Narrator: Jenny Funnell
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 12:39:31
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Synopsis

In the first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall—the infamous other woman who made the marriage of Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana ""a bit crowded""—esteemed royal biographer Penny Junor tells the unlikely and extraordinary story of the woman reviled as a pariah who, thanks to numerous twists of fate, became the popular princess consort.

Few know the Windsor family as well as veteran royal biographer and journalist Penny Junor. In The Duchess, she casts her insightful, sensitive eye on the intriguing, once widely despised, and little-known Camilla Parker Bowles, revealing in full, for the first time, the remarkable rise of a woman who was the most notorious mistress in the world.

As Camilla’s marriage to Charles approached in 2005, the British public were upset at the prospect that this woman, universally reviled for wrecking the royal marriage, would one day become queen. Sensitive to public opinion, the palace announced that this would never happen; when Charles eventually acceded to the throne, Camilla would be known as the princess consort. Yet a decade later British public sentiment had changed, with a majority believing that Camilla should become queen.

Junor argues that although Camilla played a central role in the darkest days of the modern monarchy—Charles and Diana’s acrimonious and scandalous split—she also played a central role in restoring the royal family’s reputation, especially that of Prince Charles. A woman with no ambition to be a princess, a duchess, or a queen, Camilla simply wanted to be with, and support, the man who has always been the love of her life. Junor contends that their marriage has reinvigorated Charles, allowing him to finally become comfortable as the heir to the British throne.

Chapters

  • 001 The Duchess intro

    Duration: 09s
  • 002 The Duchess Introduction

    Duration: 15min
  • 003 The Duchess Chapter 01

    Duration: 14min
  • 004 The Duchess Chapter 02

    Duration: 23min
  • 005 The Duchess Chapter 03

    Duration: 14min
  • 006 The Duchess Chapter 04

    Duration: 27min
  • 007 The Duchess Chapter 05

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  • 008 The Duchess Chapter 06

    Duration: 12min
  • 009 The Duchess Chapter 07

    Duration: 23min
  • 010 The Duchess Chapter 08

    Duration: 23min
  • 011 The Duchess Chapter 09

    Duration: 17min
  • 012 The Duchess Chapter 10

    Duration: 17min
  • 013 The Duchess Chapter 11

    Duration: 19min
  • 014 The Duchess Chapter 12

    Duration: 16min
  • 015 The Duchess Chapter 13

    Duration: 10min
  • 016 The Duchess Chapter 14

    Duration: 19min
  • 017 The Duchess Chapter 15

    Duration: 11min
  • 018 The Duchess Chapter 16

    Duration: 15min
  • 019 The Duchess Chapter 17

    Duration: 16min
  • 020 The Duchess Chapter 18

    Duration: 30min
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