We've got the beverage connected wherefore Queen Camilla's ex Andrew Parker Bowles turned up to ticker his erstwhile bride and her hubby King Charles III officially beryllium crowned arsenic Britain's caller monarchs.
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Dare we telephone Queen Camilla the, uh, queen of conscious uncoupling? Because among the 2,200 astatine her and hubby King Charles III's May 6 coronation astatine London's Westminster Abbey was her erstwhile spouse, Andrew Parker Bowles.
The pair—who were wed from 1973 to 1995 and stock lad Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes—have remained adjacent successful the decades since their divided paved the mode for Camilla, 75, to reunite with the aboriginal monarch, 74. The retired British service serviceman (who besides concisely dated Charles' sister Princess Anne) even attended Charles and Camilla's 2005 wedding with wife Rosemary Parker Bowles.
"Everybody loves Andrew. He's a existent charmer," Camilla's friend, the Marchioness of Lansdowne, precocious told The Times of the erstwhile spouses' adjacent relationship. "Andrew volition ringing her up and archer her erstwhile she's got thing incorrect and she'll ringing him up and accidental erstwhile he's misbehaving. Through adversity, they've kept a truly bully household ethic. It helps with their children and grandchildren."
In fact, the exes' teenage grandsons (they besides stock 2 granddaughters) scored a large relation successful the coronation. Master Gus and Master Louis Lopes and Master Freddy Parker Bowles joined Camilla's great-nephew Master Arthur Elliot arsenic her pages of honor, tasked with carrying the bid of the recently crowned queen's robes.
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Keep speechmaking to spot each different notable sanction who turned up astatine the May 6 event.