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Why Sarah Ferguson Isn't Attending King Charles' Coronation
Tom Parker Bowles has shared royally uncommon words connected his mother Queen Camilla's matrimony to King Charles III.
Leading up to the monarch and his wife's coronation, the 48-year-old, whose begetter is Camilla's ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles, shared his thoughts connected the couple's relationship.
"I don't attraction what anyone says. This wasn't immoderate benignant of extremity game," Tom said connected the April 20 occurrence of The News Agents. "She joined the idiosyncratic she loved and this is what happened."
Camilla and Charles' head-turning romance initially stirred controversy. The 2 met successful 1970 and kept a close relationship over the years. That choky transportation remained even erstwhile Charles was married to Princess Diana, who helium welcomed sons Prince William and Prince Harry with successful 1982 and 1984, respectively.
Two years earlier officially divorcing Diana successful 1996, Charles admitted successful a 1994 interrogation with British journalist Jonathan Dimbleby that helium remained faithful to the Princess of Wales "until it became wide that the matrimony had irretrievably breached down."
In 1995, 2 years earlier her death, Diana said successful a BBC Panorama interrogation that she excessively had had an affair, and that with respect to herself, Charles and Camilla, "There were 3 of america successful this marriage, truthful it was a spot crowded."
Also successful 1995, Camilla divorced Tom's father.
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Fast guardant years later, and Harry wrote successful his 2023 memoir Spare that helium and his member William were more than against their begetter marrying Camilla.
"Despite Willy and I urging him not to, Pas was going ahead," Harry wrote. "We pumped his hand, wished him well. No hard feelings. We recognized that helium was yet going to beryllium with the pistillate helium loved, the pistillate he'd ever loved, the pistillate Fate might've intended for him successful the archetypal place. Whatever bitterness oregon sorrow we felt implicit the closing of different loop successful Mummy's story, we understood that it was beside the point."
NBC News reached retired to Kensington Palace, Buckingham Palace and a rep for Prince Harry. All person declined to comment.
Following the September 2022 decease of Queen Elizabeth II, Camila and Charles' coronation is set to instrumentality spot May 6. During the service, Charles volition beryllium formally crowned alongside Camilla.
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As for if Harry volition beryllium successful attendance? A rep for Harry and his woman Meghan Markle told E! News April 12 that Harry volition beryllium there to spot his begetter crowned. Meanwhile, Meghan volition stay in California with kids Archie Harrison, 3, and Lilibet Diana, 22 months.
At the time, Buckingham Palace also confirmed Harry's attendance for the coronation.
During Tom's quality connected the April 20 occurrence of The News Agents podcast, erstwhile asked if determination was immoderate "panic" surrounding the taxable of Harry and Meghan's attendance, helium noted, "That has thing to bash with maine astatine all."
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