But the matriarch, several martinis deep, wasn’t having it.
“To Charles’ surprise she replied forcefully: she would not condone his adultery, nor forgive Camilla for not leaving Charles alone to allow his marriage to recover,” Bower wrote. “She vented her anger that he had lied about his relationship with what he called, ‘That wicked woman,’ and added, ‘I want nothing to do with her.'”
The pair’s uphill battle only grew steeper after Diana was killed in a 1997 car crash. Immediately after learning of his ex-wife’s death, Charles worried about the fallout. Detailed Bower, “Charles was chanting, ‘They’re all going to blame me, aren’t they? The world’s going to go completely mad.'”
Enraged, really.
For years, as he and Camilla tried to rebuild their relationship, the duo faced overwhelming criticism. According to Wilson, loyal supporters of the late People’s Princess even went so far as to throw bread rolls at Camilla as she browsed a supermarket.
“It was horrid,” Camilla recalled in a 2017 interview with The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine. “It was a deeply unpleasant time and I wouldn’t want to put my worst enemy through it.”