Queen Camilla Under Fire for Removing Princess Diana’s Pictures from the Royal House

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded…” Those bombshell words from Diana, Princess of Wales were the confirmation, that we didn’t really need, of the affair between Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles that overshadowed the marriage of Charles and Diana, The Prince and Princess of Wales.

It’s 26 years since that interview and 25 years since Diana, Princess of Wales died alongside Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul in a high-speed car crash in Paris. In the aftermath of Diana’s death, the prospect of Charles ascending to the throne with Camilla by his side was nothing but a pipe dream.
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Popularity of the Royal Family was at an all-time low. At the time of Diana’s death, The Queen was at Balmoral, and it was five days before The Queen and Prince Philip returned to London to address the outpouring of grief that had engulfed the nation. The masses weren’t pleased. A lot of people felt that it was a continuation of the treatment of Diana, Princess of Wales, the disregard for her and her wellbeing that ultimately led to her death.
In 1997, polls conducted for BBC suggested that the British public were not keen on Charles becoming King if he married Camilla, with two-thirds of people polled said to be against this idea(opens in a new tab). Eighty-six per cent of those polled also thought that Camilla shouldn’t be Queen. Only 43% of the public thought that Charles and Camilla should get married at all, with these ratings staying the same in the years after Diana’s death, right up unto the time the engagement of Charles and Camilla was announced in February 2005.