Camilla Parker-Bowles' 'thug move' to Diana after engagement

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Prince Charles and Camilla have been married for 16 years, but their relationship stretches back much further. They first met way back in 1970, and dated before Charles left to serve in the Royal Navy. However, Camilla married Andrew Parker Bowles while he was away and Charles later married Diana, Princess of Wales. Charles and Camilla were never too far away from one another, however, and are believed to have rekindled their romance in 1986, while both still married.

Diana was all too aware and famously confronted Camilla at a party, saying “I know exactly what is going on between you and Charles, I wasn’t born yesterday”.

In December 1992, Charles and Diana’s split was formally confirmed by then-Prime Minister John Major.

Just a few weeks before, a transcript of a tape recording of a telephone conversation between Charles and Camilla was published in the Sunday Mirror.

The tape, which included a rather memorable conversation about sex, later turned out to be snippets of several conversations that had been spliced together.

Diana, according to royal author Penny Junor, was “not well during those years from the late Eighties to the mid-Nineties”.

Ms Junor wrote in the Daily Mail that the Princess “saw conspiracies everywhere” and dropped friends, family and people who worked for her.

Most disturbingly, Ms Junor claimed Diana left messages on people’s answering machines.

Camilla, whose divorce from Mr Parker Bowles was finalised in 1995, had been living separately from her husband for four years.

She received threatening phone calls from Diana during this period, according to Ms Junor.

The royal expert wrote: “Camilla received a number of threatening and unnerving calls from the Princess in the middle of the night.

“Without saying who was calling, she’d typically say: ‘I’ve sent someone to kill you.

“They’re outside in the garden. Look out of the window, can you see them?’”

The future Duchess was not the only one to receive distressing calls.

Her private secretary Patrick Jephson reportedly received a similar message: “We know where you are, and so does your wife [sic].

“I know you’re being disloyal to me.’”

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Charles’ secretary allegedly got the same treatment, too.

Ms Junor claimed that when one of Diana’s “men friends” had tried to cool their relationship, the princess “bombarded” his wife with silent phone calls.

“Many of the people around Diana,” wrote Ms Junor, “walked on eggshells, not knowing what she might do from hour to hour.”

One of Charles’ friends told the royal author that Diana “cultivated” herself being the victim. 

They claimed: “She played every trick, poor thing. I stopped feeling sorry for her because I resented what she was doing.”

Camilla didn’t agree with the way Diana “used” Prince Harry and Prince William “as a weapon” against Charles, nor could she forgive some of the damaging things said about him.

Ms Junor used the example of Diana regularly being photographed hugging her sons, or at a theme park with them, because she had told the press where she would be in advance.

Charles, in stark contrast, was pictured with his boys at formal outings.

Ms Junor wrote: “Ergo, she was the fun parent, he was the cold, unloving father.”

Camilla was “unwavering” in her support for Charles at the time, and took his side on everything.

In Diana’s now-infamous interview with Martin Bashir, watched by a staggering 23 million viewers, she said “there were three of us in this marriage”, referencing Camilla.

The Duchess watched at home with her family. Ms Junor claimed she “laughed at the sheer theatricality of it”.

Charles and Diana’s divorce was finalised in August 1996, and St James’s Palace issued a statement that they had “no intention of remarrying”.

Charles and Camilla’s engagement was announced in 2005, 35 years after they had first met. 

They married in a civil ceremony in April of the same year, with William as the best man.

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