Prince Charles: Camilla will be 'key' to reign says expert

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Royal biographer Penny Junor, author of The Duchess: The Untold Story, said the Prince of Wales, 72, is “very grateful” to the Duchess of Cornwall, 73, and that she has done a “remarkable job” as his wife. Ms Junor insisted that Camilla taking the Princess Consort title, rather than Queen Consort, would be “at odds with everything”.

Asked if Charles would like Camilla to be Queen Consort when the time comes, the royal author told Express.co.uk: “My guess is yes.

“I know that Clarence House keep saying no there’s no plans for that at all.

“I think he is very proud of her, he’s very grateful to her and she’s done a remarkable job as his wife.

“And I think really to call her Princess Consort would just be at odds with everything.

“There hasn’t been a Princess Consort before. If she’s his wife, she’s his Queen Consort.”

Ms Junor added that Camilla is a “very good thing” for heir to the throne Charles.

She said: “I think she has given him confidence that he has never had really before.

“And she’s someone who is really interested in him and who really loves him in a way that I don’t think he feels he was loved by anyone else before, with the possible exception of his grandmother.

“So it is a very genuine relationship.”

Ms Junor said Camilla would have been a “great comfort” to her husband following the death of royal patriarch Prince Philip.

And the royal author said the Queen is “very fond” of the Duchess and “recognises how good she is” for Charles.

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Clarence House said Camilla would be known as Princess Consort when Charles becomes King after the couple tied the knot in 2005.

The announcement was made due to upset over the breakdown of Charles’s marriage to Princess Diana and her death in 1997.

Charles and Camilla’s relationship has spanned decades after they first dated in the early 1970s.

Camilla went on to marry Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973, while Charles wed Diana in 1981.

But both marriages ended in divorce.

Camilla and Charles finally became husband and wife in 2005 and they celebrated their 16th wedding anniversary earlier this month.

Clarence House declined to comment.

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