I don't even know why I care as much as I do about Charles and Camilla's love for one another. The woman has rubbed me the wrong way for a long time. I think about how she continued to be a strong presence in Charles's life after he married Diana....and I think about how Diana must have felt. Never said Diana was a saint, but she certainly didn't deserve the crap she got. If an ex girlfriend of my husbands interfered in his marriage to me, well, let's just say I'd be pretty upset.
"Never said Diana was a saint, but she certainly didn't deserve the crap she got."
Diana had her own affairs, remember James Hewitt? Amongst others, one of whom was a married man, whom she stalked by calling him hundreds of times a day until he brought it out in the public causing her to finally stop. Charles didn't go back to Camilla until he knew just how mentally unstable Diana was. She was what's called a "delicate cutter" in shrink terminology. She would make cuts with a knife or razor up and down her arms. My best friend used to work on a mental ward at the University of Chicago, and told me all about the delicate cutters she would deal with in the course of her duties as an art therapist. They are sort of borderline schizophrenic in some cases. Schizoid. Diana threw herself down a staircase in a pique against Charles, while pregnant, and landed at the bottom at his feet, much to his horror. Diana connived and made alliances and in some senses tried to bring down the House of Windsor in her petulant attempts to get back at Charles. Destroying the whole royal family was fine with her as long as she could shaft Charles. Charles went back to Camilla because he realized Diana was a total nutcake. I haven't even brought up her bulimia, her colonics (enemas to cleanse her colon). Just what you want to be married to, a woman who spends half her life with her head in a toilet bowl. Diana had a lonely childhood and was basically ignored, and her mother left her father to marry another man. It's sad, but Diana was screwed up long before she met Charles because of her childhood experiences. Plus Diana's mother was a real oddball in her own right. Diana probably suffered from genetic peculiarities right from the onset.
Meanwhile, Camilla and Charles share many interests. She is an accomplished horsewoman, is intelligent, likes to have fun, is a good hostess for him to be with at parties, and the queen actually likes her I'm sure better than she ever did Diana. Camilla has both feet on the ground. Diana was up in the air hanging on for dear life to a balloon. Diana and Charles had nothing in common.
Remember also, that Charles was basically being forced by family pressure and royal obligations to find a young fertile woman to wed to produce heirs for the throne. He couldn't marry Camilla as she was first married to another man, and then when they split, was a divorced woman. I believe Charles actually cared for Diana for the first 3-4 years, until all her strange behaviors manifested themselves more and more. I'm happy for Charles and Camilla. She isn't a beauty like Diana, but she's not nuts either, she is a good companion for him and she seems motherly and probably brings him great comfort. So there, that's my two cents worth.