Andrew Parker Bowles was unfaithful throughout his relationship with Queen Camilla. However, she kept calm and carried on. “[It was a] very English marriage. You just bite the bullet and keep going,” a friend told The Times. “Camilla was terribly loyal. He would have the ladies, and she would have a nice joint of beef on the table.” However, Camilla’s dalliance with King Charles III, not Andrew’s roving eye, ultimately ended their romance.
They gave it their best go, though. They stuck together through the “Camillagate” tape scandal and the publication of “Diana: Her True Story.” Friends claimed Andrew wasn’t phased by Camilla’s affair with Charles. Still, it all became too much when Charles confessed to adultery in a 1994 interview with David Dimbleby. Andrew filed for divorce a year later.
Camilla and Andrew’s 22-year marriage was over. Still, there were no hard feelings. In fact, the couple maintained a remarkably close relationship. So close that Andrew attended Charles and Camilla’s wedding in April 2005. Tina Brown claims in her book “The Palace Papers” that Andrew was positively giddy at his ex-wife’s nuptials. “He was behaving like the mother of the bride,” a guest told the author. In return, Camilla was there for her former husband at the funeral of his second wife, Rosemary Parker Bowles, who died of cancer in January 2010. The Daily Mail reported that “[Camilla] was greeted with a fond kiss by Andrew as she left at a memorial service.”
