LONDON (AP) — The heir to the British throne and his consort, Camilla, are celebrating 10 years of marriage — a decade in which Camilla’s public image has gone from aristocratic home-wrecker to admired addition to the royal family.
Prince Charles, 66, and 67-year-old Camilla marked Thursday’s anniversary privately at the royals’ Balmoral estate in Scotland.
They married on April 9, 2005, in a modest town-hall ceremony lacking the pageantry of Charles’ 1981 wedding to Princess Diana.
In 2005, many Britons were cool to a woman some blamed for the failure of Charles and Diana’s marriage. But over the years, many Britons came to see Camilla as a breath of fresh air in the sometimes stuffy royal family. A lover of dogs, horses, gardening and the British countryside, she has a hearty laugh and a self-deprecating streak, and is a busy charity campaigner for causes including literacy and osteoporosis, which afflicted both her mother and her grandmother.
