Twenty-five years after being widely vilified, she will be crowned alongside King Charles III
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Many kings have had mistresses – not a few bequeathed illegitimate children, too – but very few have married and so made them queen.
King Charles III’s wife, Camilla, will therefore be treading new and potentially sensitive ground as his Queen Consort, as she is well aware. But social attitudes have changed sharply in the 25 years or so since she emerged from behind the shadow of Diana, Princess of Wales, as what the latter described as the third person in her marriage during her 1995 Panorama interview.
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