000			03015nam a22003377i 4500
999			_c175828 _d175828
005			20200105145317.0
008			200105t20182018nyuo|||e |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780062471116 _cRM89.90 _qpaperback
040			_aPPAK _beng _cPPAK _erda
082	0	4	_223 _a941.085092
090	0	0	_a941.085092 _bJUN _dG
100	1		_aJunor, Penny, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aTHE DUCHESS : _bCamilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown / _cPENNY JUNOR
250			_aFIRST HARPER PAPERBACKS EDITION
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bHARPER, _c2019
264		4	_c©2018
300			_axxi, 295 pages : _bphotographs (some color) ; _c23 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
500			_aIncludes index
504			_aBibliography : pages 275-276.
520			_a The first in-depth biography of Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, and her remarkable transformation from pariah to popular royal consort. Thoroughly well-written, this is a believable portrait of a woman who did not seek publicity or a royal role but instead to support the love of her life, Prince Charles. -- Library Journal (starred review) Few know the Windsor family as well as veteran royal biographer and journalist Penny Junor. In The Duchess, she casts her insightful, sensitive eye on the intriguing, once widely despised, and little-known Camilla Parker Bowles, revealing in full, for the first time, the remarkable rise of a woman who was the most notorious mistress in the world, famously blamed by Diana for wrecking her marriage to Charles. In marrying the Prince of Wales in 2005, this hitherto private and self-effacing mother of two became the second most senior female member of the British Royal Family. She made him laugh again; made him a happier, more confident man, who with her by his side, will go on to be a successful and popular king. But in so doing she also made sacrifices. She gave up the freedom she had always taken for granted. She signed up to a future of public engagements, ceremonies, receptions, overseas tours, and charitable work that would exhaust women half her age. Junor argues that although Camilla played a central role in the darkest days of the modern monarchy--Charles and Diana's acrimonious and scandalous split--she will one day be seen as the woman who shored up the British monarchy. A woman with no ambition to be a princess, a duchess, or a queen, Camilla simply wanted to be with, and support, the man who has always been the love of her life. Junor contends that their marriage has allowed Charles finally to become comfortable as the heir to the British throne.
600	0	0	_aCamilla, _cDuchess of Cornwall, _d1947-
600	0	0	_aCamilla, _cDuchess of Cornwall, _d1947- _xMarriage
600	0	0	_aCharles, _cPrince of Wales, _d1948-
650	1	0	_aNobility _zGreat Britain _vBiography
650	2	0	_aRoyal couples _zGreat Britain _vBiography
650	2	0	_aMistresses _zGreat Britain _vBiography
942			_2ddc _cB