Marchioness Rose Hanbury, makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury and Queen Camilla. (Badminton, May 12, 2024.) Getty Images
This Sunday at Badminton, Queen Camilla was photographed in conversation with the Marchioness Rose Hanbury, who is accused of having had an adulterous affair with Prince William.
Revenge of the ladies. On Sunday May 12 in Badminton, Gloustershire, Queen Camilla and Rose Hanbury joined forces to counter malicious rumors circulating about the royal family. The second, said to have been the mistress of Prince William, joined the wife of Charles III in the final of the prestigious Badminton Horse Trials, a renowned equestrian tournament. And the meeting could not have been warmer. Coming in her capacity as Marchioness of Cholmondeley, the British aristocrat was photographed all smiles in full conversation with the Queen and star British makeup artist Charlotte Tilbury.
Highly anticipated, this public appearance is Rose Hanbury’s first since her lawyers took the stand to refute allegations that she had an adulterous affair with the Prince of Wales. Info or misinformation, these rumors resurfaced at the beginning of the year after the mysterious absence of Kate Middleton. Which finally revealed the reasons for its media withdrawal by announcing that it was suffering from cancer. That being said, the presence of Rose Hanbury at the Badminton Horse Trials this weekend did not fail to be commented on by the British tabloids, whose Daily Mail .
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Tabloid targets
The image of Queen Camilla joking with Rose Hanbury invites comparisons since both of them made headlines in the English tabloids. The first for having been the mistress of Prince Charles during his marriage to Diana; the second for his so-called secret romance with Prince William after his marriage to Kate in 2011. A rumor that has been circulating for several years across the Channel and has never been proven.
If times have changed for Queen Camilla today, like Rose Hanbury, she has long enjoyed a bad image in the United Kingdom. There was even a time when, considered a homewrecker, Camilla was undoubtedly the most hated woman in England.
“It is said that housewives chased her with their shopping cart at the supermarket,” said Arnaud de la Grange, correspondent for Figaro in London at the microphone of Scandals the podcast Madame Figaro. “She was booed at the theater or the pub. As soon as she went to a public place, people even feared for her life because there was such a level of hysteria unleashed against her person. (…) The tabloids were extremely harsh on her. She was described as a temperamental, lazy, poorly dressed woman. Finally, all these very derogatory and quite sexist remarks.”
Seduction operation
And if we have today forgotten the image of the evil mistress, which stuck to Camilla’s skin for a long time, it is ultimately thanks to the work of the formidable communicator Mark Bolland. Hired at the age of 30 in 1997 by Prince Charles, the latter used all means to restore the image of Charles and Camilla. It is said, for example, that he did not hesitate to provide the tabloids with compromising information about other members of the royal family. This, in order to obtain more flattering articles on Charles and Camilla.
In 2002, Mark Bolland ended up leaving Prince Charles’s cabinet and we almost never heard from this outstanding strategist again. As for Charles and Camilla, they will get married in Windsor on April 9, 2003 and will be crowned king and queen on May 6, 2023, a few months after the death of Elizabeth II.
2024-05-14 16:13:22
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