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At Badminton this Sunday, Queen Camilla was pictured chatting with fighter Rose Hanbury, who has been accused of having an affair with Prince William.
Revenge of the ladies. Queen Camilla and Rose Hanbury joined forces to counter malicious rumors circulating about the royal family on Sunday, May 12, in Badminton, Gloucestershire. The second, believed to be Prince William’s mistress, joined the wife of Charles III in the finals of the prestigious Badminton Horse Trials, a popular equestrian tournament. And the meeting could not have been warmer. The British aristocrat, who is the Marchioness of Cholmondeley, was photographed all smiles as she chatted with the Queen and British celebrity make-up artist Charlotte Tilbury.
This highly anticipated public appearance by Rose Hanbury is the first since her lawyers denied claims she had an affair with the Prince of Wales. Information or disinformation, these rumors resurfaced earlier this year after Kate Middleton’s mysterious absence. Which finally revealed the reasons for his departure from the media, announcing that he was suffering from cancer. However, Rose Hanbury’s presence at the Badminton Horse Trials this weekend was not ruled out by British tabloids including Everyday El .
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Tabloid targets
The image of Queen Camilla joking around with Rose Hanbury has drawn comparisons as both made headlines in the English tabloids. The first for being Prince Charles’ mistress during his marriage to Diana; the second for a so-called secret affair with Prince William after his marriage to Kate in 2011. A rumor that has been circulating for several years and has never been proven.
If times have changed for Queen Camilla today, like Rose Hanbury, she has long had a bad image in the UK. There was even a time when, considered the spoils of the house, Camilla was arguably the most hated woman in England.
“Housewives are said to have chased him with their baskets in the supermarket,” says reporter Arnaud de la Grange. Figaro At the microphone in London Scandals podcast of Madame Figaro. “He was booed in the theater or the pub. As soon as he went to a public place, people even feared for his life, because such a degree of hysteria was unleashed against his person. (…) The tabloids were extremely harsh towards him. She was described as a temperamental, lazy, poorly dressed woman. Finally, all these highly derogatory and quite sexist expressions.”
Seductive action
And if today we have forgotten the image of the evil mistress that stuck to Camilla for a long time, it is, after all, thanks to the work of the formidable communicator Mark Bolland. Hired by Prince Charles in 1997 at the age of 30, 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. Here’s to more flattering articles about Charles and Camilla.
In 2002, Mark Bolland left Prince Charles’s cabinet and we hardly ever hear about this remarkable strategist. As for Charles and Camilla, they will marry in Windsor on April 9, 2003, and will be crowned King and Queen on May 6, 2023, a few months after Elizabeth II’s death.
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Source: Le Figaro
