Camilla Parker Bowles ‘Broke’ Prince Charles' Heart By Doing This In 1973

Camilla Parker Bowles reportedly broke Prince Charles’ heart when she made an important life decision in 1973.

At that time, the Duchess of Cornwall decided to wed Andrew Parker Bowles while the future king is embarking on his duties with the Royal Navy.

Penny Junor, a royal biographer, wrote in the book “The Duchess: The Untold Story” that Prince Charles tried his best to change Camilla’s mind. However, his efforts fell on deaf ears because Camilla still married Bowles.

As a way to cope with the hurt that he was feeling, Prince Charles wrote anguished letters to his closest friends.

“It seemed to him particularly cruel, he wrote in one letter, that after ‘such a blissful, peaceful, and mutually happy relationship,’ fate had decreed that it should last a mere six months. He now had no one to go back to in England,” Junor said.

One week before Camilla and Bowles’ wedding, Prince Charles exerted one last effort to try to convince his now wife to not wed Bowles, but she refused.

“Nevertheless, the wedding went ahead. Her mother, Rosalind, was not entirely happy about it — she didn’t think Andrew treated her daughter very well — but Camilla was determined,” Junor revealed.

Several years later, Prince Charles and Camilla reignited their romance while they were still married to their respective spouses. Prince Charles tied the knot with Princess Diana in 1981, but they decided to go their separate ways in 1992.

Six years later, Prince Charles and Princess Diana finalized their divorce. Other than obvious differences, the royal couple’s marriage did not last because the late Princess of Wales found out about Prince Charles and Camilla’s affair very early on.

During her interview with Martin Bashir for Panorama, Princess Diana declared that there were three of them in her marriage to Prince Charles.

Several years after Prince Charles’ divorce from his sons’ mother, he decided to tie the knot with Camilla in a civil ceremony in 2005. The Duke and Duchess of Cornwall have stayed together since then.

Prince Charles and Camilla were last seen in public during a 12-day tour of the Caribbean last month.