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Modern love: rebranding Charles and Camilla’s adulterous union

Modern love: rebranding Charles and Camilla’s adulterous union

Revisionists keen to honour and embrace a new monarch are reframing the relationship that led to Charles being scorned by the general public.

It had to happen: the reframing of King Charles III and his Queen Consort Camilla’s relationship as the love story of the century.

A piece in the New Statesman was among the first to suggest that Charles and Camilla were as much victims of the system as Charles’ first wife, the ill-fated Diana Spencer. But you know it’s going to be a dominant narrative when that bastion of Britain’s upper classes, Town & Country, is publishing stories that open: “Despite marrying Diana Spencer, Charles never got over his former girlfriend – and against all odds, they got their happy ending 35 years after they first met.”

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Theo ChapmanWeekend Fin editorTheo Chapman edits the Weekend Fin section of AFR Weekend. She writes about science, technology and the arts. Connect with Theo on Twitter. Email Theo at tchapman@afr.com

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