How finishing school, heartbreak and ‘Camillagate’ prepared the Queen Consort for the throne

msn.com:

Queen Consort was ten, she stated proudly in the classroom of Queen’s Gate School, South Kensington, ‘My great-grandmother (Alice Keppel) was the lover of the king.

We’re practically royalty. ’ She was not to know, of course, that she too would become the mistress of King Charles – although she went one better by eventually marrying him.

Camilla Shand was born on 17 July 1947. The obstetrician who delivered her at King’s College Hospital was Sir William Gilliatt who, by extraordinary coincidence, delivered Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace 16 months later.

Unlike Charles, who was a lonely, rather tense child and had only minimum contact with his parents, the Queen Consort’s early family life was rich, happy and stable.