It has been 25 years since they first went public with their relationship, but it's no secret that King Charles and Queen Camilla were forced to survive painful public hostility and emotional angst in the early days.
In the wake of leaked audio tapes, TV confessions of infidelity and an explosive tell-all book by Diana, Camilla later admitted there were times when she found it all too much. “It was horrid.
It was a deeply unpleasant time and I wouldn’t want to put my worst enemy through it. I couldn’t have survived it without my family,” she said in 2017.
But she refused to crumble, and two years after Diana’s death in 1997, she and Charles made their first public appearance together at the 50th birthday party of Camilla’s sister Annabel Elliot at The Ritz in London.The moment they left the hotel together sparked a media frenzy.
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