Queen Camilla's surprisingly normal 'sanity valve' escape from pressure of Royal life
ok.co.ukThe past nine months have seen Queen Camilla truly claim her place as one of the Royal Family’s greatest secret weapons. Her journey from being kept in the shadows to shining front and centre has been one for the history books – but, away from the glaring spotlight, she is first and foremost a wife, mother and a grandmother.
Of all her important duties and responsibilities, it is Camilla’s, 77, role as a grandmother that keeps her anchored to ‘the real world’, a leading royal expert explains. "Camilla has maintained a small part of her life which is hers and and almost hers alone and I rather admire that,” former BBC royal correspondent Jennie Bond exclusively tells OK! "She has her own house where she can put her muddy wellington boots on and a pair of old jeans and and romp around the garden with her grandchildren or just on her own, and just have some peace and calm and quiet.
We have to remember that Camilla agreed to get into this extraordinary goldfish bowl of royal life in her mid fifties - an age where most of us are very established in our lives.
She has a history, she has a family, she has an independent life and has kept some of that, albeit a very small part, to herself.
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