A Greater Love: Prince Charles's Twenty-Year Affair With Camilla Parker Bowles (Hardcover)

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From Publishers Weekly

Wilson, another of the ubiquitous Fleet Street journalists, here retells the all too familiar Charles and Di story. By including a few more comments than usual about Camilla Parker Bowles, he seeks to convince readers that this is a different tale. It isn't. Bowles and her husband, Andrew, have stoically plodded on through endless speculation and media stakeouts. She has kept her own counsel, and no matter how Wilson tries to stretch every reference to the "other woman" in Prince Charles's life, she retains a kind of tweedy anonymity that is hard not to admire. Wilson does trot out a good deal of circumstantial evidence to document a long-standing relationship, but when he recounts a telephone conversation that the prince had while in the bath, one does question how he knows about it. No matter. The facts speak for themselves: Diana and Charles are separated, Charles is still friendly with Camilla Parker Bowles, and this scenario would be banal if his last name weren't Windsor. Photos not seen by PW.
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From Booklist

Another book about the disastrous Wales marriage, but this one's different. It's primarily about the "other woman," Camilla Parker Bowles, with whom Prince Charles has had a liaison for two decades, continuing the relationship even after his marriage to Lady Diana Spencer. Wilson, a British journalist and avid watcher of the royal family, insists that in Camilla the prince found the love of his life and that his marriage to Diana was simply a dynastic gesture, empty of real feeling. For Diana, the marriage meant eventual advancement to the highest office a woman could achieve in Britain, that of queen consort. Wilson's express purpose is not to gossip, but to spread understanding of Charles' situation; to that end, he documents with compassion the history of the prince's relationship with Camilla. When they met, neither was married. But while she was well born, she wasn't well born enough to be queen (although her great-grandmother was Mrs. Alice Keppel, the famous mistress of Charles' great-great-grandfather, King Edward VII). Consequently, Camilla married someone else. Charles, of course, looked elsewhere, too, among the higher echelons of British society, ultimately landing his roving eye on Lady Di. Charles' and Camilla's individual marriages, though, did not interfere with their affair. In light of the fact that the Wales marriage is a bust, Wilson discusses the constitutional implications of Charles' future with Camilla. A responsible account certain to be widely read. Brad Hooper

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 223 pages
• Publisher: William Morrow & Co (December 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 068813808X
• ISBN-13: 978-0688138080
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,652,826 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Dull, December 29, 2005

By	Mozart'sConstanze (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

Here we go again. The so called 'great love story' of an imperious, immature man who has an outstanding sense of entitlement and his future Subjects better like it or lump it. And his immoral companion who wears the title of Mistress like a badge-it seems to run in her family. Adultery for some I suppose is something to be proud of and trumpeted before all the world. C & C deserve each other. I hope they are sent off into Royal exile if Her Majesty should pre-decease these two boring, old sinners. Bring on King William V!
This book is a waste of time and money. No stars even if I was obliged by the template to give it at least one.