Queen Camilla has taken on huge responsibilities within the Royal Family during the last few years. In essence, she’s gone from hated to loved, and when King Charles and Kate Middleton received their respective cancer diagnoses, she and Prince William became the de-facto face of the monarchy.
Queen Camilla and Prince William have a long history together. While the future king and his brother, Prince Harry, most likely didn’t know anything about their father’s affair with Camilla when they were young, they surely know all about it today. The brothers went through a massive tragedy during their childhood when their mother, Princess Diana, passed away.
Diana’s passing left the brothers without a loving mother. Not long after, Camilla entered their lives, and would eventually become their stepmother. For the Queen Consort, the relationship with William and Harry – especially Harry – was complex.
The now-estranged Duke of Sussex recalled his first meeting with Camilla as “awkward and tense.” In Spare, he wrote that William had “long harbored suspicions about the Other Woman.”
In an interview with 60 Minutes, Harry revealed that he and his brother had even asked their father not to marry Camilla. In the end, they changed their minds on her.