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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-09T15:05:14.000Z",
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  "textContent": "\n\n\nKing Charles and Queen Camilla are today celebrating their 21st wedding anniversary.\n\nThe couple's romantic journey has been far from straightforward or conventional, but 56 years after they first met, the royals are celebrating the special milestone.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTheir romance has long been intertwined with public scrutiny, secrecy and at times controversy.\n\nKing Charles and Camilla first met at a polo match at Windsor Great Park in 1970, though they ultimately tied the knot at a civil ceremony at the Windsor Guildhall, followed by a marriage blessing at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle, on April 9, 2005.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTRENDING\n\nStories\n\nVideos\n\nYour Say\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nDespite the Church relaxing rules on divorcees remarrying three years prior, the then-Prince Charles and his wife opted for a civil service instead.\n\nBoth had been previously married. King Charles’s wedding to Diana, Princess of Wales had been famously dubbed the \"wedding of the century,\" while Camilla had spent 22 years married to Andrew Parker-Bowles.\n\nThe former Prince of Wales and Diana shared 15 years of turbulent marriage, and subsequently divorced in 1996, before her untimely death a year later. It was this relationship that kept Camilla and her future husband's budding romance a secret.\n\nAccording to the King's authorised biography, he had begun the affair with Camilla in 1986.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\nTwo decades later, the King found himself happily married to who many describe as his lifelong love.\n\nFollowing the quiet service, the couple began their honeymoon on the Balmoral estate, a personal favourite of the King's mother, Elizabeth.\n\nLast year saw the royal couple celebrate their China wedding anniversary, in which Camilla shared her secrets for a happy marriage with the monarch.\n\n\"Well, I suppose it's just sort of friendship, really. Laughing at the same things, getting on with life,\" she explained.\n\n### LATEST ROYAL NEWS\n\n\n\n\n  * Dominic Cummings 'warned Boris Johnson he could kill the Queen by infecting her with coronavirus'\n  * New details emerge on Prince Harry's feud with Queen Elizabeth II's close ally\n  * Queen Elizabeth II's 'greatest challenge' revealed by royal biographer\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"I suppose doing this [on a royal tour] takes up most of the time.\"\n\nAt the time, the couple were in the middle of a busy engagement in Italy.\n\n\"We are always going in different directions, like ships that pass in the night really,\" Camilla noted. \"We whizz past each other. In fact we have got a bit of a catch-up this afternoon!\"\n\nShe revealed that, despite their esteemed positions as the Head of State, they still find time to buy each other meaningful gifts.\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n\"Well, I have got something. Because it's China,\" Camilla told reporters in Italy.\n\n\"[But] we are going to do that when we get back. We are going to save that. Otherwise you can't really, you have to rush it.\n\n\"You don't have time to say anything. I think we might dig into our pockets and pull something out at the end of the day.\"\n\n###\n\n\n\n\n**Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter**",
  "title": "King Charles and Queen Camilla quietly celebrating special milestone"
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