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00:00 King Charles' relationship with Queen Elizabeth was nearly destroyed by Camilla affair.

00:04 Author Charles and his wife Queen Camilla were crowned on May 6 at London's Westminster Abbey.

00:09 It's been said that Queen Elizabeth II developed a close-knit bond with her hair during the last decade of her life,

00:15 but getting there wasn't easy.

00:16 British author Andrew Morton told Fox News Digital that at one point, Britain's longest-reigning monarch

00:22 and the now King Charles A.E. were at odds over his true love, Camilla Parker Bowles.

00:26 "There was considerable animus between the Houses of the Queen and Prince Charles over Camilla," he explained.

00:32 "It was there before Princess Diana died, and certainly after Diana died.

00:35 The Queen and her advisors, her courtiers, her private secretary,

00:39 they all believed that Prince Charles should give up Camilla," he said.

00:42 "He could love her, but he needed to leave her.

00:44 And that's because they felt she was damaging to the monarchy, which she was.

00:48 There's no question about that."

00:49 The paperback version of Morton's latest book, The Queen, Her Life, was published on September 5 with a new epilogue.

00:56 It takes an in-depth look at the late Queen's life and legacy.

00:59 The best-selling author, known for being Princess Diana's biographer,

01:02 has previously written books on other members of the British royal family,

01:06 including Meghan Markle and Princess Margaret.

01:09 Morton claimed that the Queen once had a strained relationship with her son over his mistress,

01:13 which required someone to serve as mediator.

01:15 The presence of Camilla in Charles' life did cause a rift between the Queen and her eldest son,

01:20 one which took several years to patch up.

01:22 Morton explained, "And it wasn't until the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey, intervened and said,

01:27 'Look, I've spoken to Camilla on numerous occasions.

01:30 She's dedicated and loving, and her feelings for Charles are not going away.'

01:34 And what's the Queen's job?

01:35 It is to preserve the monarchy."

01:37 Morton continued, "She sees this woman who is damaging the monarchy remaining in place.

01:41 So it took a long time for that to be resolved."

01:44 A spokesperson for Buckingham Palace didn't immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.

01:49 A rep previously told Fox News Digital, "We don't comment on such books."

01:53 Charles met Camilla in 1970 through mutual friend Lucia Santa Cruz.

01:57 According to reports, Charles was instantly smitten.

02:00 Despite a blossoming romance, Charles joined the Navy in 1971.

02:04 It's also noted that Camilla didn't meet royal prerequisites for marrying in here to the throne.

02:09 The couple likely believed they didn't have a future together.

02:12 While Charles was serving in the Navy, Camilla married Andrew Parker Bowles,

02:15 an ex-boyfriend of Charles' younger sister Princess Anne, in 1973.

02:20 According to reports, a devastated Charles tried to stop Camilla from marrying Parker Bowles,

02:25 but the pair remained friends.

02:26 Author Penny Drewer previously alleged in her book, "The Duchess,"

02:29 the untold story that Charles and Camilla began an affair around 1978 or 1979

02:35 and Parker Bowles was allegedly aware.

02:37 As the pair stayed close, Charles began courting Lady Diana Spencer in 1980.

02:42 Charles and Diana married in 1981.

02:45 Charles and Camilla reportedly began having another affair in 1986.

02:49 In 1992, Charles and Diana announced their separation.

02:53 During an ITV interview in 1994, Charles admitted to cheating on Diana.

02:57 A year later, Camilla and her spouse called it quits,

03:00 announcing in a statement they had lived apart for years.

03:03 Charles and Diana's divorce was finalized in 1996.

03:06 A year later, the Princess of Wales died in a car crash at age 36.

03:10 While Charles and Camilla made their first public appearance in 1999,

03:14 it would be a year later when the Queen acknowledged the relationship.

03:17 Charles and Camilla married in 2005.

03:20 The Queen didn't attend the civil ceremony.

03:22 In February 2022, the Queen said in a statement that Camilla's title would be Queen Consort when Charles became king.

03:28 "When in the fullness of time my son Charles becomes king,

03:31 I know you will give him and his wife Camilla the same support that you have given me,

03:36 and it is my sincere wish that, when that time comes,

03:38 Camilla will be known as Queen Consort as she continues her own loyal service,"

03:42 said the Queen when she marked the 70th anniversary of her rule.

03:46 Following the announcement, Charles said he and Camilla were "deeply conscious of the honor."

03:50 "As we have sought together to serve and support Her Majesty and the people of our communities,

03:54 my darling wife has been my own steadfast support throughout," he said.

03:58 The Queen died in September 2022 at age 96.

04:01 Days before the couple's coronation in May of this year,

04:04 Charles issued a royal warrant to change his wife's title to Queen.

04:08 She is now known as Queen Camilla.

04:09 Morton said Diana would have fainted at the idea of Camilla becoming queen.

04:14 She also didn't believe her ex was fit to be king.

04:16 "She was quite specific with me when I did her book," Morton explained.

04:20 "She said that Prince Charles should go live in Tuscany, buy a farm there, paint,

04:23 do all the things that he loves doing, and go there, she said to me,

04:27 with his lady, meaning Camilla, and for the crown to jump a generation.

04:31 She wanted William to take over at an earlier age and for her to guide him through this new position," Morton continued.

04:37 "That was her ambition, and that ambition was thwarted both by her death,

04:41 but also by circumstances, so her dream never remotely came true.

04:44 It was quite the opposite."

04:46 Morton also said Diana was "shocked and hurt" by Charles' reaction to the birth of their second child, Prince Harry.

04:52 According to Diana, Charles was disappointed that Harry wasn't the daughter he longed for and that his son had red hair.

04:58 Diana recalled the comments in the secret tapes she recorded for Morton while he wrote her biography.

05:03 Morton said Charles expressed remorse for those comments in his own way.

05:06 "He always used to talk about Harry as 'my darling boy,'" Morton explained.

05:10 "He gave both boys tremendous latitude as a father,

05:13 and he expected the courtiers to discipline his boys, who were both pre-boisterous.

05:18 He was the kind of loving father who listened to the opera on his headphones and let somebody else say,

05:22 'You must do this, you must do that.'

05:24 So he was kind of an indulgent father, a loving one, but also quite a distant one."

05:29 Harry in his book spare talks about how when his father broke the news of his mother's death,

05:33 "there were no hugs or anything," Morton noted.

05:36 So he wasn't an especially touchy-feely modern-day father, but neither was the Queen nor his father, Prince Philip.

05:42 Harry wasn't the first royal in the House of Windsor to call out an emotionally cold parent.

05:46 In 1994, Charles cooperated in a biography written by Jonathan Dimbleby,

05:51 where he described his mother as a distant figure during his childhood.

05:54 His father, Prince Philip, was depicted as harsh and domineering, even reducing his eldest son to tears at times.

06:00 The former Princess Elizabeth was crowned in 1953 at age 27.

06:04 Charles was four years old at the time.

06:06 Both the Queen and Prince Philip were very disappointed in Charles for authorizing the book in the first place.

06:11 Morton explained, "It was released when they were in Russia on their first ever visit by a reigning sovereign to the communist country.

06:18 So the release of the book overshadowed that, and that's the one thing you never do.

06:22 You never overshadow somebody else's foreign tour because these tours take thousands of man-hours to organize.

06:28 So they were upset about that.

06:29 Philip was asked, 'Were you cold and distant parents?'

06:32 Morton shared, and he said, 'We did our best.'

06:34 And it's interesting that Princess Anne, Prince, Andrew, and Prince Edward as a triumvirate approached Charles and said,

06:41 'Your description of our mother and father is not our remembrance.'

06:44 Philip, Gritton's longest reigning consort, passed away in 2021 at age 99.

06:50 Charles ascended to the throne upon the Queen's death with Camilla by his side.

06:54 When you look at the way Charles mourned his mother, it was deep, heartfelt, and very loving.

06:58 Morton reflected, 'It's not like she was some distant royal matriarch.

07:02 She was very much his mother, and he very much missed her.'

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