The Duchess: Camilla Parker Bowles and the Love Affair That Rocked the Crown

by Penny Junor

This is a semi-authorised biography of Prince Charles’ queen, published a few years before his succession.  Camilla’s family background is explored and then how Charles and Camilla met and their on-off relationship in the 1970s along with the resumption of their friendship when Charles’ marriage imploded in the 1980s. Camilla has been much reviled, but this books convincingly suggests that all of that was completely unfair.  She comes across as a fun, loyal, intelligent and generous woman.