28 Facts About Camilla Parker-Bowles

1. Camilla Parker-Bowles has always had soft spot for animals and their welfare.

2. Camilla Parker-Bowles is a distant relative of famous singers Celine Dion and Madonna.

3. Camilla Parker-Bowles started hunting with her grandfather and father at an early age.

4. Camilla Parker-Bowles is close to her only sister Annabelle who helped her through the difficult years when the press were pursuing her and making it difficult for her to see Prince Charles.

5. Camilla Parker-Bowles has being awarded for her work involved involving osteoporosis.

6. Camilla Parker-Bowles lost her only brother, the famous travel writer, and conservationist, Mark Shand when he died in New York City in 2014.

7. Camilla Parker-Bowles was known for her love of the outdoors, horses and hunting as well as her lively, exuberant personality.

8. Camilla Parker-Bowles had dated Andrew Parker Bowles in the late 1960s.

9. Camilla Parker-Bowles was Charles's first love, and when his marriage to Diana, Princess of Wales, failed, she was his mistress.

10. Camilla Parker-Bowles married the cavalry officer Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973; they had two children, Thomas and Laura.

11. Camilla Parker-Bowles has always loved outdoor pursuits like riding and hunting, as does Charles, and gardening is one of her passions.

12. Camilla Parker-Bowles has two children, 41-year old Laura and 44-year-old Tom from her marriage to Andrew Parker Bowles.

13. Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles have not bothered to lower themsevles to commenting on this nonsense.

14. Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles will soon reunite for a joint engagement when they visit Cuba.

15. Camilla Parker-Bowles went to her engagement by herself because her husband had his own royal duty on Thursday.

16. Camilla Parker-Bowles was welcomed into the premises by the members of St John's Angell Town Church.

17. In 2004, Camilla Parker-Bowles accompanied Charles on almost all of his official events, including a high-profile visit together to the annual highland games in Scotland.

18. Camilla Parker-Bowles told Dimbleby in the interview, "Mrs Parker Bowles is a great friend of mine.

19. On 25 March 1965, Camilla Parker-Bowles was a debutante in London, one of 311 that year.

20. Camilla Parker-Bowles left Queen's Gate with one O-level in 1964; her parents did not make her stay long enough for A-levels.

21. At the age of five, Camilla Parker-Bowles was sent to Dumbrells, a co-educational school in Ditchling village.

22. Camilla Parker-Bowles is often described as having had an "Enid Blyton sort of Childhood".

23. Camilla Parker-Bowles was in a relationship with the Prince of Wales before, during and after their previous marriages.

24. In 1973, Camilla Parker-Bowles married British Army officer Andrew Parker Bowles, with whom she has two children.

25. Camilla Parker-Bowles is the eldest child of Major Bruce Shand and his wife Rosalind Cubitt, the daughter of Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe.

26. Camilla Parker-Bowles will be joining her husband, Prince Charles, and the rest of the royal family at Queen Elizabeth's Sandringham Estate in Norfolk for the Christmas holiday.

27. Camilla Parker-Bowles will become Queen—sort of—when her husband, Prince Charles, assumes the throne, despite any fervent wishes otherwise that my be lurking within the British government.

28. Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles have always been a fan of framed family photos; older pictures from Clarence House show adorable childhood pictures of Prince Charles and his sons.