According to rumour, when Camilla Shand first met Prince Charles in 1971, she joked, “My great-grandmother was the mistress of your great-great grandfather – so how about it?”
Regardless of whether that actually happened, who could ever have predicted all those years ago the bubbly army officer’s daughter would one day go one better than her ancestor Alice Keppel (who had a long-standing affair with Edward VII) and be crowned Queen?
It was unthinkable to many people back in the 1990s, when it
