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It’s been a busy week for Camilla leading up to her special day having celebrated Prince Louis’ christening as well as watching the momentous RAF flyover from Buckingham Palace.
The duchess was also pictured enjoying a day out at Wimbledon with her sister Annabel to watch the men’s quarter finals last week.
Last year, Camilla marked her milestone 70th birthday with a garden party at Clarence House which boasted a star-studded guest list including Joanna Lumley and Dame Maggie Smith.
But this year it is her husband Charles’ turn to mark seven decades, turning 70 on November 14.
CAMILLA’S BIRTHDAY
Today Camilla and Charles will visit St Mary’s, the largest island on the Isles of Scilly, where they will open a newly redesigned quayside and meet members of the Isles’ Smart Islands Partnership Programme, a group hoping to “deliver smart solutions to energy, waste, water and sewage services”.
She will also tour the local produce market on the island today and meet community groups, including the Sailing Club.
The duchess is currently in the middle of an annual tour of Cornwall with her husband Prince Charles.
Charles and Camilla have been married for 13 years, but the couple have a long and complicated history.
Although the couple met when they were young, they both married other people – Camilla married Andrew Parker-Bowles, a retired military officer, but the pair divorced in 2005.
Charles married Princess Diana, the mother of Prince William and Prince Harry.
After Diana’s death, the couple brought their relationship out in the open, with Camilla attending a hunt with Charles and his two sons.
The pair were first photographed together as a couple in January 1999 as they left the Ritz Hotel after celebrating a party for Camilla’s sister, Annabel.
Charles, 69, finally married Camilla in 2005, in a low key ceremony at Windsor Guildhall and Camilla was given an engagement ring that once belonged to his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
The Queen and Prince Philip, as well as Camilla’s parents, did not attend the wedding, supposedly because the couple had both previously been married.
However, they did attend the service of prayer and dedication that followed, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
At a ceremony later that day, the Queen spoke to say she was happy in the knowledge that her son was “home and dry with the woman he loves”.
Royal commentators believe that he intends to make her Queen Camilla one day.
But her title will not be officially confirmed until his accession.
At this point, Charles will also reveal if he plans to take on another name as King. George VII has been suggested by some commentators.
This would mark a reversal of a previous plan, dating back to their 2005 marriage, to style her as Princess Consort instead.
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