Camilla Parker-Bowles’ ex-husband and the man who had an affair with Princess Anne, Andrew Parker Bowles, has broken his silence.
He recently opened up about the worst day of the Queen’s life.
According to Andrew, Her Majesty described the 1982 IRA attacks on London as “the most ghastly day of my life”.
“It was a nice, sunny day and suddenly one heard this explosion one heard all the time in Northern Ireland,” Andrew revealed to The Express.
“One of the barriers opened and someone said, ‘They’ve blown up the Guard’. So we ran down to where the smoke was rising,” he added.
“The first horse I saw was Sefton. He had a bloody great hole in him, but he managed to pull through.”
It was later that day, Andrew said, that the Queen revealed it had been the worst day of her life. Fifteen soldiers were killed in the tragedy, and eight people and seven horses were injured.
Parker-Bowles’ admission comes after his secret affair with Princess Anne was revealed.
Princess Anne and Andrew Parker-Bowles had a heated love affair while he was dating Camilla Parker-Bowles, royal writer Penny Juror claims.
Throughout the years, the former British Army Officer’s extramarital affairs become somewhat notorious, after he married Camilla Shand – now Duchess of Cornwall – in 1973.
Royal writer Junor believes that Camilla may never have struck up a romance with Prince Charles if her then-boyfriend hadn’t struck up an affair with his royal sibling.
Junor, who regarded as a reliable source, claimed that Camilla planned to teach her “cheating boyfriend a lesson.”
She recalled the love affairs during a talk at the Henley Literary Festival, stating: “[Camilla] was passionately in love with [Andrew] but he was a cad, he was bonking other people, some of her friends.
“There was a lovely story when she was walking through London in the evening and spotted his car parked outside the flat of a very good friend of hers. So she let the tyres down and wrote a message in lipstick on his windscreen.
“So when she was introduced to Charles and he thought she was pretty special…he thought she was a bit of alright and she thought ‘Andrew is at the moment off with Princess Anne, you know her brother, teach Andrew a lesson’. So she had a fling with Charles.”
Fellow royal writer Phil Dampier believes Junor’s story may be true, and knowns that Parker-Bowles and Princess Anne are very close friends.
He told IBTimes UK: “I have read this before and it wouldn’t surprise me. Anne and Andrew Parker Bowles were very close – and they still are!
“You see them together at Royal Ascot every year and they are best friends. He was her first love and their bond goes very deep. It was a weird royal set-up which Diana went into not realising the depth of the relationships.”
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