One of the greatest assets that Queen Camilla has is that she has never lost the common touch. Even as a young woman she was never fazed by the royal family, and this is something that first made her attractive to the young Charles. Born on July 17, 1947 in London, she grew up in rural Sussex and was educated at Queen’s Gate School in South Kensington, before finishing schools in Switzerland and France.
Charles first met the fun, confident Camilla on Windsor Great Park polo field in 1970 when he had just left Cambridge, a year before he joined the Royal Navy. Legend has it that she was the one to remind him of a long-standing liaison between her great-grandmother Alice Keppel and King Edward VII.
