While she didn't grow up as royalty, Queen Consort Camilla has been exposed to the royal ways for decades - even before meeting King Charles. Born Camilla Rosemary Shand, the now 75-year-old belonged to the same social circles as Princess Anne, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon when she was in her mid 20s.
These royal guests even attended her first wedding with Andrew Parker Bowles, a then Guards officer - in the early 1970s, after the couple met through his younger brother, Simon, who worked for her father's wine firm in Mayfair, London. Camilla was raised in East Sussex and South Kensington with parents Major Bruce Shand, a British Army officer-turned-businessman, and his wife Rosalind, the daughter of Roland Cubitt, 3rd Baron Ashcombe.
