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Recent stories from inside an Indian spa suggest that Camilla may be the most misunderstood royal of all. Is it possible for her to be, as advertised, thoroughly no-nonsense – and at the same time the poster girl for a wellness outfit where one-percenters gather for prayed-over food that creates positive vibrations in their bodies?
Central to Camilla’s rehabilitation years was the appealing idea that she would be immune – unlike her husband – to all temptations of a spiritual or orientalist nature. A stolid, fag- and gin-scented foil to her husband’s wispier, holistic yearnings, she has invariably been talked up by “friends” as the corrective to his hocus-pocus.
