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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Caroline Davies

Mark Bolland: the PR guru whose job was to ‘make Camilla more presentable’

The king and queen consort
Charles and Camilla. Harry has said he sees himself as a victim of the campaign to rehabilitate Camilla and pave the way to marriage. Photograph: Reuters

As Camilla is crowned alongside the king at Westminster Abbey on 6 May, might she cast her mind back some 20 years and reflect on the debt of gratitude she undoubtedly owes to one man in particular?

If the Duke of Sussex is present – though it’s not certain Charles’s avenging younger son will be – might he too dwell, with less appreciation, on the part played by the same man in his stepmother’s once unthinkable transformation from mistress to queen consort ?

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