On Saturday, November 14, Prince Charles' 50th birthday party is held in London and hosted by his companion, Camilla Parker Bowles.

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Actor Sir Antony Sher has praised the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles for helping keep Shakespeare alive in British theatres.

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Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles in the Ascot Room - chosen for the event as it was not overlooked by windows from nearby buildings, unlike the council chamber.

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As for the family's attempt to popularise Camilla Parker Bowles, the woman Charles would like to marry, she will inevitably be compared with a rival sanctified by death, as will the royals themselves.

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The church did indeed face an immediate crisis, as journalists rushed to interpret the archbishop's comment as a threat to provoke a constitutional impasse should Prince Charles wed his beloved Camilla Parker Bowles.

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Princes Philip, Charles, Andrew, Edward, William and Harry, Queen Elizabeth (50 years in the job this week), the late Princess Di, the very present if off-screen and not quite royal Camilla Parker Bowles, you name him or her, and Fleet Street has something nasty to drag up and worse to concoct.

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Prince Philip, the queen's husband, wrote Diana kind letters denouncing Prince Charles's preferred companion, Mrs Camilla Parker-Bowles?

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Camilla is Anglican but her first marriage was to Catholic Andrew Parker Bowles, and the couple brought up their children as Catholics.

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This has been widely interpreted as preparing the public which prefers Princess Diana to Mrs Parker Bowles for wedding bells and a future Queen Camilla.

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