Just to clarify things. Camilla was never in her life Roman Catholic. She and Andrew married in a Catholic church and her children were raised Catholic but Camilla, herself, never converted from the Church of England.
I was not saying that Camilla was Catholic, I was making an illustration, I also included being a divorcee in my illustration and Camilla was not a divorcee in the 1970s.
Uncle "Dickie" Mountbatten was the person Charles listened to most when it came to relationships. Camilla and Charles spent quite a bit of time together at Broadlands back when they first met but Mountbatten didn't think that Camilla was "bride material" for Charles but rather good for sowing the wild oats.
To be sure Charles put a lot of stock in what Louis Mountbatten / Uncle Dickie thought and his advice but he was not a complete submissive. Fast forward to the late 1970s, that's when Charles was carrying on with married women like Camilla and Kanga Tryon, which distressed his great uncle tremendously because he feared that Charles could end up like his other great uncle, Edward VIII, and he did not mince words in the letters he sent Charles over the matter, nevertheless Charles continued on with his relationships with married women.
The point is moot anyways because even if Charles had gone the "non negotiable" route back in the 70s with Camilla, the chances of Camilla turning down Charles' proposal was good. She had her cap set at Andrew PB.
I agree. IMO Camilla setting her cap for Andrew Parker Bowles is really what torpedoed Charles and Camilla, Parte Une.
I don't know what you mean by a PR problem. of course the reasoning behnd the idea was that if a woman had a sexual past, tthe press would get hold of it, and it would run stories and be embarrassing.
That's called a PR problem.
As we know from Davina Sheffield's boyfriend tattling to the papers..
which was why it was unlikely that a woman with a sexual past, like Cam would have been accepted by the queen as Charles' wife.
Queen who? Queen Elizabeth II? The woman who married a man that no one approved of. Come to think Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip are a good illustration, just like with Charles, there was a sort of checklist of who would be a suitable mate for the then Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip did not meet the criteria, and yet the marriage took place.
if she was a divorced woman the same would have applied because as the future governor of the C of E, Charles could not, then have married a divorced woman because it would look bad..and the C of E would be unhappy with it.
My point, which it seems like you disagree with, is that marrying a woman with a past was problematic in that it posed a PR problem, but it was not on par with marrying a divorcee or a Catholic.
I have never heard of Charles' proposing to Anna Wallace. where did you read this story... because I don't believe that if he considered her as a serious candidate for his wife, he would have been so careless abuot her reputation that he would almost have been caught with her, in a semi naked state, outdoors.
It was reported by in the The Telegraph and the Daily Mail to name two. When I have seen write ups about Charles and Anna Wallace, I have seen more references to him proposing to her than references to the incident where they were nearly caught in an intimate moment.
