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TV REVIEW: Queen Camilla (Channel Four) PDF Print E-mail
Written by Joanne Leyland   
Thursday, 31 May 2007

Clarence House aides can come out from behind the sofa, as tonight’s Channel Four documentary, the prematurely titled Queen Camilla, was everything they could have hoped for.

Let me say now, before anybody accuses me of pro-Camilla/Diana or anti-Camilla/Diana sentiment: I do genuinely try to be unbiased when it comes to writing about the so-called royal love ‘triangle’, although I fear any comment I may make may be jumped upon to accommodate the incredibly powerful views this particular element of royal reporting evokes in many.

However, having watched the full documentary, critics and supporters of Camilla would surely agree that this much hyped documentary, the prematurely titled Queen Camilla, had the feeling of an all-out sales pitch on behalf of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall.

Yes, there was the briefest of mentions of Camilla’s early life, the comment about which much was made in the press about her allegedly being a woman of "easy virtue" coming from the Duchess’s biographer, Christopher Wilson.



However, 90% of the documentary was incredibly kind to Camilla. It could be argued that it's about time too, such is the amount of vitriol which has been aimed in her direction, the primary reason for which is that she fell in love with the wrong man?

But if only it was this simple.....



 
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