Most Compatible Royal Couple Isn't Harry-Meghan Nor William-Kate: Body Language Expert
The most compatible royal couple in the British monarchy had stood the test of time and went through various controversies.
Darren Stanton, a body language and behavioral expert who has been featured in the BBC, Mail Online, Sky News, ITV and Daily Express, recently weighed in on the British family's royal couples. According to him, the current King and Queen are the perfect match, not the younger royals, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and Prince William and Kate Middleton.
"I would say Charles and Camilla are the most compatible Royal couple. They have had this deep love since they were both very young. We're talking about a 50-year-plus romance. They've been in love a long time, and it's been an intense relationship where they've had to overcome a lot," Stanton said, per Mirror.
"Even looking at pictures of them when they were younger, whenever Camilla was photographed, it's so clear they had this deep intensity for one another, and it has continued to grow. They have the same passion for each other still to this day."
The expert noted how the King would be "looking around and fidgeting" without Camilla by his side. She reportedly brings out the light-hearted side of the monarch.
"When they are together, we see this genuine laughter shared between them with engaged eye contact, and this shows how they are on the same page emotionally," the expert continued.
"When he was a young Prince, we rarely saw him display a relaxed nature. Camilla brings that side out of him where he can be himself, let go and just enjoy his time as King."
King Charles and Queen Camilla dated before he married Princess Dana. They met in 1970 at a polo match in Windsor Great Park.
They dated shortly, but things cooled down when the monarch joined the Royal Navy in 1971. Two years later, Camilla rekindled her relationship with Andrew Parker Bowles, and she married him on July 4, 1973, Harper's Bazaar reported.
In 1981, King Charles and Princess Diana got engaged and married a few months later. In 1986, King Charles restarted his affair with Camilla, according to his authorized biography "The Prince of Wales" written by Jonathan Dimbleby. He also confirmed this in a 1994 televised interview with Dimbleby.
The author asked if he was faithful, and King Charles said "Yes" before a pause, adding, "Until it became irretrievably broken down, us both having tried."
In 1992, King Charles and Camilla made headlines amid the "Camillagate" scandal. Their intimate phone call leaked where he made some references to wishing he "lived in her knickers."
In Princess Diana's interview with the BBC's "Panorama" in 1995, she spoke about the affair, saying her relationship with King Charles didn't work because "there were three of us in this marriage."
Both eventually divorced their first spouses. They received an intense backlash for their affair, but the couple endured it.
In February 2005, years after they both finalized their divorces and nearly a decade after Princess Diana's passing, they announced their engagement. King Charles and Queen Camilla tied the knot in a civil ceremony on April 9, 2005.
