Queen Elizabeth's Warning To Camilla On King Charles Wedding Day Revealed For The First Time: Report
Queen Elizabeth said something to her newlywed son, then-Prince Charles, as they exited Windsor Guildhall after he married Camilla.
A lip reader revealed for the first time the words the late monarch said to her son when they emerged from King Charles and Queen Camilla's civil marriage ceremony on April 9, 2005. The bride was holding her feathery headpiece as the wind nearly blew it away, and footage of the Queen saying something to the groom had circulated over the years, but there was no definite report about what she said to her son. A lip reader spoke with the Daily Mail after analyzing the video of the royals at the steps of the Windsor Guildhall on that day and shared the exchange between them.
Based on the footage, King Charles and Camilla were smiling as they emerged from the hall as husband and wife. For a couple of seconds, they posed on the steps together while the rest of the royals -- Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prince William, Prince Harry and more -- were a few feet behind them.
King Charles and Camilla stopped and waited for the rest. The wind blew, and Camilla held her headpiece the whole time while maintaining a smile on her face.
"Hold on tight," King Charles reportedly told his wife, the lip reader said. The bride looked worried and replied, "I need you/too." Four seconds later, King Charles was convinced everything would be fine and exclaimed, "All well done."
"Everyone is coming; they are very curious," he added upon seeing the crowd.
"Are they?" Camilla asked. He reassured his bride and said, "You made it down/now."
The lip reader also claimed that based on Camilla's observation of the crowd, the bride said, "They're carrying on regardless," probably due to high wind at the time.
Camilla also turned to the Queen and spoke to her, saying something like, "Oh, my hair. I think the feathers are flying." Queen Elizabeth made a brief response before moving to stand directly to King Charles and talking to him as he said, "Oops."
"I wish I hadn't had feathers," Camilla quipped, and Charles joked, "They look awful."
The Queen interjected and jokingly asked, "Feathers?" and joined in the couple's humorous exchange about Camilla's headpiece. King Charles continued ribbing Camilla and told her, "You're only going to poke my eye." She rested her case and admitted her choice of hat for the occasion "wasn't a very good idea."
As King Charles tried to get things moving and encouraged Camilla to proceed, the Queen told her son, "I did warn her, wearing feathers." King Charles appeared surprised and seemingly realized that his bride ignored her mom's suggestion, asking, "You did?"
The couple continued to walk and made their way toward the waiting crowd. Meanwhile, the lip reader also analyzed the brief exchange between King Charles' parents.
"We're leaving immediately, it's so windy," Queen Elizabeth reportedly told Prince Philip, who was standing beside her.
King Charles and Queen Camilla tied the knot nearly eight years after Princess Diana died in a fatal car crash in Paris in 1997. However, in Prince Harry's memoir "Spare," published in 2023, he admitted that he and his big brother, Prince William, "begged" their father not to marry Camilla, per the Daily Mail.
Prince Harry also shared that he feared she would be "like all the wicked stepmothers in the stories." However, Camilla eventually earned the approval of King Charles' two sons.
