Camilla Unspun ; She's Vanished From the Public Eye and Her Enemies Are Portraying Her As a Lazy Bore Who Hates 'Abroad' and Prefers Watching Tv to Royal Engagements. Is It All Going Wrong for Prince Charles's Mistress?

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She was last seen nearly three months ago, playing hostess at a children's party at Clarence House. Dressed in a demure black dress and her favourite pearls, Mrs Camilla Parker Bowles tried to look as confident as she could while helping to serve sausages and fish fingers to children suffering from cancer.

There was a time when such an event would have been seen as just another dress rehearsal for her future role as Prince Charles's wife, and possibly Queen of England or at the very least the woman the British public would accept by his side when he became Monarch.

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Camilla Unspun ; She's Vanished From the Public Eye and Her Enemies Are Portraying Her As a Lazy Bore Who Hates 'Abroad' and Prefers Watching Tv to Royal Engagements. Is It All Going Wrong for Prince Charles's Mistress?

But all that now appears so distant. Nowadays we seem to see less and less of the woman who Charles has always insisted is 'nonnegotiable' in his complicated life.

What has happened to the public image that was being so carefully cultivated for this 57-year-old countrywoman since she first appeared publicly at his side in an extraordinary blaze of media attention outside the Ritz Hotel in 1999? And, we have to ask, is Camilla's vanishing act a sign that the fairytale that promi...

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