How the marriage of King Charles with Queen Camilla transformed it

King Charles and Queen Camilla not only launch their state visit to Italy today, but they are also only 48 hours from celebrating 20 years of marriage.

Charles and Camilla met over 50 years ago now, and their immediate attraction towards each other was palpable; They both married other people, however – the Camilla with Andrew Parker Bowles, and Charles to Princess Diana – although you said what you want, it did not seem to stop their intense affection for each other. Finally, the marriage of Parker Bowles and the union between the old prince and the princess of Wales ended in the mid -1990s, and Charles and Camilla finally made the knot on April 9, 2005.

Longtime royal photographer Arthur Edwards said The sun This Camilla makes Charles a better man. “I saw their marriage closely and, in my opinion, it is an extremely happy union,” he said, adding that “it has become very obvious that they feel very happy and safe.”

“The main thing I noticed is that the king, whom I have been photographing for almost 50 years, has become a more pleasant person,” added Edwards. Although he admitted that the king was still working sometimes – who can forget the fleeing pen? – Camilla “soothes the situation” and “thanks to Camilla, he calmed down. These days, he is rarely stressed or found himself on things.”

He continued: “In the past, he got angry if the windows were closed or there was no air in the room. All this repressed anger seemed to disappear after making the knot with Camilla. ”

Edwards is aware that the marriage of the king and the queen is not perfect – “like all couples, they have a strange disagreement, said Edwards, adding that” it’s only natural ” – but, he said:” Unlike his marriage to Diana, there is even laughing in the middle of an argument “.

“They both have the history of unhappy weddings behind them and are determined that it will not happen again,” he said, adding that “the best thing that Charles and Camilla have ever been married” and “it was one of the happiest royal weddings of all time”.

According to April 9, April 9 The independent. Among the other eminent personalities of the Italian society, they will be joined at the black tie dinner by his host, Italian president Sergio Mattarella.

Elsewhere during the visit, there will be a crown lying on the tomb of the unknown soldier, and in Ravenna, the couple will attend a reception at the town hall, marking the 80th anniversary of the release of the Nazi occupation by the Allied forces, according to City and country. They will meet farmers whose land and cultures have been seriously affected by floods, and Buckingham Palace said about the visit it “will underline the depth and extent of the bilateral relationship: our defense relationship, including in the current international context; Our values, our communities and our shared communities.

A visit planned to see Pope Francis to the Vatican has been postponed while the Pope recovers a five -week fight with pneumonia; It was to be Charles’ first meeting with the Pope as king and chief of the church of England. That said, he will always make history during the visit, because Charles will become the first British monarch to address the two rooms of the Italian parliament during his stay.