Both eventually divorced, then finally had their happily-ever-after when they wed in 2005.

Charles, in turn, saw his mother as distant and uninvolved in his childhood.

Time, understanding, and the steadfastness of a loving woman helped change all that.

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Queen Elizabeth didn’t attend Prince Charles and Camilla’s 2005 weddingbecause it was a civil ceremony.

Charles, too, grew in maturity.

“She believed, at last, that he could be a fine king.

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Charles, significantly, had also changed his mind about his mother,” say the writers.