One of the most famous contemporary love stories is Camilla -Charles love story. No other love affair in recent times has perhaps attracted the amount of media attention that Prince Charles and Mrs. Parker- Bowles affair has done. It can be termed as a "spicy" love story because both were married to other people when their passion for each other was going northwards. Camilla Charles love story started in 1970, after they met at a polo match. At that point of time both were unmarried.

By a quirk of fate, Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer and Camilla Shand married an army officer Andrew Parker-Bowles, a friend of Prince Charles.

After their respective marriages, the relationship between Charles and Camilla turned more discreet, though it is surmised that Camilla had the benefit of a supposedly open marriage.

It was during her visit to Germany to meet her sister and brother- in -law that Camilla and Charles took off from where they had left. They knew each other for 35 years and the tying of knot last year formalized an already stable relationship.

Camilla - Charles love story is full of twists and turns and scandals. The late Princess Diana reportedly blamed Camilla for breaking up her marriage; she felt her marriage was too "crowded". Though she was on good terms with Camilla, the increasing presence of the other woman in her life made her refer to Camilla as "the rottweiler".  Diana's detractors, however, claim that it was her ''paranoid fixation'' with Charles and Camilla friendship that ruined their marriage. But all's well that ends well, and all has ended happily for the Prince and his long term partner. To know more on this fascinating love story, do visit My Dear Valentine.