How King Charles and Queen Camilla will spend their twentieth wedding ceremony anniversary | EUROtoday

The King and Queen will mark their twentieth wedding ceremony anniversary on Wednesday by spending the night as visitors of honour at a state banquet in Rome.

The black-tie dinner, a spotlight of the couple’s four-day state go to to Italy which begins on Monday, might be attended by distinguished figures from Italian society.

The day will mark 20 years since Charles and Camilla wed at Windsor Guildhall on April 9, 2005.

The civil ceremony adopted a romance that started once they had been of their early 20s.

Charles first met enjoyable, assured Camilla on the Windsor Great Park polo subject in 1970 when he had simply left Cambridge University, a yr earlier than he joined the Royal Navy.

No marriage proposal got here, regardless of the closeness between the pair and when the connection cooled after Charles devoted himself to his Navy profession, Camilla wed cavalry officer Andrew Parker Bowles in 1973 and Charles later married Diana, Princess of Wales in 1981.

After Charles and Camilla each divorced – and Diana died in l997 – Camilla’s eventual emergence as Charles’ long-term companion was a part of a fastidiously deliberate PR marketing campaign masterminded by the inheritor to the throne’s spin physician Mark Bolland.

Their first public look collectively was exterior the Ritz lodge in London in 1999, dubbed Operation Ritz, the place the mass of ready photographers had been tipped off.

At their wedding ceremony reception, held the identical day because the Grand National, Queen Elizabeth II mentioned about their romance: “They have overcome Becher’s Brook and The Chair and all kinds of other terrible obstacles. They have come through and I’m very proud and wish them well.

“My son is home and dry with the woman he loves.”

The King spent Friday making remaining preparations for the state go to to the Republic of Italy however the separate state go to to the Holy See, the federal government of the Roman Catholic Church situated within the Vatican – the world’s smallest impartial state – has been postponed because the Pope is recovering from a bout of pneumonia.

With quite a lot of Vatican occasions faraway from the itinerary in Rome, the remaining engagements within the Italian capital have been unfold over two days with further components added to some engagements.