REPORT BY HELLO! ROYAL CORRESPONDENT JUDY WADE
The recent newspaper report
that Prince Charles had
decided to set up a £1-million trust
fund for Camilla Parker Bowles's
son Tom, 30, and her daughter
Laura, 26, was perhaps the first
clue that they were to become part
of the Royal Family.
Charles will gain a stepson
and daughter (Tom is already
his godson), while Camilla will of
course become stepmother to
Prince Harry and Prince William,
an idea that once seemed unthinkable. Now it's about to become a reality.
For the young Princes' part, Palace officials said both were 100 per cent
behind their father. “We are both
very happy for our father and
Camilla, and we wish them all the
luck in the future,” they said in a
joint statement.
William was ten years old and
Harry only eight when the ‘War of
the Waleses’ ended with Charles
and Diana's announcement that
they had decided to separate, in
December 1992. Both boys must have been aware
of the tension in the household, although both
parents tried to shield them from much of the
misery. Andrew Morton, in his bestseller Diana, Her
True Story, described Prince William shoving paper
tissues under his mother's bathroom door while
she sobbed her heart out on the other side.
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