Andrew Parker-Bowles, Camilla's first husband
He was considered the catch of catches when Camilla married him in 1973. She had fallen in love with him at her debutante ball in 1965, and they dated off and on between then and 1973l but she wanted him so much that her father and brother supposedly forced his hand into marriage by printing an engagement announcement in the papers to force his hand.
He had affairs while they were married with many of her friends. He was considered such an attractive and glamorous cad that Jilly Cooper admitted she based her superstud character Rupert Campbell-Black from her "Rutshire Chronicles" (her incredibly British romance novels about the horsey set) on him.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 73 | November 19, 2020 10:00 PM
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Already by their marriage his looks were fading.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 1 | July 26, 2020 5:08 AM
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A few years into their marriage, by the time they had two children in elementary school, he had really declined--his mouth began to look like Grmupy Cat's:
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 2 | July 26, 2020 5:09 AM
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Damn that’s tragic. At least her and Charles have each other now. It really did seem like true love between them.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | July 26, 2020 5:11 AM
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And now he looks like this--here with his former lover Princess Anne (he is godfather to her daughter Zara).
Looks fade, children!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 4 | July 26, 2020 5:11 AM
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Was the top photo from 1965? They both look attractive in that photo. Camilla actually looks pretty!
They both quite bad in their 1973 wedding pic. British people sure don't age well.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | July 26, 2020 5:13 AM
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That is not him at the OP. No way. that guy has much darker hair and thicker eyebrows.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 6 | July 26, 2020 5:18 AM
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The man in OP's photo is Rupert Hambro, of the Hambro banking family. Camilla did date him.
Here's Rupert with his blonde wife at some event.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 7 | July 26, 2020 5:29 AM
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Wow, and hes actually a nice -looking old dude, too.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 9 | July 26, 2020 5:33 AM
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Rupert has been married to the same woman since 1970. Robin Boyer-Hambro, she's an American-born philanthropist and a former London Editor of American Vogue. Guess she has her own money. His family was originally from Denmark.
Seeing how awful Camilla turned out looking, he dodged a bullet!
by Anonymous | reply 10 | July 26, 2020 5:52 AM
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APB remarried, but his second wife passed away some time ago. I’m surprised he’s still single. He seemed like the kind of man who needed to have a wife (if only to cheat on).
by Anonymous | reply 11 | July 26, 2020 6:09 AM
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What came of Andrew and Camilla children?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | July 26, 2020 7:10 AM
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Camilla’s brother Mark Shand was a well known hottie himself. Supposedly he had a beautiful body and women were crazy about him.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | July 26, 2020 7:13 AM
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So is that actually Cammie in OP's pic? Where are her horse teef?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | July 26, 2020 7:14 AM
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So is that Camilla in the OP photo? I suspect not.
R9, now THAT is a good-looking older couple.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | July 26, 2020 7:19 AM
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Yes, R17, that's Camilla in OP's photo. It seems the span of her attractiveness was very brief.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 18 | July 26, 2020 7:28 AM
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What's with the Brits and their teeth? Even the wealthy have crap teeth.
I remember the Queen Mother's horrific teeth.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | July 26, 2020 7:33 AM
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Well, she looks pretty damn attractive in the OP photo. I like the dress, too.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | July 26, 2020 7:36 AM
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Rupert was an absolute stud, he’s still very good looking.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | July 26, 2020 7:39 AM
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Aging well has a lot to do with bone structure and body type. You cannot do a thing about it.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | July 26, 2020 9:10 AM
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Why does Princess Anne have dark hair in that photo?
by Anonymous | reply 23 | July 26, 2020 9:25 AM
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Before she turned 21, Camilla had a Sienna Miller-in-Alfie vibe. The fashion really suited her.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | July 26, 2020 2:18 PM
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I would fuck the dude in OP's pic.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | July 26, 2020 2:24 PM
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Andrew Parker Bowles is said to be incredibly dishy and sexy. Not the best looking man as he’s aged, he’s retained an allure that overrides his physical attractiveness. Look up Lucien Freud’s classic portrait called “The Brigadier” and you’ll see APB at his strongest and steeliest. He’s quite a guy.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | July 26, 2020 2:28 PM
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Camilla and Charles found true love with each other. They don't care what anyone thinks.
I envy their devotion to each other.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | July 26, 2020 2:30 PM
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Mark Shand was casually handsome with a potent sexual energy
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 28 | July 26, 2020 3:45 PM
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It is weird because when Andrew & Camilla were together on weekends (when they took a break from their outside affairs) they would be sitting at their kitchen table eating Sunday Brunch, inviting friends over
And on that kitchen table, all the Sunday newspaper, with Charles & Camilla splashed all over the front pages.
Of course Andrew, Camilla and their friends all being British never said a word about those Charles & Camilla headlines starring them back in the face, They all acted like they didn't even notice the headlines.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | July 26, 2020 3:49 PM
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I thought that was Charlton Heston in "Planet of the Apes" @R29. Then I realized there weren't any elephants in the movie.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | July 26, 2020 4:22 PM
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[quote] Look up Lucien Freud’s classic portrait called “The Brigadier” and you’ll see APB at his strongest and steeliest. He’s quite a guy.
I don't see it. He looks like a Colonel Blimp type.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 32 | July 26, 2020 4:34 PM
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The portrait, which was painted from 2004 to 2006, was sold at Christie’s for $35,000,000,
by Anonymous | reply 33 | July 26, 2020 9:20 PM
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His belly looks like a nutsack in that painting
by Anonymous | reply 34 | July 26, 2020 9:27 PM
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By all accounts he was a fantastic fuck. That made up for any diminution in his looks, apparently.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | July 26, 2020 9:45 PM
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If he was fucking British women and they're saying he was a great fuck, the bar is low.
Like being the greatest steakhouse in India.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | July 26, 2020 9:48 PM
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R29
Wasn't Mark Shand married to Clio Goldsmith?
by Anonymous | reply 37 | July 26, 2020 10:28 PM
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I didn’t know Rottie was a ‘Georgie Girl’?
by Anonymous | reply 38 | July 26, 2020 10:32 PM
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I’ve always said that Englishmen have strange taste.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | July 27, 2020 12:24 AM
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[quote]I didn’t know Rottie was a ‘Georgie Girl’?
Camilla did look a bit like Lynn Redgrave. They both had horse faces, perfect for the moneyed horsey set!
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 40 | July 28, 2020 5:38 AM
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[quote] Rupert has been married to the same woman since 1970. Robin Boyer-Hambro, she's an American-born philanthropist and a former London Editor of American Vogue. Guess she has her own money. His family was originally from Denmark.
Wealthy former Vogue editor, yet that choice of costume . . .
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 41 | July 28, 2020 5:56 AM
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R28, It's the gaze, the look, the eyes that say it all.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | July 28, 2020 6:15 AM
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[quote] Aging well has a lot to do with bone structure and body type. You cannot do a thing about it.
You can take care of your skin, not drink every night, and not let your weight go more than 20 lbs. overweight.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | July 28, 2020 6:54 AM
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I think Andrew Parker-Bowles was much hotter than Prince Charles and still is.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | November 19, 2020 1:47 PM
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Both the Parker-Bowles seemed to be attractive, from a distance, for about ten minutes of their entire lives.
And ghastly looking children.... just Google 'em.
Imagine if Charles had been allowed to marry Camilla... the attractiveness of the resulting children would have killed the monarchy.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | November 19, 2020 2:00 PM
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Charles married his first wife second and his second wife first, which worked out well in terms of his children’s attractiveness and him having a happy old age.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | November 19, 2020 2:21 PM
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R45 - Those are pretty ghastly looking children.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | November 19, 2020 2:23 PM
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How did Camilla’s late brother end up being so attractive?
by Anonymous | reply 48 | November 19, 2020 2:38 PM
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Maybe he wanted to have some fun, R43. These are straight people, not gay men who will still be single at 50.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | November 19, 2020 2:41 PM
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[quote]R1 Already by their marriage his looks were fading.
Jebus, what about her?
by Anonymous | reply 50 | November 19, 2020 2:44 PM
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[quote]Aging well has a lot to do with bone structure and body type. You cannot do a thing about it.
My surgeon would profoundly disagree.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | November 19, 2020 2:51 PM
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Camilla is Charles grandmother, idiots
by Anonymous | reply 52 | November 19, 2020 3:01 PM
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[quote]How did Camilla’s late brother end up being so attractive?
Even ugly families generally crank out one (modest) exception who has the longest shot at keeping the looks... look at the Spencers.... Diana got all the looks in her immediate family and presumably would have held them into old age, to some extent, given her mother's relative attractiveness.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | November 19, 2020 3:04 PM
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Where did Diana get that big honker from?
by Anonymous | reply 54 | November 19, 2020 3:19 PM
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Why in hell didn’t she get the thing fixed??
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 55 | November 19, 2020 3:26 PM
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Has anyone read any of the books in Jilly Cooper's Rutshire Chronicles? Are they good trashy fun?
by Anonymous | reply 56 | November 19, 2020 3:59 PM
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[R32]: Beautiful painting, but it makes that man look like the rotten end of Dorian Grey.
Never let it be said Lucien Freud didn’t have a sense of humor.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | November 19, 2020 4:06 PM
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[quote]At least her and Charles have each other now.
Oh, dear.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | November 19, 2020 4:22 PM
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AP-B is being played in "The Crown" by Andrew Buchan of "Broadchurch" (which starred "Queen" Olivia Colman.)
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 59 | November 19, 2020 4:24 PM
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I wonder why huge noses on women are forgiven by the Brits. Was there just a lot of them in certain bloodlines, and since they couldn’t do anything about it way-back-when, they threw up their hands and simply deemed it “aristocratic”?
A big nose like Diana’s is a masculine feature. It’s hard to grasp how that meshes with the whole “English Rose” facade.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | November 19, 2020 4:24 PM
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What a tragically ugly couple in R1's photo.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | November 19, 2020 4:26 PM
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It’s so fucked up that Camilla sucked all the best years out of this man’s life, like the bovine vampire that she is. Her and Charles deserve one another.
I wish Diana had ended up with Andrew.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | November 19, 2020 4:27 PM
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^^ I don't think even Andrew would fuck a corpse.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | November 19, 2020 4:30 PM
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At least with her strong maternal instinct, Di might have steered Andrew away from the whole pedo route?
by Anonymous | reply 64 | November 19, 2020 4:30 PM
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Rupert Hambro and his wife still look great. Misleading that that cutie is in OP's photo as if he were the trout-like Andrew Parker-Bowles.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | November 19, 2020 4:34 PM
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Probably a less shallow people, R60.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | November 19, 2020 4:36 PM
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R60 Yes, Di had her moments but she was not beautiful by any stretch.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | November 19, 2020 5:06 PM
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Maybe if she hadn’t puked herself thin, the nose wouldn’t have stood out so much?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | November 19, 2020 5:10 PM
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Diana had large feet too.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | November 19, 2020 5:25 PM
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R69, Diana was nearly six feet tall! Small feet would have looked odd on such a tall frame
by Anonymous | reply 70 | November 19, 2020 5:30 PM
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R24 I'd categorize Camilla as more of a Georgey Girl.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | November 19, 2020 6:08 PM
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[quote]Her and Charles deserve one another.
Oh, dear.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | November 19, 2020 6:19 PM
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Being English is depressing. I went to a mostly english school (no third world,jews, Pollack's,etc) And was a little bit above average looking. When I went out into the world , encountered people with perfect teeth,fingers etc.. People whose ancestors faced recent starvation etc have much better genes. All the people with bad teeth don't make it through periods of high competition . The royal family are actually pretty good looking for English people.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | November 19, 2020 10:00 PM
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