Irish Examiner view: Queen Camilla, uncertainty removed

Parker-Bowles' reputational rehabilitation is complete

The UK's Elizabeth II has used her platinum jubilee message to remove any uncertainty about Camilla Parker Bowles' succession as queen consort when Charles cebomes king. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

As an example of reputational rehabilitation it would be hard to point to a better case study than the erstwhile Camilla Parker-Bowles.

Widely regarded as the wicked witch in the collapse of the marriage between Charles, the heir to the British throne, and Diana, the “People’s Princess”, she was lampooned as a scheming Sloane Ranger in the Netflix series The Crown.