Queen Camilla opens up about her ‘problem’ with King Charles during new documentary
Queen Camilla has opened up about her “problem” with King Charles during her new documentary.
Camilla, 77, has starred in a new documentary titled “Her Majesty The Queen: Behind Closed Doors”, showcasing her first year as Queen.
The documentary, which aired on Monday evening on ITV, took a look at Queen Camilla’s work in tackling domestic abuse.
The opening of the film showed Camilla visiting Government House in The Isle of Man in March 2024, just one month after Buckingham Palace confirmed King Charles, 75, had been diagnosed with a form of cancer.
Camilla was meeting Diana Parkes, a woman whose daughter Joanna Simpson was 46 when she was murdered by her estranged husband, Robert Brown, in Ascot in 2010.
Upon meeting in Government House, Parkes asked the Queen: “How is the King?”
Camilla responded: “He’s doing really well.”
Parkes added: “He looks so… It’s amazing. He looks amazing. I’m so pleased.
Queen Camilla then said: “The problem is, trying to stop him doing so much.”
Parkes continued: “Yes, I hear, I hear.”
King Charles’s wife concluded: “That… that is the problem.”
Parkes said that the work Queen Camilla is doing to raise awareness of domestic abuse is “absolutely amazing.
The mother of Joanna Simpson has campaigned ever since to support children affected by domestic abuse, co-founding the Joanna Simpson Foundation in 2014.
The new documentary follows the Queen as she works to raise awareness of domestic and sexual violence, speaking to survivors and visiting refuge centres.
Parkes has described the “huge compassion and empathy” the Queen has with survivors.
She said: “Queen Camilla is just astonishing and when anyone views the film, they will notice the huge compassion and empathy that she has with survivors.
