The 2018 biography suggests that Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, chose September 22, 1999, as her day to “lay down the law” to Prince Charles from her suite in New York’s Carlyle Hotel. Two years after Princess Diana's death, Mr Bower claims in his book "Rebel Prince" that Camilla told the Prince of Wales: “I won’t stop it. It’s my life and it’s the right thing to do.” According to Mr Bower, Charles was “fretting in his study at Highgrove” as he had just passed on the news that Nicholas Soames, Sir Winston Churchill’s grandson, had been “protesting" about her high-profile official visit to the US, which was to occur in 2005.
The biography suggests that Mr Soames previously blasted Charles and argued there was "too much publicity” surrounding Camilla for a royal tour to go ahead.
Mark Bolland, the Prince’s then 33-year-old assistant private secretary was the “orchestrator of how Charles and Camilla appeared to the world”.
However, as the book reveals, Mr Bolland was stood inside the New York suite when he witnessed Camilla’s “outburst” to Charles and “admired” her “scathing dismissal” of the Prince’s pleas and insisted that an official tour was
