Anne Robinson has been in a secret relationship with Camilla’s ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles for a year, according to reports.
The former Countdown host, 79, who has the TV nickname ‘The Queen of Mean’, is said to have found love with the twice-married retired Army brigadier, 83, after being introduced by a mutual friend.
Their reported relationship is said to be an ‘open secret’, with one of their first dates being at a dinner party attended by ex Prime Minister David Cameron.
A source told The Sun: ‘They have judiciously avoided being photographed together as they both wanted to keep this quiet for as long as possible.
‘Annie proudly tells everyone she is the daughter of a market trader chicken-seller and is as far removed from a toff as could be — frankly it beats any storyline The Crown could possibly come up with.
Anne Robinson has been in a secret relationship with Camilla’s ex-husband Andrew Parker Bowles for a year, according to reports
The former Countdown host, who has the TV nickname ‘The Queen of Mean’, is said to have found love with the twice-married retired Army brigadier, 83
Pictured at the Cheltenham Festival in 2020, Andrew and Camilla remain close friends. One friend described them as ‘joined at the hip’
‘Annie and Andrew get on splendidly — she makes him laugh, a lot, and he is one of the few people to get away with poking fun at her. She loves to joke she’s ‘new money’ — despite the fact she went to boarding school, her father got a double first and she holidayed for part of the summer at The Carlton in Cannes, when not working behind her mother’s stall.
‘They were set up by a mutual friend.’
Anne said to the publication when asked about the romance: ‘It’s none of your business’.
Camilla and Andrew divorced in 1995 after 22 years of marriage, but remain close friends – despite a complicated history which included infidelity on both parts.
Camilla was famously Charles’s mistress during her marriage to Andrew, while the latter is described by friends as having been ‘very naughty with women’ throughout.
They have two children: food writer Tom, 48 and Laura Lopes, 45, an artist.
He first met Camilla in the late 1960s and they dated on and off for several years before marrying in 1973.
According to Andrew’s cousin John Bowes Lyon, the couple were pressured into making the commitment when both their fathers published an engagement notice for them in The Times.
Charles attended the wedding of Andrew and Camilla’s son, Tom Parker Bowles, in 2005
Parker Bowles, a dashing figures as a young man, played polo on the same team as Prince Charles. Here he is pictured (right) with the prince on a royal visit to Kenya in 1971
Andrew and Camilla divorced in 1995, saying in a statement that ‘throughout our marriage we have always tended to follow rather different interests, but in recent years we have led completely separate lives.’
The following year, he married his long-term mistress Rosemary Pitman. They were together until Rosemary passed away in 2010 of cancer, aged 69.
At the time of her death it was reported that Camilla was ‘deeply saddened’ by the news.
Andrew was a guest at Charles and Camilla’s wedding in April 2005, attending their service of blessing at St George’s Chapel, Windsor.
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