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You've seen Prince Charles and Camilla being wed on television. Now you
can catch their early romance on film, in a one-off special catapulting
the middle-aged British couple back 34 years in time.
Britain's ITV television channel said Monday it was
currently casting actors for a two-hour dramatization of the first meeting
and early relationship between Britain's heir to the throne and Camilla
Parker Bowles, then known by her maiden
name
Camilla Shand.
But the film will end at Charles's 1981 marriage to then Lady Diana
Spencer, without going into lurid but little-known details about how he
and Camilla, sometime in the late 1980s and while still married to others,
rekindled their romance.
The film is to be entitled "Whatever Love Means" -- quoting Charles's
response to the press when he was asked earlier this year whether he loved
Camilla.
The couple married on Saturday in a modest civil ceremony in Windsor,
west of London, followed by a religious service and reception attended by
hundreds including celebrities and royals at Queen Elizabeth II's Windsor
Castle.
A spokeswoman at Granada, the ITV franchise producing the film, said
the drama would focus on "why they fell in love so deeply" and recount
their "passionate relationship up to his marriage".
"For the moment we've decided to concentrate on the early years," she
said when asked why the work did not cover the period of their affairs and
their live-in companionship in later life, saying that was "not for the
telling in this particular film".
Charles and Camilla, then in their early 20s, met
for the first time at a polo
match in Windsor, and they later became close, spending time at the
prince's private apartments in Buckingham Palace.
However, after Charles joined the Royal Navy and was posted abroad,
Camilla lost hope he would propose and married army officer Andrew Parker
Bowles in 1973.
The couple, who have two children, were divorced in 1995.
Charles and Princess Diana separated in 1992 and were divorced four
years later. Diana died in a car crash in 1997 in Paris.
"Whatever Love Means" will film for five weeks in Dublin beginning in
May, and is scheduled for broadcast in Britain later this year at an
unspecified date, ITV said.
(Shenzhen Daily) | 
Updated: 2005-04-13 11:19
