The Duchess stars in Camilla’s Country Life, an ITV documentary, in which viewers watch Camilla become a guest editor of Country Life magazine and get a glimpse into her private life.
Camilla’s Country Life follows the royal family as she guest-edited this month’s issue to mark her 75th birthday on Sunday and the magazine’s 125th anniversary.
Cameras filmed the Duchess attending an exhibition in Manchester featuring photos of domestic violence survivors, visiting the Grand National, touring her grandparents’ former country home in Hampshire and attending the Royal Cornwall Show.
When asked during the hour-long special what guidance she would offer her younger self, Camilla said: “Well, I think I would remember what my parents gave me, the advice they gave me, which was to try to take into account with others.
“I think that’s really important to learn in life…and I think, you know, I’d give the same advice to my kids and my grandkids.”
In a four-star Telegraph review, Anita Singh said the show proves that Camilla is “the royal secret weapon”.
She said: “These are tough times for the royal family, with You-Know-Who and That-Couple-Over-There.
“Thank God for the Duchess of Cornwall, who has proved to be the Firm’s secret weapon.
“’Camilla’s Country Life’ was a portrait of the Duchess in public and private.
“She came across as a very decent person with a mischievous sense of fun, and someone who is as normal as it gets to get her status.”
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In one scene, Camilla and Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, discuss how they worked together to make the cover of future Queen Consort’s Country Life magazine.
Royal fans were impressed by the clip, posted on Clarence House’s Twitter, with user Lin Bowdery calling it a “brilliant program”.
User J Turner added: “I really enjoyed the show and would have loved to watch another episode.
“I bought a copy of the magazine, never read it, but it looked very interesting.”
Another user, @JulieAitken20, said: “The photos are fantastic and it’s so nice to hear about their mother-in-law/daughter-in-law relationship, just like thousands of us.
“Brings some sort of normalcy to the highest-ranking families.”
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Speaking to The Australian Women’s Weekly, Camilla spoke about being the future queen consort, praising Prince Philip for setting an example for supporting a monarch as a husband.
She said, ‘I have heard that your place is a few meters behind the frost. You are there as a backup.”
She also spoke about learning to speak in public, saying she was so “petrified” the night before she was due to give her first speech at an international conference.
She said: “I was out of bed and tying my sheets together to see if I could escape and go home.
“I’m never going to enjoy it. My husband is very good; he loves it. Because he is a very good actor, I think. You have to have some acting experience.
“I was the worst actor in the whole school. If I had to say one line, it always came out backwards. So I think speeches… no, that’s never going to be my favorite thing.”