Torrid Love Triangle Camilla & Anne's 48-Year Feud

They do their best to exchange pleasantries when they’re out together in public, but Princess Anne and the Duchess of Cornwall are far from close friends. Now, decades-old bitterness and jealousy threatens to resurface as details of their love rivalry are exposed once again.

“Anne and Camilla have a lot of deep-seated drama they’d rather the world forgot about,” an insider tells Woman’s Day. “But the trouble is that it’s all being dredged up – and The Crown is to blame!”

The hit Netflix drama is set to return for a third season later this year, and the primary focus will be on 67-year-old Anne’s life, and in turn, her shocking love triangle with Camilla, 71. While the scandal may be many decades in the past, there’s no doubt the renewed attention will bring to the surface years of buried tension.

“Anne and Camilla won’t be able to pretend they don’t have a storied history for much longer,” the insider reveals. “The past is getting dredged up again and it’s becoming seriously awkward for the whole of the royal family, who are being forced to pick sides. It’s only going to get worse as the show continues and it’s especially difficult for Camilla, who has worked so hard to try to win over the public. This is her worst nightmare.”

Anne’s relationship with Camilla dates back decades before the duchess married her brother Prince Charles in 2005.

Bad blood

In 1970, Anne embarked on an affair with a young cavalry officer, Andrew Parker Bowles – who would later become Camilla’s husband, and father of her children Tom and Laura.

In fact, Camilla was seeing Andrew when he dumped her to start a romance with Anne. And she was apparently so furious about his wandering eye that she got her sweet revenge by starting an affair of her own – with Anne’s brother Charles.