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Leads Cast for Charles and Camilla Special
12 MAY 2005
Gazing lovingly into each other's eyes for the cameras, actors Laurence Fox and Olivia Poulet stepped into their new roles this week as a young
Prince Charles and the woman who would become the
Duchess of Cornwall - Camilla Shand, as she was then known.
The pair have landed the lead roles in
Whatever Love Means, a two-hour programme following the couple's love affair in the years before the Prince of Wales met his first wife Diana Spencer.
The drama, which is to be aired on ITV later in the year, will be shot over a period of five weeks in Dublin. It kicks off with the pair meeting at a 1970 polo match and ends on the eve of the Prince's marriage to former nursery school aid Diana 11 years later.
A spokesperson for the production company behind the programme, which is named after Charles' now legendary response to reporters who asked if he was in love with Diana, says the drama will focus on "why they fell in love so deeply" and recount their "passionate relationship up to his marriage".
Charles and Camilla, who wed in April, were in their early 20s when they met at a Windsor polo match. Similar interests and shared sense of humour quickly brought them closer together, but when Charles' Royal Navy posting took him overseas, Camilla, feeling he had no intention of proposing, married army officer Andrew Parker Bowles.
Actors Laurence Fox and Olivia Poulet step into their new roles as 20-something Charles and Camilla. The pair star in a two-hour drama documenting the early years of the couple's love story
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The Duchess of Cornwall's style transformation continues. Above, she opts for pretty springtime pink for a royal visit to Gloucestershire)
Camilla's make-up artist says anyone can achieve the fresher look. "With correct illumination, shimmer and highlighting," she says, "you can take ten years off"
