Inside Queen Camilla’s favorite home in Wiltshire – where she ‘sneaks off to watch Corrie’ | Online mirror

Queen Camilla recently professed her love for Netflix hit Bridgerton while visiting a garden inspired by the Regency-era drama at the Chelsea Flower Show. Despite being an avid reader, Camilla is not one to shy away from popular serials and soaps.

At an event in 2022, she hinted that she had been watching Netflix’s The Crown when she jokingly suggested her “fictional alter ego” Emerald Fennell, who plays Camilla in the show, could finish her speech for her. As well as Netflix dramas, the Queen is said to be a fan of British TV show Coronation Street, often bingeing on episodes when she retreats to her home in Wiltshire.

While the Royal Family boasts an impressive array of official residences across the country, Camilla retains her private home in Wiltshire, which she purchased following her divorce from Andrew Parker-Bowles in 1994.

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This residence is renowned as Camilla’s favorite hideaway where she can escape the royal spotlight and spend time with her grandchildren. Last year, it served as the backdrop for portraits taken by the Princess of Wales to mark Camilla’s 75th birthday, reports OK!.

After divorcing her first husband, Andrew Parker-Bowles, Camilla bought Ray Mill in Wiltshire for £850,000 and lived there full-time from 1996 to 2003. Conveniently, it’s just 15 minutes from drive from King Charles’ treasured home, Highgrove.

Camilla’s stunning abode boasts a number of impressive features, including a lush outdoor swimming pool, a terrace perfect for summer days, stables ready for her beloved horses, extensive gardens and even her own river. It was the venue of choice for Camilla’s daughter Laura Lopes, who celebrated her marriage to Harry Lopes with a reception there in 2006.

The residence is cherished by Camilla as her sanctuary, where she can relax comfortably away from royal protocol. A source told the Express how the Queen enjoys her free time at Ray Mill: “At Ray Mill she can sit with a big GandT, kick off her shoes and watch Coronation Street, which Charles hates.”

In this personal retreat, Camilla enjoys a relaxed atmosphere, which contrasts with Charles’s preference for order: “She also doesn’t have to worry about how the place looks. Charles is so fussy with order as he leaves his things all over the place. She doesn’t need her pillows full all the time.”

This insight into the Queen Consort’s relaxed lifestyle echoes previous revelations, such as those from her good friend and former flatmate Virginia Carrington, who revealed that Camilla’s bedroom often resembles the aftermath of an explosion.

After completing her studies at Mon Fertile and leaving school, a young Camilla, then 17, shared a two-bedroom flat in Belgravia with Virginia, the scion of the venerable former foreign secretary Lord Carrington.

Virginia openly reminisced about their shared life experience in Jessica Jayne’s illuminating book The Duchess of Cornwall: Camilla’s Story And Secrets.

The author remembers: “When he came home, he would put his clothes on the floor and leave them. Camilla’s bedroom always looked like a bomb had hit it.”

Radio presenter Gyles Brandreth painted a similar picture, declaring: “Virginia was quite tidy and organised, and Camilla went crazy, in the nicest possible way.”

He also shared Virginia’s words with: “You know, Camilla has this inability to hang anything on a hanger. And he has an aversion to cleaning fluids of any kind. You should see the state of the bathroom when he was in it.” “”.