Are separate bedrooms are the secret to King Charles and Queen Camilla’s enduring marriage?
Canopy bed for ONE! Are separate bedrooms the secret to King Charles and Queen Camilla’s happy marriage?
A good night’s sleep – alone – could be the key to the king’s successful long-term love affair with Queen Camilla, a royal expert has speculated.
The monarch, 74, and Camilla, 75, wasted their time between places, and while Buckingham Palace is officially their residence, their London base is believed to be Clarence House.
It is not uncommon for members of the royal family to retire to different bedrooms at night.
The Prince and Princess of Wales slept separately when they lived at Kensington Palace.
And it was speculated that the late Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip even had rooms in completely different parts of the palace.
King Charles and Queen Camilla would sleep in different beds due to the monarch’s back pain
However, it has been said that the reason why Charles and Camilla part ways for the evening is due to the king’s health.
He suffers from back pain and it is speculated that sleeping alone can relieve the pain and would therefore be beneficial to the royal family.
His son, Prince Harry, wrote in his book Spare about how his father battled “constant neck and back pain.”
He attributed the chronic pain in part to his father’s old polo injuries.
In 2021, King Charles himself also admitted that his back was ‘not so good’ in an episode of Mr Armitage’s The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed.
A source previously told the Daily Mail that the new monarch and his wife share three bedrooms at Clarence House.
“His Royal Highness has a room with a double bed, decorated to her own taste, then Camilla has her own room with a double bed, decorated just the way she likes,” says the royal comrade.
A source previously told the Daily Mail that the new monarch and his wife share three bedrooms at Clarence House
It is not uncommon for members of the royal family to retire to different bedrooms at night
‘In addition, they have a shared bedroom with a double bed that they can use whenever they want. The arrangement suits them perfectly.’
But not only do the couple sleep separately at Clarence House, but also when they travel to the Gloucestershire countryside.
Camilla is also said to have her own room at Highgrove Mansion, but she prefers to spend time at Ray Mill because it’s closer to her family.
The royals aren’t alone in sleeping separately, with around 25 percent of all American couples reportedly sleeping in separate bedrooms, and four in 10 British couples now sleep apart most nights.
British sex expert Tracey Cox says despite the stigma surrounding sleeping separately, choosing to sleep in separate beds can dramatically improve your love and sex life.