{"id":2402375,"date":"2026-05-05T01:26:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2402375"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:26:36","slug":"being-the-queen-is-no-walk-in-the-park-take-it-from-camilla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/being-the-queen-is-no-walk-in-the-park-take-it-from-camilla\/","title":{"rendered":"Being the queen is no walk in the park \u2014 take it from Camilla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Royals walk on and out<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>London Bridge is not falling down. Only its junior royals.\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/29\/us-news\/royal-familys-past-nyc-visits-as-king-charles-heads-to-big-apple\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Its titled seniors \u2014 like\u00a0Camilla\u00a0\u2014 are still living large<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201998, I reported how the upper kingly class dissed her. In \u201905, I reported on her marrying\u00a0Charles. In 2026, we\u2019re curtsying to her.<\/p>\n<p>In \u201922, she and I had an alone one-on-one home-y conversation. Sighing she flopped down in a chair and said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone thinks the royal life is so easy. It\u2019s not. It\u2019s constant demands to be here, do this, open that, show up where. Doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re tired or not feeling well. Nobody really cares. So you just pull yourself together and you go. You do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWorst is the feet. Standing. Walking. And posing in place. There\u2019s that steady pain that won\u2019t go away. Rubbing, massaging your feet won\u2019t really help. When I\u2019m home what I do first is kick off those shoes. Give my toes a break. And I immediately put up my feet. My No. 1 job is to quickly walk around our home barefoot.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<\/aside>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Solo journey<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Memories of my first of several experiences with\u00a0Camilla\u2019s predecessor. The Welsh National Opera, honoring us with their presence,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/02\/19\/how-princess-dianas-nyc-trip-put-brooklyn-on-the-map-in-1989\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">celebrated at the Brooklyn Academy of Music<\/a>. The gala honored Diana, Princess of Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Enough wine and enough fancy ladies needed the john. One that usually serviced the room was cordoned off. Out of service? The reply was, \u201cYes, to everyone but Princess Diana.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Talk of a royal flush. Diana whose dress that she wore to the White House later went up for auction at Christie\u2019s but nobody could use her private throne.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Famous lines<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Drama Desk award-winning\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/news\/star-studded-celebrity-autobiography-sets-broadway-return-this-summer_1835501\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cCelebrity Autobiography\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a rotating celeb memoirs thing, returns to the Shubert Theatre this month. A rotating cast includes\u00a0Rachel Dratch,\u00a0Wayne Brady,\u00a0Will Forte,\u00a0Richard Kind,\u00a0Ralph Macchio,\u00a0Molly Shannon,\u00a0Cecily Strong,\u00a0Jason Sudeikis,\u00a0Michael Urie,\u00a0Rita Wilson,\u00a0Tate Donovan,\u00a0Danny Burstein,\u00a0Dan Levy,\u00a0Jennifer Tilly.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Keep on truckin\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Wanda Sykes\u00a0who doesn\u2019t like\u00a0Elon Musk\u2019s vehicles says, \u201cIf you drive a CyberTruck, you\u2019re a d\u2013k.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wanda\u2019s next appearance might not be at St. Pat\u2019s.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Insider deaths<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-aps-asc-tag=\"nypost-20\" data-aps-asin=\"1637740468\" data-wrapped-template=\"https:\/\/r.nypostlink.com?btn_ref=org-19984c113c692001&amp;btn_url\" href=\"https:\/\/r.nypostlink.com?btn_ref=org-19984c113c692001&amp;btn_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FAmerican-Autopsy-Medical-Examiners-Decades-Long%2Fdp%2F1637740468%3Ftag%3Dnypost-20%26asc_refurl%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fnypost.com%2F2026%2F05%2F04%2Fopinion%2Fbeing-the-queen-is-no-walk-in-the-park-take-it-from-camilla%2F%26asc_source%3Dweb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\">Dr.\u00a0Michael Baden, who wrote \u201cAmerican Autopsy\u201d<\/a>\u00a0and was for many years NYC\u2019s official coroner, the forensic pathologist and chief medical examiner, who investigated the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, OJ Simpson, George Floyd. He says:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuicides are a big problem in prisons. I determined prisoners hang themselves by using the curtain rod in shower rooms. I have since recommended collapsible rods. If the attempt is made the shower rod will break.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About the OJ case: \u201cThe smart legal team mapped out Simpson\u2019s defense strategy. They raised questions about mistakes police made \u2014 and they focused their case on race. A lot of things were not done right.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n<p>So this Manhattanite was reading the stock market report and he said to his wife: \u201cRemember that I said I was going to retire at 50? Well, my new retirement age now has to be 102.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mainly in New York, kids, mainly in New York.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royals walk on and out London Bridge is not falling down. Only its junior royals.\u00a0Its titled seniors \u2014 like\u00a0Camilla\u00a0\u2014 are still living large. In \u201998, I reported how the upper kingly class dissed her. In \u201905, I reported on her marrying\u00a0Charles. In 2026, we\u2019re curtsying to her. In \u201922, she and I had an alone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2402376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[311424,23299,49174],"class_list":["post-2402375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-opinion","tag-princess-diana","tag-queen-camilla"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Being-the-queen-is-no-walk-in-the-park-\u2014.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2402375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2402377,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2402375\/revisions\/2402377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2402376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2402375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2402375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2402375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}