by The queen shared her secret to achieve 20 years of happy marriage: friendship, laughter and “continue with life”.
In rare words about the personal life of the royal family, Queen Camilla spoke of reaching the milestone of marriage, and their disbelief about how the past two decades have passed.
“Twenty years, who could believe that there were 20 years?” She said and spoke to the British media during the state visit in Italy.
“What’s the secret? I don’t know … I assume it’s really just a kind of friendship.
“Loaring about the same things, keeping life on. I assume that I do [public engagements] Accepts most of the time.
“We always go to different directions, such as ships that really happen at night. We race past each other.”
The king and the queen made her anniversary in Rome, where the king was the first monarch to address both houses of the Italian parliament, and later spoke in a state banquet.
He told the politicians that the timing of the visit was “all the more special for both our twentieth wedding anniversary”.
At the evening bench for 150 guests, in which he spoke to President Sergio Mattarella, the king said: “Today, as you say, he marks the queen and my twentieth wedding day.
“In this regard, I have to say that it is really good for you, President, to lie down on this little romantic dinner illuminated with candles.”
In the past that day, the queen had created the same outfit that she wore for the first time for the couple’s civilzemony in 2005 in Windsor, modified and with additional embroidery for dress and coat.
When she spoke to the press during a commitment in a local school, she said that she and the king had time in the diary to “catch up a little catch up” this afternoon, after five public engagements and a walking and before the state banquet.
They visited Pope Francis at the last minute for a 20-minute audience, in which he also wished them a happy anniversary.
The king and the queen had no time to exchange gifts, she said, adding that she plans to give the king some China, the traditional gift for a 20th anniversary.
“We’ll do that when we come back,” said the queen.
“We’ll save that. Otherwise you can’t really … you have to hurry. You have no time to say something.”
Instead, she added: “I think we could dig into our pockets at the end of the day and pull out something. I have something.”
When asked whether the king, who had his last round of cancer the day before the flight to Rome, would accept the gift of a break from work, the queen joked: “Dream.”
“They come to Italy and feel better”
In an interview, asked whether the queen was regularly visited as a child thanks to a holiday home in Florence, she said: “I always loved it here.
“You come to Italy and you feel better. They are so friendly. Everyone is so beautiful.
“You have the food, the weather, it is a bit in the air. Everything tastes better here.
“Why is it tomatoes, why does pasta taste better? You bring it back to England, it doesn’t taste the same.”
When asked if you and the king have time to relax during the tour, she said: “Yes, we do. We have time to catch up with dinner.”
She urged whether to have free time to mark the anniversary, added: “It would be very nice if we had a day free and go somewhere, but that would not happen!”
