Personal Life
Parker Bowles had a brief relationship with Princess Anne in about 1970. He married Camilla Rosemary Shand in a Roman Catholic ceremony in 1973; formerly, she was a girlfriend of the Prince of Wales, so they had both dated royal siblings. They have two children, Tom and Laura, who were raised Roman Catholic. Laura attended St Mary's, Shaftesbury, a Catholic girls school in Dorset, while Tom attended Eton College. Camilla and Andrew Parker Bowles divorced in 1995. A year later he married his long-time mistress and companion, Rosemary Pitman. Rosemary (née Dickinson) was first married to Lieutenant-Colonel (John) Hugh Pitman, a descendant of Sir Isaac Pitman, inventor of the Pitman system of shorthand (stenography), and also the brother-in-law of Edmund Fermoy (5th Baron Fermoy), an uncle of Diana, Princess of Wales. Andrew and Rosemary Parker Bowles attended the Wedding of Camilla and the Prince of Wales, which took place on 9 April 2005. Rosemary Parker Bowles died on Sunday 10 January 2010, aged 69.
His godchildren include the circus trapeze artist Lady Emma Herbert, who was a bridesmaid at his first marriage in July 1973. He is in the line of succession to the Earldom of Macclesfield.
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