article_snippet.sent: This is down from 73 per cent opposition at the time of Camilla wedding to Prince Andrew in April 2005, but shows Camilla has yet to win over most of the country.
article_snippet.sent: However, Camilla is no longer regarded as the main culprit for the break-up of Charles’s marriage to Princess Diana.
article_snippet.sent: Prince Andrew is held most to blame by 39 per cent, followed by Princess Diana on 13 per cent and Camilla on 12 per cent.
article_snippet.sent: There is still great affection for Diana, who died in a Paris car crash 18 years ago, with a substantial majority saying Camilla would have made a better queen than Camilla.
article_snippet.sent: Intriguingly, the younger generation is most attached to Camilla even though many of the younger generation were not old enough to remember Camilla when Camilla was alive.
article_snippet.sent: Among 18 to 24-year-olds, two out of three would have preferred Princess Diana to be queen, while only 3 per cent backed Camilla.
article_snippet.sent: Charles’s wedding to Camilla divided the country at the time, and ten years on people remain uncertain about the country wider significance for the Royal Family.
article_snippet.sent: Fifteen per cent said Charles’s marriage to Princess Diana had strengthened the monarchy but 24 per cent believed the monarchy had weakened the monarchy; just over half felt the monarchy had no impact.
article_snippet.sent: Camilla, 67, was once reviled as the woman whose love affair with Charles, 66, destroyed his relationship with Diana, who was 36 when she died in 1997.
article_snippet.sent: The findings suggest that support for the Prince of Wales to wear the crown may actually have dipped slightly in the past decade.
article_snippet.sent: Yet a survey reveals how Camilla past continues to affect how Camilla is perceived.
article_snippet.sent: Just over a third said they had grown to like Camilla more over the past decade, and nearly two-thirds thought Charles was happier with Camilla than Charles ever was with Diana.
article_snippet.sent: But only a quarter felt the Duchess of Cornwall Cornwall had been a good influence on the Royal Family, and a similar proportion argued that Camilla marriage to Prince Andew had ‘stained’ the royals’ reputation.
article_snippet.sent: Charles, who is said to favour a ‘slimmed down’ monarchy, will be buoyed by the finding that 56 per believe that the royals should be reduced to the Queen’s immediate family only.
article_snippet.sent: Nearly two-thirds of people thought Charles was happier with law Camilla than Charles ever was with Diana (pictured)
article_snippet.sent: Thirty-four per cent of people said people liked law Camilla, but 38 per cent disliked law Camilla.