![]() ![]() ‘Charles is so fussy about tidiness, while she leaves her stuff all over the place.’ ‘Camilla also doesn’t have to bother about how the place looks,’ the source adds of her private home. ![]() Indeed, while Ray Mill is located just fifteen minutes’ drive from Highgrove, the two are poles apart in feel, the former a relaxed country dwelling, the latter an altogether more formal affair. Yet according to those who know her best, it is much more than that: one part sanctuary, one part ‘guilty pleasure’ it is the place where Camilla can shed the trappings of royal life and where, according to one royal source, she can ‘sit down with a big G&T, kick off her shoes and watch Coronation Street, which Charles loathes.’ The price of upmarket detached houses in Wiltshire has risen by more than 400 per cent according to the .uk website. Purchased for £850,000 at the time, it is likely to be worth substantially more by now. She lived there until 2005, and, after her marriage to the then Prince Charles, kept it on as her country retreat. The Queen Consort bought the Wiltshire residence in the months leading up to her divorce from her first husband, Andrew Parker Bowles in 1994. Pictured: A portrait taken at Ray Mill taken by Kate, the Princess of Wales, to mark Camilla's 75th birthday ![]() ![]() Ray Mill House is said to be the place where Camilla feels most at home. ![]()
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