TLC's CHARLES & CAMILLA: ROAD TO THE ALTAR Shows How the Controversial Couple Was Destined to Be Together

TLC's CHARLES & CAMILLA: ROAD TO THE ALTAR Shows How the Controversial Couple Was Destined to Be Together

- Saturday's Special Includes Footage from the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles and Looks at the Couple's Lives Together, Apart and Together Again -

SILVER SPRING, Md., April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Theirs is the wedding many thought would never happen. After intense public scrutiny, scandal and a series of delays, it often seemed impossible. But, true romance stands the test of time. TLC's new special, CHARLES & CAMILLA: ROAD TO THE ALTAR, documents how this couple's love could be interrupted but not outlasted. They endured almost unbearable public scrutiny of their personal lives and survived the ups and downs of life inside and outside Buckingham Palace -- only to wind up together, where they always wanted to be. Featuring footage from Saturday's royal wedding and examining the social history of an historic moment, CHARLES & CAMILLA: ROAD TO THE ALTAR premieres on Saturday, April 9, at 7 PM (ET/PT).

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CHARLES & CAMILLA: ROAD TO THE ALTAR follows a love story that bridges two centuries. Most people think the tale begins with the royal wedding in 1981 between the Prince Charles, and the beautiful new Princess of Wales, Diana Spencer. But the love story between Charles and Camilla actually started 11 years before, when the 22-year-old prince met 23-year-old Camilla Shand. Farther from the public eye, their romance blossomed, then ended abruptly when Charles joined the navy and Camilla married Andrew Parker Bowles. But their attraction never ended -- not during his marriage to Diana; not after the birth of his two sons, Princes William and Harry; and not during the scandalous divorce and tragic death of Princess Diana. Throughout these ordeals, we now see that Charles had Camilla's unwavering support.

CHARLES & CAMILLA: ROAD TO THE ALTAR is about the tangled relationships of these historical characters over a 35-year period. The story ends with a second royal wedding -- this one on April 9, 2005, between Prince Charles and the woman he has wanted for his wife for 35 years, Camilla.

Online at http://www.tlc.com/, view photos of Charles and Camilla through the ages, and get up-to-the-minute news on the wedding.

CHARLES & CAMILLA: ROAD TO THE ALTAR is produced for TLC by ABC News Productions. For ABC News Productions, Lisa Zeff is executive producer. For TLC, executive producer is Julie Rose McCully.

TLC is dedicated to high-quality, intelligent and relatable nonfiction entertainment: authentic personal stories that inspire, engage, inform and unite our audience in the spirit of life's possibilities. TLC intimately connects more than 94 million homes in North America to the human experience through its "Life Unscripted" approach to storytelling. Discovery Networks, U.S., a unit of Discovery Communications, Inc., operates and manages Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery HD Theater, Discovery Kids Channel, Discovery Times Channel, The Science Channel, Discovery Home Channel, Military Channel, Discovery en Espanol and Fit TV. The unit also distributes BBC AMERICA in the United States. Visit TLC on the web by going to http://www.tlc.com/.

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