It’s the bombshell New Idea royal exclusive that has gone right around the world today, and now Clarence House has finally officially responded to Queensland father Simon Charles Dorante-Day’s legal moves to determine if he is love child of Prince Charles and his now-wife Camilla.
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Responding as major newspapers in the UK pick up the story, Clarence House told Britain’s Mirror Online they ‘did not have any comment to make on the story’.
The acknowledgement of the story– as well as the pointed refusal to issue a swift denial – have added new fuel to the mystery that has taken the world by storm today. In an exclusive interview with New Idea this week, Simon confirms he has started legal proceedings against the Duchy of Cornwall – Prince Charles’ official royal estate – in the High Court of Australia
Simon, 53 year, says he has compelling evidence that he is the child of Charles and Camilla, born out of wedlock in 1966 when they were both teenagers, and adopted to a family who had strong, private ties to the Queen.
‘My grandmother, who worked for the Queen, told me outright that I was Camilla and Charles’ son many times,’ Simon exclusively tells New Idea.
Simon has taken his case to the High Court in what he describes as the most ‘significant’ step so far in his fight for the truth.
‘This is most explosive thing that’s ever happened to the palace,’ says Simon. ‘It’s definitely the most significant step I’ve taken so far – I’ve had to force a deadline, hold them to a date, because we need answers.’
Simon was born on April 5, 1966, in Gosport, Portsmouth, in the UK.
At the age of 18 months, he was adopted by a local couple named Karen and David Day. His adoptive grandparents, Winifred and Ernest, both worked for the Queen and Prince Philip in one of their royal households. Ernest Bowlden received an Imperial Service Award for his work for Her Majesty.
Simon’s grandmother told him many times he was Camilla and Charles’ child. ‘She didn’t just hint at it, she told me outright,’ he says.
Simon says he has learnt that Charles and Camilla first became close in 1965, and just months later, in the lead-up to when Simon was born, Camilla mysteriously disappeared for at least nine months, while Charles was sent to Australia.
Adding to the mystery, the hospital where Simon was reportedly born didn’t deliver babies at the time and the names of the parents listed on his birth certificate were fictitious.
Simon has firm recollections of being taken to houses around Portsmouth as a little boy, where he would spend time with the woman he believes was Camilla while protection officers and his adoptive parents waited outside.
For more, see this week’s New Idea – out now.
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