Camilla had blown smoke in plenty of faces for fifty years and now 'she couldn't stand to see anyone else smoke'.
The Middletons were related to English actor, Sir John Gielgud; author and illustrator Beatrix Potter of Peter Rabbit fame; Britain's leading Shakespearean actress, Ellen Terry; and through Sir Thomas Fairfax, a seventeenth-century statesman somehow connected to the Royal Family.
He got down on bended knee and proposed with his mother's famous eighteen-carat sapphire and diamond engagement ring — 'my way of making sure my mother didn't miss out on today'.