Charles, Diana and Camilla - Barbara Pijan Lama Jyotisha Vedic Astrology

Their wedding ceremony on 29-July-1981 was an international media event, attended by celebrities and dignitaries from all the world's major nations. 750 million people watched their wedding on international television. Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales

This lovely couple produced two beautiful children, led charitable campaigns to improve lives of the less fortunate, took magnificent holidays, and otherwise appeared to enjoy an entirely charmed life.

Yet, as the media tale of their marital woes unfolded, it became clear that Charles & Diana were miserably unhappy in their marriage -- and had been so almost from the beginning.

They worked and traveled separately, although as Diana said they "had the same job". Following the typical pattern of British royalty, they allowed their children to be raised by servants.

In the famous BBC interview of 1995, Diana admitted suffering from such severe anxiety [Chandra + Ketu; Kuja + Rahu] that she indulged in self-cutting, gorging/bulimia, compulsive harassment behaviors, and attempted suicide.

Charles expressed his marriage stress via an ongoing adulterous affair (ostensibly started in Kuja/Kuja period) with an old flame, which he resumed not long after the birth of his two sons.

Diana soon followed his pattern with multiple adulterous partners during her mahadasha of the neechcha L-7 Guru. [Guru = karaka for husband; in Diana's case a neechcha auspice.]

Guru is somewhat strengthened by proximity to dutiful L-5/L-6 swakshetra Shani. In general, graha give the stronger results for the mulatrikona rashi, therefore Guru may (in addition to His other unfortunate implications) give the stronger results as L-6.

Charles' neechcha Shukra is corrected through the parivartamsha yoga of Shukra and Budha.

However Charles "corrected" situation remains unstable due to proximity of Ketu and the neechcha L-2 Surya (L-2 for second marriage) in the house of life foundations (4).

Surya is exceptionally weak and neechcha, in the final degree of Thula rashi (29:17). The un-kingly (Surya) and ephemeral (Ketu) conversation partner (Budha) and lover (Budha) who is a weak but viable second marriage partner (L-2) is present in his love life from the beginning of Surya mahadasha.

Charles' first wife was chosen by his mother and deeply beloved by his nation, but the first spouse was not emotionally favorable for him due to Ketu in domain-4 = 7th-from-Chandra and L-4 = neechcha Shukra.

For the native with Chandra/10, whatever is good or evil in domain-4 will be mirrored by both the mother and the first spouse. (Second spouse emotional relationship is primarily indicated by the conditions of domain-11, 2nd-from-Chandra.)

Charles' vimshottari dasha suggests that the final breakdown of marriage communication occurred in Kuja/L-8 Shani, 1990-1991

Charles publicly admitted that he began his famous affair with (second wife to be) Camilla Parker-Bowles in the 1980's "after I knew my marriage was over".

After Kuja/Shani -- without going public (forbidden by his mother to divorce) -- he simply lived as if a divorce had taken place.

One does not need to be the future King of England to live under these sorts of public/private constraints, but Charles' case is educational for those who are forced by their families or cultures to live a life beholden to society's "official" expectations.

Male = Thula = navamsha lagna = marriage is a harmonious balance of mutual interest.

The native's behavior in marriage = lord of Thula = neechcha Shukra/Kanya/3.

Shukra = the secure and gainful L-4/L-11, and the stable L-7 and L-2 from Chandra.

The native is attracted to women who have an inner-argumentation imbalance (perfectionism = neechcha Shukra) and his behavior in marriage is to match that woman's tendency to degrade or deny her own beauty.

T he woman with Shukra in Kanya cannot be satisfied or convinced of her own beauty due to her constant inner criticism.

The male's marriage behavior is powerfully directed by his historic relationship to the immediately younger female sibling (3) who would have a similar imbalance.

The younger sibling would have subtly trained or prepared the male to deliver the type of critical, dissatisfied comments that Kanya-Shukra females are expecting to hear.

However the powerful parivartamsha yoga between neechcha Shukra and Thula Budha brings extraordinary mental strength, gracious beauty, and ethical complexity (Surya-Ketu) to the marriage partnership. There are ultimately four graha involved in the exchange between Shukra-Kanya with the Budha-neechcha Surya-Ketu complex in Thula.

Within 3 degrees of Ketu, Budha suffers from Ketu's tendency to devalue the portfolio of any graha which Ketu contacts. Thus the native would not be able to hold his marriage partner in particularly high esteem. His own self-evaluation is also low thanks to the neechcha Surya.

Behari says of Budha/Thula/4, " Mercury makes you intelligent, but does not provide the necessary conveniences. You are surrounded by unfriendly relatives, and your health, both physical and psychological, suffers from involvement in unethical relationships.

But that is only one side of the story. After parivartamsha, Budha enters a state of "virtual uchcha" discrimination and articulateness, while Shukra enters a swakshetra state of elegance, diplomacy and architectural balance.

The native's personal marriage agenda may degrade and devalue the qualities of the wife, but in public, she became one of the most visually famous and acclaimed women in the world.

To make matters even more complicated, the second wife should be adjudged from graha associated with Shukra. The likely candidate to be karaka of the second wife is Budha, due to Budha's intimate relationship with Shukra. All of the assets and all of the liabilities of wife-1 will also apply to wife-2, albeit the minor themes of 1 become the major themes of 2, and vice versa.

In some sense, the two wives are two parts of the same person! They represent two closely intertwined components of Charles' own inner conversation with himself.

Charles' L-7 = Shani; Diana's L-7 navamsha = Shani. See Parashara's observations on Makara lagna that Cancer rising is rarely happy in marriage, due to work-horse, social-duty, task-master Shani being L-7.

Radix Chandra in Ashwini nakshatra, within 3 degrees of Rahu, tends toward emotional volatility.

Legal divorce decree & the complete reengineering of Charles' life occurred later in Rahu/Rahu .

Rahu occupies the 10th house of public dignity, forcing a major transformation of Charles' previous public "packaging".

Rahu/Rahu caused very profound changes, including Charles taking on (for the first time) true parenting (swakshetra Mars in house of children) and announcing his humanity as a lover (lagnesha Chandra) without being intimidated by Buckingham Palace or world opinion.

To say nothing of triumphing over his controlling mother (Chandra) with Rahu's catastrophic powers of tumultuous, unstoppable change.

Charles' (public) second marriage 9 April 2005 to Camilla Parker-Bowles (nativity below)

karakamsha = domain-12; she is best known for a private relationship of a bedroom nature.

Note that Camilla and Charles share Pushya radix lagna and Swati navamsha lagna.

Camilla P-B in Ketu/Shukra/Ketu at time of her 2nd marriage to Charles Prince of Wales.

11. Vanchana Chora Bheethi Yoga [Charles]

Definition.—

The Lagna is occupied by a malefic with Gulika in a trine
or Gulika is associated with the lords of Kendras & Thrikonas
or the lord of Lagna is combined with Rahu, Saturn or Kethu.

Results.—The native will always entertain feelings of suspicion towards others around him. He is afraid of being cheated, swindled and robbed.

Here three sets of combinations can apply:

ascendant must have an evil planet with Gulika disposed in the 5th or 9th.
Gulika should be associated with the lords of 1, 4, 7, 10, 5 and 9.
Lord of Lagna should join Rahu or Saturn or Kethu.

In all these cases, the person will not only have fears from cheats, rogues and thieves but he will also have huge material losses.

The combinations pertaining to this Yoga are found in almost all horoscopes, so that we are all guilty of cheating and being cheated one another in some form or the other. It is a tragedy of our social life that a merchant minting millions at the cost of the poor is left scot-free while the poor, committing theft in the face of poverty and want, are booked by law.

Cheating is practiced in a variety of ways. Fertile brains find countless methods to cheat their associates. The merchants have various ways of cheating their clients. The lawyer is equally successful. The medical man commands many ways to defraud his patients.

Gulika is considered the son of Saturn and his position is to be carefully fixed in the Zodiac. The Yoga given above refers to persons who will be the victims of fraud but the same combination can also be extended to apply to those who perpetrate the deeds.

~~ B. V. Raman, Three Hundred Important Combinations