Well they’ve had the big day! And guess what! It was eclipsed by the Pope’s death but still they carried it off! Spot on! Now let’s look at the wedding chart and see what, if anything, it can tell us about what lies ahead for these two comfortable old souls.

Well a wedding chart can be read, I believe, similar to a natal chart, it’s just the interpretations will be for a couples relationship as opposed to an individual’s life pattern. But the pattern is still the same, it's just interpreted for two as opposed to one.

First house, ruled by who else, Leo the lion, the sign of royalty. Leo is so expansive in this chart it goes on to encompass the sign on the second house. So both 1st and 2nd houses are ruled by the Sun and the Sun is conjunct to the Midheaven and in the 10th house of career and how others view us.

The life and soul of this marriage is royalty and their sense of what they value and where their actual monies come from is all spelled out by the ruler, the Sun. Would Camilla have stuck by her man as long as she did if he wasn't royal? Maybe, who knows. But the trappings of the marriage are wrapped in the purple robes of royalty, first, last, always, and royalty is what they know and were brought up on, since Camilla was very much to the manor born and bred.

In addition, the ascendant of both Charles and Camilla is conjunct the wedding chart ascendant, so they themselves are very committed to each other and to the marriage itself. There can be no doubt about that whatsoever.

The third house of communications, both between themselves, and, (since this is the chart of a very public couple), with the world around them, through newspapers, TV, radio, etc. is ruled by Mercury. Mercury is in the 9th house and is retrograde in Aries. Will this couple be defined by their past entanglements or be allowed to move forward? Perhaps not, especially in the media and in the foreign press.

Mercury retro makes a square to Pluto and trines the ascendant, along with a close sextile to Chiron, the wounded healer. Interesting combo. With Pluto placed in the 5th of children and speculation and love affairs it could be that the children of both will have a hard time being heard by them and vice versa. Some lingering resentments may be found in the children which they may not express but keep buried. Pluto does deal with the underground, hidden side of things. Since Uranus rules the marriage house itself, the 7th, and is also the ruler of the 8th of sex, other people's money and death, and is placed in that house, in the sign of Pisces, it would appear that this marriage will last until one of the partners dies. Truly a marriage until death do you part. Considering they have been together for 35 years that isn’t a hard concept to grasp.

In addition, Uranus ruling the 7th and 8th and placed in the 8th would mean the relationship, the marriage itself, would change abruptly and quickly due to the issues of the 8th which are, as said, sex, other people’s money and death. When Charles becomes king upon the death of Queen Elizabeth will that change things between his royal self and Camilla? This chart says it might. How and in what way I can’t say but we may have clue in the aspects of Uranus, which are minor, to say the least. Uranus is inconjunct the ascendant, the sense the couple has of themselves. That means Uranus may make them feel a little off kilter at times, slightly out of whack, not quite on the same page, as they always have been. Perhaps as Charles assumes his royal personage Camilla will feel a bit left out? It's hard to believe but it's a thought. The only other aspect Uranus makes is a semi-square to Venus. Again, a sense that emotionally there may be some irritation and frustration, that once forced more and more into the real world, and having to deal with it, they may find themselves not as much in the "oh darling tell me about your terrible day dealing with the bloody press" as in "we need to be at the royal engagement for the preservation of small egret ducks at 930 am sharp". Or something of that sort. Still, with all the placements in the 10th house, this marriage was as much for show as for themselves, and as much to consolidate Charles’ position in anticipation of his taking over the family business.

Nevertheless, Camilla seemed radiant on her special day, it's what she's wanted forever, and I hope it brings her the happiness she thinks it will, and it just might, you never know.