Ozzy Osbourne: Funeral held in Birmingham
The Black Sabbath singer's body will travel by hearse through the city on Wednesday, local time, on the way to his private funeral to be attended by family and friends.
The event, funded by the Osbourne family, is a chance for the city to pay its respects to one of its 'greatest legends' the Lord Mayor of Birmingham, Zafar Iqbal, said this week.
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According to reports, a devastated Charles tried to stop Camilla from marrying Parker Bowles, but the pair remained friends. As the former lovers stayed close, Charles began courting Lady Diana Spencer in 1980. 'By the time Charles married Diana, supposedly, Camilla's physical relationship with him had ceased,' said Fordwich. 'However, their emotional bond continued, for which both were derided. The tabloids termed her 'the other woman.'' And it was easy for Diana to see that Camilla continued to play an important role in the life of the man she was going to marry. 'At first, Diana professed to be very much in love with Charles but expressed to many she felt foolish and jealous once she fully grasped his emotional attachment to Camilla,' Fordwich explained. 'The press, both sides of the family and even her Spencer sisters made it clear to her that she simply couldn't back out of the wedding once her face was 'on the tea towels.' … The entire nation and the world were giddy with excitement regarding their imminent wedding. 'On her wedding day … the public speculated her sleepless look was due to wedding nerves. No one was aware of her knowing of Camilla's place in Charles' heart, which rendered her distraught. 'Diana later described feeling she was 'the luckiest girl in the world,' but she also knew Charles' true affections lay elsewhere,' Fordwich continued. 'Her emotional turmoil would damage not only the rest of their marriage but, to this day, it has ramifications in Prince Harry's behaviour, given his deep-rooted resentment of Camilla as well as his mistrust of the media.' Camilla made the royal wedding's guest list, likely due to her husband's role as the Commanding Officer of the Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment, People magazine reported. While several reports claimed Camilla wore white during the ceremony, catching Diana's eye, royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams clarified to Fox News Digital that she wore a 'pale grey dress with a veiled pillbox hat.' Problems only worsened during Charles and Diana's honeymoon. 'From the start, the public preferred the princess, though privately she was angst-ridden and bulimic,' said Fitzwilliams. 'It does seem that fate almost inexorably decreed that, once it had been set in motion, it was impossible to call the wedding off. Diana's discovery of a bracelet Charles had bought for Camilla before the wedding worsened her suspicions that she had a dangerous rival.' 'The divide between Charles and Diana was exacerbated by the gulf between their respective ages, their completely different interests, as well as their worldviews,' added Fordwich. 'Even on their honeymoon, they reportedly had some rather major personality clashes. Later, there was the lurid scandal of 1989 that exposed Charles and Camilla's ongoing affair. It shocked the public and irreparably damaged Charles' reputation.' 'The British public hasn't forgotten,' Fordwich added. Charles and Diana separated in 1992. In 1995, Diana gave a bombshell interview to BBC's Panorama during which she declared, 'Well, there were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.' Their divorce was finalised in 1996.
