Like the game, the crime remained covered up for decades, with Camilla only confessing on the eve of Annabel’s wedding. Today, the sisters who were born 18 months apart are so close they talk “most days”. But not all is forgiven. Camilla poses for a photo shoot as part of an ITV documentary series about her fun side When Annabelle, who married Simon Elliott in 1972, is asked if she has forgiven her sister, she says: ‘Absolutely not. It’s still rolling to this day.’ The childhood memory is just one of many surprising anecdotes about the future queen consort to feature in an ITV documentary this week. We learn that Camilla used to enjoy “hiding a sneaky doll” with former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson (a vice she gave up “decades ago”), is known to tell “dangerous and naughty jokes” and is fond of ” refreshing’ cold- water that swims along the English coast. But perhaps one of the most surprising revelations about the woman who will one day be crowned Queen is that she has a secret love for garden gnomes. “No place like the gnome!” she says. “Actually the Prince does at Highgrove too – he’s got a leprechaun hidden.” To mark the Duchess of Cornwall’s 75th birthday next Sunday, an ITV film crew shadowed Camilla as she edited Country Life magazine and toured the country. The Duchess of Cornwall has fronted the new issue of Country Life – and her cover photo wasn’t taken by Kate Middleton Country Life Magazine of the Duchess of Cornwall’s dogs Bluebell and Beth appearing on the front page of Country Life, wearing her pearl necklaces A rare interview at Highgrove, the home near Tetbury in Gloucestershire she shares with Prince Charles, shows a more relaxed Camilla walking the grounds with her Jack Russells. When the Country Life staff asked which photographer Camilla would like to choose for her cover shoot, the answer had them going wild at first. Mark Hedges, editor of Country Life, said: “When we first met in January and we were sitting there, I said, “Obviously we need a cover photo. Do you have a preference for photographers?’ He immediately said, “Kathrina.” And none of us could think who he meant. And then some lamps began to light.’ The Duchess of Cornwall is pictured at a farm in Monmouthshire to mark Wales Week, July 6 CAMILLA meant, of course, the Duchess of Cambridge, who is a keen amateur photographer known for her official portraits of her children. Kate took Camilla’s photos at Ray Mill, her country retreat in Lacock, Wiltshire. “It was very relaxed,” recalls Camilla. ‘[It was] very kind the duchess of cambridge – [she] she came with her camera. She’s an extremely good photographer and everything was very relaxed, there wasn’t a lot of hair and make-up – it was just done in the garden with lots of laughs. It was a great way to do it.” There are also plenty of laughs to be had in the upcoming special edition of Country Life as the Duchess reveals her sense of mischief. Staff at the 125-year-old publication, which has historically featured a full-page photo of the first-ever ‘pearl girls’, quickly picked up on Camilla’s quick wit when they saw she had dressed her two female Jack Russells – Beth and Bluebell. – in pearl necklaces to stand in as the “girls with pearls”. Camilla promoted the National Literacy Trust’s library alliance campaign in Wales last week Later in the documentary, when asked if it was true that Camilla was known to tell “the odd slightly naughty joke”, Sarah Troughton, one of the Queen’s cousins ​​and a friend of Camilla’s, not only confirms the rumor, she goes one better. “Oh, too risky [jokes]I would say, as well as naughty.’ The documentary reveals the Duchess of Cornwall as we’ve never seen her before, while also confirming everything many people may have suspected for a long time. Camilla shares the Queen’s love of horses and dogs, her husband’s passion for the outdoors and gardening and is known to have the odd sneaky cigarette. As she puts it, it’s her British sensibility that you have to “take a deep breath and get on with it” that will endear her to audiences. So while much of her work is about supporting the Prince of Wales in his endeavours, the documentary puts Camilla in the spotlight in her own right. Charles makes only a cameo appearance and very few mentions in the programme, which airs on Wednesday, apart from appearing at Clarence House to oversee the proposed pages for Camilla’s Country Life edit. She also wrote about him for her special edition, saying: “It’s not easy to write about your husband, I’ve been through a lot of pencils.” The decision to allow a documentary crew to shadow the Duchess is part of a Palace-backed PR effort to establish the Duchess of Cornwall as a worthy future Queen Consort. In addition to this week’s documentary, Camilla has appeared in Vogue magazine and, as this latest schedule shows, guest-edited Country Life. Camilla (left), pictured aged four in 1952, pictured with sister Annabel (right), aged three It’s a campaign firmly supported by the Queen, who in February used her Accession Day message for her 70th year on the throne to back Camilla, saying it was her “sincere desire” for her daughter-in-law to be known as Queen Consort . ‘when the time comes’. As The Mail on Sunday revealed in February, detailed plans are in place for Camilla to be crowned alongside her husband when he becomes king. The couple will also embark on an extensive UK tour ahead of the Coronation. Camilla has gone to great lengths to fend off the mistress narrative that lingered for years after Charles’ divorce from Diana, Princess of Wales. While this documentary is largely positive, the controversy is a part of the story that cannot be ignored. The filmmakers mischievously point out that Alice Keppel, Camilla’s great-grandmother, was the beloved mistress of King Edward VII, Prince Charles’ great-grandfather. The Duchess of Cambridge (right) gets Camilla’s cover for Country Life issue And one charity event organizer is seen saying: “I’m a divorced woman and I know what that journey is like. I’ve experienced some hostility and some resentment – nothing like this level, but I know how hard it is to maintain dignity and that attitude and that presence over the decades it’s taken.” Over the years, Camilla has also had to dispel allegations of laziness from former Clarence House aide Mark Bolland, who once wrote in a Sunday Times op-ed: “I love Camilla very much, but she is monumentally lazy (with the best possible way). It would be difficult to make such claims against the Duchess today. Camilla recently returned from Rwanda where she visited the mass grave of the victims of the genocide. Earlier this year she traveled to Canada on a whirlwind trip to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee year. And more trips abroad are planned. Following her promotion to the Privy Council in 2016, she will be at Charles’ side when he is crowned King. The Queen showed further favor this year when Camilla was made a Royal Lady of the Garter. But beyond any positive press the Palace can garner, sources there say the success of Camilla’s transformation can be attributed to her own personality. As a royal source told The Mail on Sunday: “PR for the Duchess of Cornwall is easy to some extent because the raw material, if I may call it that, is good. “She’s smart, she’s smart, she’s funny, she’s good for Charles, and when people see that, they can’t help but like her.” No doubt many in the Palace will be hoping that showing the public more of Camilla’s personality and background will help establish the Duchess as a likeable presence. Her privileged childhood included summer holidays spent ‘rolling down the hills’ at her grandparents’ home, Hall Place, a 12-bedroom country estate in the heart of Hampshire. The gorgeous country pile features in the upcoming Country Life and the accompanying documentary shows the Duchess returning to the property. It was here that Annabelle’s teddy bear met its demise. So when the family place was sold, the teddy bear – ‘Tiddy Bar’ – remained. Camilla’s sister Annabelle is seen in the documentary saying: “[She] It only dawned on me a month before I got married that he had actually buried it.’ The Duchess admits: “My sister and I had a bit of a fight and I buried him. It was sibling rivalry – yes, Tiddy Bar. He had a very happy resting place in the rose garden.’ But not all stories about Camilla’s early years hold up. When asked if there were ponies at her grandmother’s house, the Duchess laughs and says: “We never had any ponies. [at Hall House] though Giles Bradreth will swear he met me there in my breeches smoking a Woodbine.’ As the ITV program shows, some of her fans come from unexpected places. Jeremy Clarkson, the former Top Gear presenter who has been to a farm in the Cotswolds called Diddly Squat, was chosen by Camilla to appear. Camilla says of the presenter, who presents the Clarkson’s Farm series: “He made people realize how hard farming is. I think some people see farming as cows sitting in a field on a beautiful day, and they don’t realize the work and the difficulties behind it.” However, the Duchess may have second thoughts about his inclusion when she watches the programme. Clarkson reveals of her: “I think we get along really well. Um, we used to…