A scene from “Unfinished Business”

Prince Charles: May I just say how wonderful it is to see you all here, and thank you all so much for coming. And particularly, I want to thank my darling aunt, Princess Margaret, and Camilla's father, Major Shand. Bruce, as many of you know, is a wine merchant, so he's better placed than anyone else here to tell us what it is to improve with age. As one gets older, one starts to realize what one really values in life. One's health. One's family. And one's friends. The people who enrich our lives and who we can't bear to be without. Well, tonight, ladies and gentlemen, we're all here to celebrate a person who, I'm afraid, I can't bear to be without. Darling, all of us here can testify to your quite exceptional warmth and generosity. But, again and again, I've been struck by something else. And that is your heroism. Because over the years, there have been many people out there, who know nothing about you, who've been quite staggeringly unkind and unfair. Now, the easy thing for you to do, the understandable thing, would have been to walk away. But you haven't. You've stuck with it. And you've stuck with me. And for that, I am eternally grateful. I wanted tonight to read an excerpt from a famous letter. It's a story of ardent young lovers challenged by adversity who have a second chance of happiness later in life. It's from Persuasion, and it's Captain Wentworth's letter. "Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant." Camilla, for you alone, I think and plan.