{"id":297286,"date":"2026-07-16T02:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297286\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T02:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T02:52:15","slug":"queen-camilla-addresses-how-her-family-coped-with-a-silent-thief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/297286\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Camilla Addresses How Her Family Coped With a “Silent Thief”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fresh off a lighthearted visit to the famous Heywood Hill bookshop<\/a>, Queen Camilla<\/a>\u2019s week took a more solemn turn on Wednesday, July 15 as she shared some rare comments about her personal grief. The Queen<\/a> hosted a reception in the gardens of Clarence House<\/a> to mark the 40th anniversary of her patronage the Royal Osteoporosis Society, and she opened up about the pain her family faced following her mother\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

Queen Camilla<\/a> has been involved with the charity since 1994, telling the guests at Clarence House why the organization was so close to her heart. \u201cThat same year, my dear mother had died as a result of osteoporosis,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The disease results in weakened bones, making people highly susceptible to sudden, unexpected fractures. Queen Camilla’s mother, Rosalind Shand, died from the disease at the age of 72, and The Queen’s maternal grandmother also died from osteoporosis in 1986.<\/p>\n

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The Queen gives a speech to mark the 40th anniversary of the Royal Osteoporosis Society on Wednesday, July 15.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn those bad old days, osteoporosis was seldom discussed, rarely diagnosed and usually attributed to old women with so-called \u2018Dowagers\u2019 humps,\u2019\u201d Camilla shared. The Queen admitted that she and her family \u201chad little or no understanding of this devastating disease\u201d at the time, and became \u201cdetermined to discover more about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As patron of the Royal Osteoporosis Society, Queen Camilla<\/a> has raised awareness for the disease and celebrated its wins, but noted that there is still much work to be done. Today, \u201chalf of all women and one out of every five men over the age of 50 will suffer fractures as a result of osteoporosis,\u201d as The Queen said in her speech.<\/p>\n

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Her Majesty shared how her family \u201cfailed to comprehend how our mother could suffer so much pain, lose inches in height and yet find no available treatment from the doctors,\u201d but said that the National Osteoporosis Society, which later became the Royal Osteoporosis Society, made her family feel \u201cfar from alone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Queen Camilla attends a reception for the Royal Osteoporosis Society.<\/p>\n

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It’s a disease Her Majesty referred to as \u201ca silent thief hiding in plain sight,\u201d noting that osteoporosis \u201cwreaks its havoc deep inside our bodies until, too late, we realize that the damage has been done.\u201d<\/p>\n

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However, there is hope. Although Queen Camilla admitted a cure isn’t in sight just yet, she said \u201cwe are well on the way,\u201d adding, \u201cTogether, we can\u2014 and we will\u2014see the end of osteoporosis forever.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh off a lighthearted visit to the famous Heywood Hill bookshop, Queen Camilla\u2019s week took a more solemn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-297286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}