Dates differ as to when, exactly, Charles started seeing Camilla again. Caroline Graham's 1995 book "Camilla and Charles: The Love Story" suggested that they rekindled their affair in 1980, when she was a shoulder to lean on following the death of his great-uncle, Lord Mountbatten. Charles himself, in a documentary in 1994, claimed that he and Camilla were only "very great friend[s]" until 1986, when his marriage to Diana "became irretrievably broken down, us both having tried," per The New York Times. By the mid-1980s, however, pretty much everyone agrees that the Charles-Diana marriage was in tatters and that he was having an affair with Camilla.