Camilla Opens Up About Her Mother's Struggle with Osteoporosis in a New Video
This week Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall took part in a handful of engagements to support cause close to her heart: osteoporosis. The Duchess, who has served as the President of the Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) since 2001, commemorated World Osteoporosis Day in a video message to the ROS and the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF).
As she explains in the video (above), Camilla has been passionate about this "silent disease" for decades, after her mother died 26 years ago after suffering from it. "In those dark old days it was seldom discussed, rarely diagnosed and usually attributed to old women with so-called 'dowager’s humps,'" she says. "My family and I knew nothing about it and were at a loss to know how we could help alleviate the terrible pain she suffered."
She continued: "But how times have changed—today huge strides have been made in the treatment and research into osteoporosis, and we now know how it can be prevented and how we can support those who are living with it."
It's been a busy week for the Duchess. On Monday, Camilla also spoke with the next recipient of the Duchess of Cornwall Award, Christine Sharp, a longtime ROS volunteer; on Tuesday, she hosted a tea for the ROS; and on Wednesday, she visited London's Pepper Pot Centre, an organization that supports a community of elderly African and Caribbean people. At the latter, she helped prepare meals, for which she'd brought her own brownies—and debuted a chic new leopard print face mask. All in a week's work.
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