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On the latest episode of Palace Confidential, royal experts Robert Hardman and Rebecca English sit down to answer questions about the monarchy you've always wanted to ask.

One question on the minds of several viewers was why the King and Queen so often choose to spend their weekends apart.

When the royal couple married in 2005, Camilla was determined to keep Ray Mill House in Wiltshire, the home she bought after her first marriage ended, as a private bolthole. Ever since, the Queen has often chosen to spend her weekends there, away from the King.

On the latest episode of Palace Confidential , royal experts Robert Hardman and Rebecca English sit down to answer questions about the monarchy you've always wanted to ask

One question on the minds of several viewers was why the King and Queen so often choose to spend their weekends apart

The Daily Mail's royal editor English explained that the arrangement simply works for the couple, who lived apart for long stretches before their marriage.

'They live quite independent lives, and I don't think it affects their relationship at all,' she said.

'[Ray Mill] is a real bolthole for her. It's very informal. She has the children over. She has the grandchildren over, whereas the King can potter around his gardens doing his dry stone walling at Highgrove. He can do his own things.

'I can understand why it looks a little odd to people, but it actually works for them. Often when you go on a royal tour, if we're landing at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, you'll often see two cars turn up and they'll give each other a kiss.

'It just works for them and I have learnt not to judge at all.'

Hardman, who travelled extensively with the then Prince Charles during his years as a royal reporter, agreed. He added that Ray Mill offers Camilla's family a sort of 'decompression' from the formality of royal life.

'Her grandchildren need to have somewhere that they feel is theirs, where they can run around,' he began.

'If her grandchildren want to run around in Windsor or at the Palace, it's like: "Oh don't knock that vase over, you can't kick a ball in there!"

'When they're at Granny's house, it's Granny's house. Everyone can put on jeans and run around. They don't have to call anybody ma'am or Royal Highness. It's a sort of decompression, I think.'

When the royal couple married in 2005, Camilla was determined to keep Ray Mill House in Wiltshire, the home she bought after her first marriage ended, as a private bolthole

English shared a glimpse of Queen Camilla's life at Ray Mill to give a sense of how it differs from palace life.

'I remember once during the Covid lockdown, doing an interview with the Queen, well, obviously Duchess of Cornwall as she was then, about a particular issue that they wanted to get out there. I think it was about domestic abuse and domestic violence,' she said.

'The call was put through to me via the press office, it was clear that she was at Ray Mill, and there was obviously a horse clip-clopping nearby because the dog started barking, and I could hear her saying: "Excuse me, shut up!"

'So it kind of made you realise this really is a homely environment for them, away from the formality and pressures of palaces.'

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