It turned out that the sun never really set on Charles and Camilla’s brief romance.

Rather symbolically, Britain’s most controversial royal wedding wouldn’t be consummated so seamlessly.

Camilla and Charles' long pending nuptials hit another delay with the death of Pope John Paul II.

Charles and Camilla smiling

Back in Windsor, the last-minute change-up had coordinators on their feet.

At least, that wasn’t the whole reason.

As Independent.ie quoted, Camilla described her wedding as “two old people getting hitched.”

Camilla and Charles smiling

But there was more to the matter than met the eye.

She was allegedly quoted telling a friend, “I am not able to go.

But queens can be rule breakers, too.

Camilla walking with Charles

At a wedding, that color is typically reserved for the most important person there: the bride.

“I was halfway down in the car before I realized,” she said, as quoted byNewsweek.

She did offer her daughter-in-law her sympathies though.

King Charles smiling at Camilla

“We thought that it was gonna cause more harm than good,” Harry said.

In retrospect, there were ample signals to suggest what Harry voiced.

Experts have also deduced signs of it in Charles and Camilla’s wedding portraits.

Charles and Camilla at civil wedding

The monarch’s address was reportedly delivered before an 800-strong audience present at Windsor Castle and was characteristically funny.

Charles and Camilla family wedding portrait

Charles and Camilla’s wedding portrait

Charles, Camilla, and Queen Elizabeth

Prince Harry and Prince William

Charles, Camilla, and Queen Elizabeth

Charles and Camilla laughing