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Camilla to be Queen

470 replies

Thanksfor · 05/02/2022 22:04

I think I’m happy with this (not that’s it’s any of my business). She’s clearly made Charles very happy and has fitted into the family well.
Good for her, it’s deserved.

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MrsRugbyMa · 06/02/2022 09:32

I prefer a queen to a king, girl power and all. I'm all for Camilla, she seems steadfast, resilient, down to earth, not flashy and uncorrupted. I like her.

stripeyflowers · 06/02/2022 10:01

@Thesearmsofmine

Good. I find her fairly likeable, have heard her speak about a number of her causes including domestic abuse and she came across very well.

Some people will always hate her because they hold Diana up as some kind of amazing woman but she was no angel and it is very easy to hold someone in high esteem when they are no longer around.

I agree with this.
iklboo · 06/02/2022 10:10

Disgusting. I would vote for a republic long before I accept Camilla as Queen of England

What actual difference does it make to you?

DaisyChains3 · 06/02/2022 10:18

@Lockdownbear

Do you think she would have got engaged to either of those men at 19, and they were 32 if they'd only met 7 times?
No. But she was a naive 19 year old girl who had never had a boyfriend before. In her circles you married someone on a par with yourself, or higher. Not necessarily for money, but because it was just the done thing. Same expectations etc. Do you think she is to be blamed for choosing someone she looked up to and respected, and who she thought would take care of her? None of us have much sense at 19. I certainly didn't. Charles at 32 should have been the more responsible person.
GreenFingeredNell15 · 06/02/2022 10:22

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blyn72 · 06/02/2022 10:39

Stop speculating - and whatever you think of Andrew, he is not a paedo.

Sparklingbrook · 06/02/2022 10:41

@GreenFingeredNell15 you might want to read the thread.

Puzzledandpissedoff · 06/02/2022 11:36

The issue around marrying in church was purely a religious one, nothing to do with the monarchy

Given that the monarch's the Head of the CofE I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that

How embarrassing though - or at least it might be if Charles was capable of embarrassment - for mummy to have to step in with her "sincere wishes" over his appalling choices; first the Commonwealth and now this

MrsWinters · 06/02/2022 11:39

Brilliant. She looks like good fun, the sort you’d like to share a G&T with.

JudgeJ · 06/02/2022 12:12

@DappledThings

All of which makes me wonder is the Queen quite well? and preparing us for the transition sooner rather than later............. She's 95! Of course everyone's prepared for the transition to be imminent.
When I read her statement it almost seem to read as a farewell message, I do hope not and at least she sees the Platinum events in Summer, anything less would be too ironic.
Lockdownbear · 06/02/2022 12:19

Do you think she is to be blamed for choosing someone she looked up to and respected, and who she thought would take care of her? None of us have much sense at 19. I certainly didn't. Charles at 32 should have been the more responsible person.

I don't necessarily blame her, she was very young and nieve thought she was set for life.
I really blame her family for encouraging it. They saw £££, and let her walk into a nightmare.
If he was just Charles the navy officer, everyone would have said - hang fire, your too young, you barely know him, why the rush!

Charles just saw a womb, with no baggage to produce an heir, and he got one well enough with do the job of his escort. The pressure was on, he was encouraged to get a ring on her finger asap and down to business.
Neither family was blameless. In the disaster that was their marriage of convience.

Marcipex · 06/02/2022 12:43

People say ‘for £££’ but she was Lady Diana Spencer, not ruddy Cinderella.

Lockdownbear · 06/02/2022 12:45

@Marcipex

People say ‘for £££’ but she was Lady Diana Spencer, not ruddy Cinderella.
Why do you think her family encouraged it then?
UserBot9to5 · 06/02/2022 12:50

@Marcipex

People say ‘for £££’ but she was Lady Diana Spencer, not ruddy Cinderella.
Yes, her family home was Althorp!! One of her older sisters had dated Charles. She was the owner of the flat she was living in before she married Charles. She was raised with that knowledge that she was the sort of woman Charles could marry. I don't think she did it for money.
UserBot9to5 · 06/02/2022 12:51

Her father didn't see anything as crass as money, he saw his 'line' mixed with royalty.

ClariceQuiff · 06/02/2022 12:52

@UserBot9to5

Her father didn't see anything as crass as money, he saw his 'line' mixed with royalty.
This - it was status, not money.
emuloc · 06/02/2022 12:52

She did not need to marry him for money. She had plenty of family money herself. Hardly a pauper, was she!

UserBot9to5 · 06/02/2022 12:54

Do you think she is to be blamed for choosing someone she looked up to and respected, and who she thought would take care of her? None of us have much sense at 19. I certainly didn't. Charles at 32 should have been the more responsible person.

Agree. Even if she'd understood that they didn't really have a relationship, it would have taken an enormous amount of confidence and a really strong sense of herself to turn him down. To me this seems really obvious and I'm always surprised that people don't understand that it would have taken a stronger, older version of herself to understand that she could actually turn him down. I think she hoped it'd all work out though.

By the time she knew about Camilla, her face was on the tea towels as her sisters reminded her.

emuloc · 06/02/2022 12:56

Diana had a royal bloodline link before she married.

Sparklingbrook · 06/02/2022 12:56

When I read her statement it almost seem to read as a farewell message

I thought it read as an announcement to coincide with the jubilee and to advise everyone what would happen. I don't see anything 'farewell' about it.

Mommabear20 · 06/02/2022 13:13

Charles should not be King, therefore Camilla should not be Queen.

If Her Majestys uncle had to abdicate in order to marry a divorcee, then being that Charles and Camilla are both divorcees, they should not be in line to the throne!

Marcipex · 06/02/2022 13:15

@Lockdownbear I really don’t know.
She was really not very brainy and perhaps it seemed a lovely safe arrangement for her.

Monopolyiscrap · 06/02/2022 13:29

Camilla and Charles could not marry as Camilla was not a virgin.
The Royal Family then demanded this for the heir.
It is why Charles HAD to marry a naive young woman. Only a naive young woman would have met this criteria.

Monopolyiscrap · 06/02/2022 13:30

So if it hadn't have been Diana, it would have simply been a different naive young woman.

Marcipex · 06/02/2022 13:43

@Monopolyiscrap yes