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'Queen' Camilla

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Replitad · 04/04/2023 23:12

I wouldn't have called myself a republican before now but I think the 'Queen' Camilla thing has tipped me over the edge.

Pretty audacious considering their history and I think a lot of the public won't agree. I certainly won't be celebrating or even watching coronation.

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TheObstinateHeadstrongGirl · 07/04/2023 22:17

Opinionsinteresting2me · 07/04/2023 22:15

And Camilla heads up a charity on domestic abuse! She should know all about it - she condoned and encouraged abuse of Diana for Charles and Camilla's own gain! And gain she has now got! Using taxpayers' money for their own luxury lifestyles.

Did your mate Diana tell you this?

You really do sound ridiculous and deranged.

There’s no evidence Charles abused Diana. We know they both had affairs. We know he had little patience for her unhinged melodrama. Not wanting to be married to someone isn’t abuse.

Mooshamoo · 07/04/2023 23:02

Charles is not above being questioned on his actions.

On a separate note. Why was Charles such good friends with Jimmy Saville?

Mooshamoo · 07/04/2023 23:03

CarolinaInTheMorning · 07/04/2023 18:36

Diana wasn't a teenager when she married.

But she was a teenager when she was dating him.

Mooshamoo · 07/04/2023 23:07

I'm 39. I was just thinking if I got engaged to a 19 year old man. It's definitely a big age gap.

Opinionsinteresting2me · 07/04/2023 23:07

Charles accused her of unhinged melodrama because she went to pieces when she found out that Charles and Camilla had deliberately chosen her out to be the mother of his heirs and not because he actually wanted to marry her. He had never wanted her. What woman would not be upset by that happening to them. Then Charles left Diana lonely in the palace while he and Camilla carried on the way they had wanted to all along and she was supposed to quietly accept it. Not abuse?

DiddlySquat52 · 07/04/2023 23:12

OP, I agree with you. She's a divorcee, she shouldn't be Queen, especially as they cheated during his first marriage.

His Uncle wasn't allowed to be King because he was with a divorcee. She should not be Queen.

DiddlySquat52 · 07/04/2023 23:14

Every time I see pictures of them, the first think I think about is what they did to William and Harry's mother.

Rosula · 07/04/2023 23:31

DiddlySquat52 · 07/04/2023 23:14

Every time I see pictures of them, the first think I think about is what they did to William and Harry's mother.

You need to get over it. It was 40 years ago, and given her, shall we say, active love life, she certainly did.

TheObstinateHeadstrongGirl · 07/04/2023 23:33

Mooshamoo · 07/04/2023 23:07

I'm 39. I was just thinking if I got engaged to a 19 year old man. It's definitely a big age gap.

20 years is a big age gap, well done - but what’s the relevance to Queen Camilla?

Rosula · 07/04/2023 23:33

DiddlySquat52 · 07/04/2023 23:12

OP, I agree with you. She's a divorcee, she shouldn't be Queen, especially as they cheated during his first marriage.

His Uncle wasn't allowed to be King because he was with a divorcee. She should not be Queen.

Please tell me you don't think that no divorcé has ever been monarch.

Rosula · 07/04/2023 23:36

Opinionsinteresting2me · 07/04/2023 23:07

Charles accused her of unhinged melodrama because she went to pieces when she found out that Charles and Camilla had deliberately chosen her out to be the mother of his heirs and not because he actually wanted to marry her. He had never wanted her. What woman would not be upset by that happening to them. Then Charles left Diana lonely in the palace while he and Camilla carried on the way they had wanted to all along and she was supposed to quietly accept it. Not abuse?

No, not abuse. If it was all true, it was shitty behaviour. You are really being quite offensive to victims of genuine abuse by making up your own definition of that term.

Rosula · 07/04/2023 23:41

Possiblynotever · 07/04/2023 19:29

@IIcedPurple ok, you think that someone in its 30s who gets engaged to a teenager, marrying her for the sole purpose of having an heir, having another woman on the side (before and after, if I understand it correctly) is fit to be both king and head of a church and the lady in question a queen.
But I do not think the CofE agrees, and when they wed it was in a civil ceremony.
Maybe the CofE sees a problem with the whole behaviour.
Or maybe not, and everything is allowed.

As they will both be crowned in a C of E church by a C of E Archbishop, with numerous other high officials of the C of E participating, something tells me the C of E doesn't have too much of a problem with them.

Viviennemary · 07/04/2023 23:42

Henry VIII I suppose. Eleanor of Aquitaine but she got her previous marriage annulled. I expect there were others. Can't think of any.

AskMeMore · 08/04/2023 00:34

The C of E do not have a choice whatever the personal thoughts of senior officials. If they refused to accept Charles and Camilla being crowned it would be a constitutional crisis.

TheObstinateHeadstrongGirl · 08/04/2023 00:44

Opinionsinteresting2me · 07/04/2023 23:07

Charles accused her of unhinged melodrama because she went to pieces when she found out that Charles and Camilla had deliberately chosen her out to be the mother of his heirs and not because he actually wanted to marry her. He had never wanted her. What woman would not be upset by that happening to them. Then Charles left Diana lonely in the palace while he and Camilla carried on the way they had wanted to all along and she was supposed to quietly accept it. Not abuse?

What was it like being Diana’s close confidante?

The Crown is fiction you know

She knew exactly why she was entering the RF. Ot was clearly a loveless marriage, they both knew that. How infantilising to make out like Diana was starry eyed then really shocked to her she was married for her virginity and her looks 🙄 next up: Charles is horrified they only reason Diana touched him with a barge pole is because he was a Prince, and not for his sparkling personality and obvious compatibility.

TheObstinateHeadstrongGirl · 08/04/2023 00:45

DiddlySquat52 · 07/04/2023 23:12

OP, I agree with you. She's a divorcee, she shouldn't be Queen, especially as they cheated during his first marriage.

His Uncle wasn't allowed to be King because he was with a divorcee. She should not be Queen.

Wallis Simpson had 2 living ex-husbands, and Edward VIII was a reigning monarch with Nazi ideologies. It was about SO much more than being a divorcee. She did t even know he was going to abdicate and was reportedly horrified when he did.

TheObstinateHeadstrongGirl · 08/04/2023 00:46

DiddlySquat52 · 07/04/2023 23:14

Every time I see pictures of them, the first think I think about is what they did to William and Harry's mother.

Do you think about Will Carling’s wife when you see pictures of Diana?

Justdontbejudgy · 08/04/2023 00:46

Replitad · 04/04/2023 23:12

I wouldn't have called myself a republican before now but I think the 'Queen' Camilla thing has tipped me over the edge.

Pretty audacious considering their history and I think a lot of the public won't agree. I certainly won't be celebrating or even watching coronation.

This is what tips you into being a 'Republican '? OK.

TheObstinateHeadstrongGirl · 08/04/2023 00:46

Rosula · 07/04/2023 23:41

As they will both be crowned in a C of E church by a C of E Archbishop, with numerous other high officials of the C of E participating, something tells me the C of E doesn't have too much of a problem with them.

Well he is their boss after all 🤣

TheObstinateHeadstrongGirl · 08/04/2023 00:49

AskMeMore · 08/04/2023 00:34

The C of E do not have a choice whatever the personal thoughts of senior officials. If they refused to accept Charles and Camilla being crowned it would be a constitutional crisis.

And yet they didn’t have a CofE wedding

AskMeMore · 08/04/2023 01:47

Yes they had a civil ceremony. Which rather suggests senior figures in the C of E do have an issue with their marriage.

YetMoreNewBeginnings · 08/04/2023 03:09

AskMeMore · 08/04/2023 01:47

Yes they had a civil ceremony. Which rather suggests senior figures in the C of E do have an issue with their marriage.

They had a C of E blessing right after.

I’d suggest the issue was far more with public opinion than the church.

Otherwise they’d have just had a Scottish church wedding like Anne.

MissTrip82 · 08/04/2023 06:14

It doesn’t matter if Charles is fit to be king or if camila is fit to be queen.

That’s how monarchy works.

How are monarchists confused by this? It’s the system you endorse.

Possiblynotever · 08/04/2023 07:05

Not my queen. Not my king.

DiddlySquat52 · 08/04/2023 08:51

Not my Queen. Not my King.

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