Prince Charles's alleged lovechild

[Applemayjune]

Did you see the story in the news that a man in Australia has said that he is Prince Charles 's and Camilla's lovechild. Apparently security are watching him as he said that he is going to try to go and see them

This is lighthearted, so don't come at me. It's just in the news today, and was wondering what are your thoughts?

I'm not referring to your post.
Rather the OP's claim about the AoC.

reports say there were no photos of Camilla around the time she would have been heavily pregnant

Which would have been the 1960s - a time when photographs weren't being constantly taken as they are now, they were only taken on occasions - high days and holidays.

Camilla was an aristocrat but she wasn't a celebrity in those days, there'd be no reason for any photographs of her taken in 1965/6 to have ever reached the public domain, and it was quite possible in the pre-digital era for anyone non-famous to go from one year to the next without having their photo taken,

So do many many thousands of us

I admit I don’t know that. Just that when me and my husband married we had to “legitimise” his birth at the registry office.

Why would a rich privileged girl like Camilla even go through with this pregnancy if it were true. If Charles was the father I have no doubt that the pregnancy would have been terminated not given up for adoption.

He says he was not given info about his true parents, but people weren’t back then. Hence programmes such as ‘ Long Lost Families’ exist.

I’ve read up about him before, and I don’t think it’s true. My son resembled Prince William as a toddler - no link at all.

Also I saw a instragram clip recently of a 20+ lad who met his doppelgänger after accidentally coming across him online. They looked liked twins. No relation at all.

Whether he looks like them or not the reality is could anyone really imagine the Queen, Prince Philip and the Queen Mother saying we’ll give the Heir’s baby to that couple who work in the Palace. I mean just no, of course they wouldn’t.

I have noticed this nasty rhetoric about Diana being trotted out on RF threads of late and always think to myself how well the Palace PR machine is still working. And how easily members of the public fall for it.

Not one person, not even Diana herself, claims she was saintly. But there has been a lot of misogynistic things written about her and her relationships of late that just wouldn’t be written about a man.

And this nasty rhetoric about her being mad and promiscuous is as old as the hills when it comes to powerful men wanting to control women who won’t go quietly.

It seems to me that certain members of the establishment are still invested in blackening her memory for their own ends. And given who is currently king, it doesn’t surprise me. I hope when William is king, that other messages will replace these current misogynistic ones.

If you don’t want to believe that the palace isn’t still pumping out rhetoric against Diana; check out Gyles Brandreth, a friend and supporter of Camilla, mentioning how “mad” Diana was on ITV This Morning last year. Just casually dropping it in to royal feature which had nothing to do with Diana at all.

And Diana’s late private secretary who worked with her for seven years, and found her to be very down to earth and far from mad, said it was evident that there was a sustained campaign of rhetoric against her.

Similar nasty comments are dropped in to these threads on the RF board in exactly the same way.

And it’s simply because everyone at the palace doesn’t want anyone remembering how Charles and Camilla behaved when Diana was engaged and married to Charles, and during both of her pregnancies, and when she had two young boys.

Any decent woman in that situation would have removed themselves from the scene entirely and gone and lived in another country, especially once the children had arrived.

No one seems to think about what would have happened had Diana not spoken out. In order to remain in the royal fold she had to appear in public and act out the lie that her marriage was happy and her children would have had to live that lie publically too. And yet somehow the RF are never wrong for expecting that of a woman in the first place?

I think it's two things, really; a somewhat preposterous and unsubstantiated claim which serves as gossip, and people looking for reasons to be critical of Charles and Camilla.
Not particularly logical.
Dislike them, if you will, but find better reasons than someone's personal and unevidenced claim about secret and concealed parenthood!.

I'm not sure my comment was "nasty" at all. I just don't like that Diana is often portrayed as some innocent angel sent from above, whilst Camilla is the wicked witch of the west.

He does look similar to William

I don't think Simon really is their child but I can understand why he does. Stranger things have happened than a rich 17 year old getting a girl pregnant and the baby being adopted.

He looks nothing like William.

I think it's quite important to counter the sanctification of Diana, which is seriously unrealistic. At the time of her death she was coming under a lot of criticism, both deserved and undeserved, and it was almost laughable how quickly the papers did a screeching U-turn to make her out to be this perfect, saintly being. It needs to be recognised that she was a normal, fallible human being and she wasn't the totally innocent party in the breakdown of her marriage.

The truth is most human beings are flawed.

No surprises there.

I don’t mind flaws. It makes people interesting.

What I don’t like are those who say we are all entitled to an opinion and then shoot others down when they state theirs. Or worse, accuse people of doing something they have not. Like being ‘aggressive’.

You want to be spiky about someone? Fill your boots. We are all entitled to have an opinion after all.

But don’t try to hide a distaste for someone under the umbrella of something else - trying to dazzle folk with a wide eyed ingenue light is rarely successful because it is, as often as not, incredibly dim looking.

True colours show themselves. Usually in the early hours. And mentioning the H word.

And as if by magic…

Still looks like Nige to me.

I can't see it either.

Yes, he does!

You're right.
He has hair.

I don't think he is Charles' son but I can see why an adopted child looking for his birth family could get caught up and obsessed with the idea of being a secret illegitimate royal child, history is littered with them after all.

I can definitely see a resemblance around the eyes, nose, and smile and can understand why this man is clinging to the idea.

I hope he finds peace.

Other than face shape I can't see any similarities. And their are only so many face shapes.

I can't see a posh rich girl having her baby adopted either. They'd have been more likely to end up with a shot gun wedding than the whole story of secret adoption.

He looks perfectly nondescript.

Aren't half the Royal family supposed to have 'love children'?

Is this because they've given up on Harry and his supposed real father?

No he doesn’t to me. I can’t see any resemblance at all to William.

I can see why an adopted child looking for his birth family could get caught up and obsessed with the idea of being a secret illegitimate royal child, history is littered with them after all. I hope he finds peace

I’ve butchered your post a little @KitBumbleB but I agree with this.

I do wish him peace. It must be hard clinging to a story and being desperate for an identity.

It’s all a nonsense.

Apart from anything else, no such thing as a private adoption in this country. in the 60s all adoptions were closed, yes, but they had to go through the courts.

If this was true, he would have been able to apply for an original birth certificate and adoption papers from the court.

And legitimation of children post marriage doesn’t affect titles.

Pre Queen Victoria, royal bastards were acknowledged and often well treated, Charles II had loads by many different women, and most of the boys because Dukes, William IV had 10 with his long term mistress but because none with his later wife his niece Victoria became Queen,

Creepy Nigel Farage.