Praise for Queen Camilla's common sense

[Bertiebiscuit]

So are the rabid TRAs going to try to cancel Queen Camilla for daring to meet with and praise J K Rowling? I'd like to see them try! Probably the only useful thing any member of the Royal Family has ever done, encouraging free speech in publishing. I might even become a Royalist after all.

Don't think so

With the number of kids dressed as Harry Potter for World Book Day, and the amount of young teens wearing Gryffindor scarves, I think she is very much loved by children.

Of course, if you hang out on certain Reddit threads you'll have a skewed view of reality.....

After For Women Scotland won their case about men in women's prisons, the Scottish Prison Services released a statement saying basically that they'd keep breaking the law and putting men in the women's estate. Bastards!

Did anyone else laugh at how quickly SPS pulled a u-ey on that statement once JKR offered to fund legal action for any woman who was illegally incarcerated with men and wished to sue?

Queen Eluzabeth was Monarch
Queen Camilla is a Queen consort
Very different Roles
Im not a Royalist in the slighest but people need to Educate themsleves of the fscts.

Harry Potter is taught on the curriculum at our local schools.
And on the reading list at Secondaries.

The excitement over the new TV series is rising.

Its only adults and teens whove swallowed tbe lie that wo?mens rights are "Transphobic" that "hate" her.

She was happily married to someone else in the first place though (by the time Charles was ready to get married).

You’re the silly billy. 😘
The late Queen compared to Camilla. Hahaha. No comparison!

I couldn’t care less about the royals, and I doubt either of JKR or QC can be cancelled at this time though given the amount of criticism thrown at both of them over the years I’m sure they have some understanding for each other.

As for the OP’s statement about the royals being useful, Diana did do something genuinely useful too - when even Drs wouldn’t touch AIDS patients without gloves and masks, she did, to show it was safe.

Exactly.

What rubbish, how could she possibly know it was safe if it wasn't for doctors telling her that? Doctors knew it was safe, it was the general public that were understandably fearful. Were you not alive at the time of the tombstone tv ads?

I really like Camilla, calm and sensible. I really like JK, calm and sensible. I don't like TRA's - not calm, not sensible.

The grudge people can bear for periods of decades over someone they've never met and about whom they don't know the facts is one of the great revelations to me from MN.

Your post reads as if you think Camilla is this greatly beloved figure whom the public would never under any circumstances turn against. Are you quite young?

No one cares.

Utterly pointless (and a bit dim) comparing Queen Camilla with Queen Elizabeth II. Completely different roles, different lives, different destinies, different choices. In the here and now, QC is highlighting the need for greater literacy amongst the young and greater help for victims of DV. As is JKR, who is a champion of both causes, which should be universally supported, free of politics, misogyny and the interests of pressure groups. You’d have to be pretty embedded in your prejudices and hatred to criticise either for coming together, supporting these causes and shaking hands.

But both are referred to as Her Majesty the Queen.

Camilla has really forged a role for herself with children's literacy, it's a field that should be controversy free. Bet they had no idea when they "picked a cause" just how politically charged it could be.
I have very mixed feelings about JKR, my DC grew up loving Harry Potter, however they do now question whether her anti trans sentiment has contributed to the ongoing rise in transphobia and more generally, homophobia and right wing ideology.
I have been quite surprised to hear even primary school age children being quite critical of her.

Upset? With you? Wouldn't waste my time

Can you articulate her “anti trans sentiment”?

Please can you clarify the hateful speech? Its often mentioned but Im not suere I have managed to find it..I assume @sj37dj can reference it

Again as @NoFineBalance asks, as have many pp, can anyone who calls JKR hateful/transphobic please give an example? How long have people been asking for some evidence?!

Why should we change age-old traditions? The wife of the reigning monarch is queen - it's not cheek, it's the way it is and has been for centuries.. It applied to Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Mary of Teck and Alexandra of Denmark, and several monarchs' wives before them. The fact that a few people are still in thrall to someone who died nearly 30 years ago doesn't change that.

Because it isn't a valid comparison. They are doing totally different jobs. If you haven't worked out the difference between the consort and the reigning monarch by now, where have you been all your life?

When did she becone Queen not Queen consort? No Queen of mine - although I like JKR

Her behaviour towards a vulnerable section of society, ie women, who are increasingly having their rights, safe spaces and even sports invaded by men, and their right to even comment about this eroded amid threats and intimidation, has been frankly inspirational!