I think Camilla looks very stylish!

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Only wanted to see what she was wearing and actually really like it!

Here, sorrel .

Get the Rothesay tartan!

Oooh, thank you, www - looks like my kind of book!

I think she would say "the Queen" rather than "your mother" (or even your mum, lol) but "They'll be along soon. She'll be having a good old chat" - A GOOD OLD CHAT? - good grief.

But you can hear him saying it, can't you? Bless. I admit it, the PR has got to me, I like them now

Am v suspicious of the NOTW though

How do they know what happened inside the castle? Eh? Eh?

(Are any of you watching The Queen's Castle btw? It's fab!)

Now this I do believe! Jilly Cooper is an impeccable source. Much nicer report.

(Did you notice the NOTW took "the winner's enclosure" to mean that the Q was implying C is a horse? )

True Janh. And I don't think she was implying Camilla is a horse, I think she was making reference to the Grand National, surely?

Of course she was! (And also, maybe, making a joke against herself for having legged it back to watch the race?)

How hilarious it is - lots of staunch republicans cooing over Camilla's frocks. And I should know, I'm one of them (much to dh's disgust).
Loved the outfits. Even liked the dead porcupine (though I also have a similar Christmas wreath). Thought they looked touchingly happy and it is quite something to still be madly in love after 35 years, isn't it?
Amazing what a difference a wedding makes.
Wish I could have seen the whole thing on telly - though would have to have locked dh in the cellar to do so - but was visiting ailing MIL in Yorkshire at her Old People's Home where it was like Christmas - the Grand National AND a Royal Wedding on one day!
But doesn't Camilla walk like a trucker in drag? And she has the same bird-like stoop that Mrs Thatcher had. V poor posture.

Loved the bit in the Guardian about the Prayer of Penitence being like Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction btw.
I thought it was dreadful! I mean, let those without sin etc. What a downer on your wedding day. I think old Archbishop Beardie was just throwing his weight around there.

Ditto Aloha! I thought that she looked very elegant. they looked like a pair of late middle aged people who were finaly happy. What a farce the whole thing is! If only he had not been heir to the throne and then he could have married her in the first place! Saving him, her, her ex and diana aet al a whole load of sadness. Better to get rid of the whole ideaof the monarchy!

So ironic that he felt he couldn't marry her all those years ago because she 'had a past' - ie wasn't a virgin.

What a load of tosh!

Yes, but it is probably true that she would have been ripped to shreds as a wicked old slag in those days....ridiculous, esp considering what marrying a virgin bride led to!

Very long and detailed (and apparently fair - well, apart from the fact that all the allegations about early goings-on necessarily originated from Diana) history of the whole Camilla/Diana thing in the Telegraph.

Dragging things very much off topic now. I also think that Diana's family, who must have realised what the 'deal' would fully mean seemed to do little or nothing to inform Diana what the realities of her marrage would be. Charles was very much following in 'tradition' by thinking that he could have the 'correct' wife and then a mistress of his choice. I don't think for one second that Dian's family were ignorent of this,but let her go into the marrage, young, ill advised and unaware of what her like was going to be like. they also share in the 'blame' I think

Absolutely, Happy. It still makes me mad that her brother stood up and made that holier-than-thou speech at her funeral while he was treating his wife (who also had an eating disorder) in an appalling manner. I think her marrige into royalty suited her family quite nicely, thank you.

It makes me sooooo angry when people go on about the monarchy "doing exactly what they want", when as this demonstrates, they cannot.

I think one reason HRH vascillated about Camilla 34 years ago was that she didn't fit the profile of what was expected of his marriage. I think she realised this and gave up on him to marry Andrew Parker-Bowles.

Charles married Diana because he was getting on in years, suitable virgins were in short supply, and she was in a sense 'the best they could find' in terms of aristocratic young women. I think that marriage was out of duty, not love, and as she proved, she was an unsuitable choice. I also believe she had very little practical support from her family, and at court they had never had to 'bring someone in' in that way before, and didn't realise that she needed extra emotional support as well as teaching how a Princess should behave. She never quite got the hang of discretion, IMHO.

Now it is all over, I truly hope that Charles and Camilla can settle in to a happy life together.

According to Julie Birchill in her book about Diana, which I admit to owning! Diana's family had a huge part in engineering the whole marriage. Aloha, I know, I am one of those republicans cooing over her dress!

and ha ha ha at her walking like a trucker in drag, she does, absolutely!

Julie Burchill even.

I thought EXACTLY the same about having the same posture as Mrs T.

I really hope that everyone has learnt a lesson from the whole Charles/Diana/Camilla affair and leaves William and Harry to make their own choices. I'm old enough to remember Charles (and Anne) in their 20's and even then the press was merciless. Neither of them could as much as been seen with someone of the opposite sex without the media asking whether wedding bells were about to ring. Charles was regarded as almost being on the shelf because he wasn't married by the time he was 30!! It's ridiculous pressure to be put under, imo. But I suppose history probably will repeat itself again, as the boys get older.

Republican teenage dd1 has already eyeballed Harry for herself. Not sure what I think about having him as a son-in-law, though I could then put him right on a few things!

I think i must be the only person who thought zara philips looked great! Though the dress was really funky!