Queen backs Camilla as future Queen Consort

[SnottyLottie]

news.sky.com/story/queen-reveals-sincere-wish-that-camilla-becomes-queen-consort-when-charles-is-king-in-platinum-jubilee-message-12533906

How do you think this will go down? And will the British public ever accept Camilla as Queen Consort?

[DeedIDo]

I'm happy with this and pleased for Camilla. After a shaky start, she has not put a foot wrong and her unstuffy approach is a godsend.

However, I don't expect the Diana lovers to approve.

[Viviennemary]

I just read this too. No I dont agree with this at all. We were told she wouldn't be Queen. Backpeddling again. Sick of the lot of them tbh.

[Kitkat151]

I think Camilla has done a great job....and she is well accepted by the public these days...I don’t foresee any problems at all

[Kitkat151]

@Viviennemary

I just read this too. No I dont agree with this at all. We were told she wouldn't be Queen. Backpeddling again. Sick of the lot of them tbh.

So why do you even care? 🙄

[SquirrelG]

I'm happy with this and pleased for Camilla. After a shaky start, she has not put a foot wrong and her unstuffy approach is a godsend.

I agree, I have always admired her.

We were told she wouldn't be Queen. Backpeddling again. Sick of the lot of them tbh.

How does this actually affect you?

[SandandFog]

I think it's the right decision, she's done a good job and I feel she's earned her stripes.

[RavenclawDiadem]

@DeedIDo

I'm happy with this and pleased for Camilla. After a shaky start, she has not put a foot wrong and her unstuffy approach is a godsend.

However, I don't expect the Diana lovers to approve.

I agree. She had big shoes to fill and was always going to suffer from being "the other woman".

But she's played a blinder - low key, supportive, taking the Duchess title rather than the Princess title. I think she'd be a lot of fun, she comes across as smart and funny.

[BringBackCoffeeCreams]

I think it's the right decision too.

[OverByYer]

I think she deserves it. She’s behaved with dignity the last 20 years.

[jerometheturnipking]

Ultimately how anyone feels about it is irrelevant. She’ll be married to the King when the time comes, and thems the breaks. The only way people get to not accept it is by abolishing the monarchy 🤷🏻‍♀️

Same as when people say “it should skip Charles and go straight to William”. Not how it works.

[BoodleBug51]

I like Camilla. She comes across as very genuine and warm. I can imagine that she finds Charles stuffy, and I like that she kept her own home for entertaining her family. I think she keeps him very grounded.

[MrsTimRiggins]

I can’t see why she shouldn’t be, she’s an asset to the royal family unlike some of the absolute liabilities she has the misfortune to have as in laws!
I expect the rabidly obsessed Diana fan base will be horrified. There’s something quite odd about the hysteria around her and her saint-like status while vilifying Camilla and entirely overlooking Charles.

[MindyStClaire]

@jerometheturnipking

Ultimately how anyone feels about it is irrelevant. She’ll be married to the King when the time comes, and thems the breaks. The only way people get to not accept it is by abolishing the monarchy 🤷🏻‍♀️

Same as when people say “it should skip Charles and go straight to William”. Not how it works.

Exactly!

[Lampshading]

Happy for camilla, seems like a good decision. She is much much much better suited to Charles than Diana was, and she seems to have contributed a lot to the RF.

[BadgerStripes]

@OverByYer

I think she deserves it. She’s behaved with dignity the last 20 years.

Pity she and Charles didn't behave with dignity before that

Think this is an appalling decision.

[jerometheturnipking]

🤦🏻‍♀️ It’s not a decision. Her not being Queen Consort would be breaking with tradition.

[Hapoydayz]

It's how it works, don't see the problem

[Puzzledandpissedoff]

Yet another error of judgement by the Queen IMO - what with Andrew and now this she seems to be developing quite a knack

Surprised, too, that on a (rightly) anti-racist forum there should be such support for someone with Camilla's tastes. I've posted this before, but perhaps she could bring her little hallway decoration with her to Buck House?

[KittensTeaAndCake]

I'm pleased for her. It's the right decision.

[FlorrieLindley]

Are there any women on here who are saying that if you marry a divorced man you are not entitled to be styled "Mrs so-and-so" just because his previous wife held that title?

Diana has been dead for a quarter of a century, and Charles and Camilla have been married for nearly 16 years.

She will be the spouse of the monarch and the de facto queen consort. Just like the present Queen's mother was.

[mummykel16]

I think it's a good idea, things could be much worse, look at who Harry married for goodness sake.

[BeMoreGoldfish]

It’s literally the only way this works - why does anyone think there’s an option?!

As PP have said, the only way we get a choice is if we abolish the whole outdated bullshit once and for all. Let’s stop tugging our forelocks and pretending she does a “great job”! Great job at doing what exactly?!?

[SalsaLove]

@mummykel16

I think it's a good idea, things could be much worse, look at who Harry married for goodness sake.

He married a lovely black American woman named Megan Markle. See how easy it is to remember?

[mummykel16]

@Puzzledandpissedoff

Yet another error of judgement by the Queen IMO - what with Andrew and now this she seems to be developing quite a knack

Surprised, too, that on a (rightly) anti-racist forum there should be such support for someone with Camilla's tastes. I've posted this before, but perhaps she could bring her little hallway decoration with her to Buck House?

Looks like she sees nothing wrong with black people being depicted in art, and not sidelined, another plus

[mummykel16]

He married a lovely black American woman named Megan Markle. See how easy it is to remember?

Was that before markle?
I never knew