Camilla couldn’t give a fig about being Queen

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Queen or Queen consort, please let’s not discuss that.

She has great involvement in issues that she’s bothered about like Osteoporosis, children reading, domestic violence.

Her services, at Local and national level, alone or with The King are regular and demanding for a lady of her age.

Her husband loves her. She loves him. She has made him more human

Queen (or whatever, is the last priority for her)

They wouldn't just leave her without security no matter where she is. She will have 24hr personal protection. She's about as a high a profile target that you can get!

I think she's fab. She truly loves him and is in this for him. I don't think she likely wanted to be Queen. I do think she will make a good go of it.

I imagine she would like a quiet life at her age and to put her feet up. I sometimes think I see that in her face! It must all be completely exhausting at 74!

I like her, she seems like someone who just gets on with it. I hope they both thoroughly modernise the monarchy.
If the queen of Denmark can strip her family of titles, I hope Charles does too, starting with his brother.

I don't think she likes being the centre of attention, but she'll grit her teeth and get on with it for Charles's sake.

Ladies in Waiting was an ancrism. They were not paid. They were basically unmarried aristocratic women who got bed and board for being companions.
Aristocratic women have far more choices now so any Royal would struggle to get someone decent to agree to take on this role.

She also does not strike me as stupid. She would not have married Charles if she was not fine with being Queen Consort. She knows she married into a role.

"She's rather reminiscent of the Princess Royal who doesn't give a fig about her royalty status"

Pmsl. It's like pp digested a daily mail royal thesaurus

She’d have to have full time security but wouldn’t need to have staff. She could cook for her children and grandchildren if she wanted to, without any fuss.

She's a fabulous woman. So warm and sensible.
Listen to her here on domestic abuse - she really knows her subject (WARNING contains explicit detail)
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014pfw

It is brilliant propaganda.
Oh I have these mansions, jewels and servants, but really I would rather be ordinary just playing with my grandchildren.

She does not need to have staff, but she does.

I like her very much as well. I would hate to take all that on at her age. I'm about 5 yrs younger than she is and I just want to put my feet up and for fun, snuggle my horses, play with my dogs and potter about in the garden. I hate getting dressed up, meeting people, traveling.

Jewels, mansions and servants mean very little to older people. What we like is being comfortable, pain and stress free - doing what we want, when we want.

When I was a little girl I used to ask my mum if she had one wish, what would it be and she always said, "Good health. Without your health, you have nothing". I thought she was boring and kept on wishing for a pony. Now I'm older, I get it.

@BlodynGwyn Totally disagree. While not as old as Camilla I find the older I get, the more I value things being easier. I would bloody love a cleaner, a chef and a chauffeur. I am like my gran who loved meeting new people well into her nineties. I could not think of anything more sad than spending your days snuggling on the sofa. Camilla is older, but she is not half-dead.

Agree to some extent but she and Charles did treat Diana appallingly. It was a horrible mess at the time.

"Camilla couldn't give a fig about being Queen"

That's the OP.

I couldn't give a fig about Camilla. She means absolutely nothing to me. There's nothing she does in her life that impacts me or is of benefit to me.
She doesn't care about me, I don't care about her!

You clearly care enough to open a thread, read a thread and post on one to say you don't care.
That Schroeder's Caring, is it?

*Schrödinger's
My "thesaurus" can spell, autocorrect can't.

Being fair to them, other people shouldn't have meddled in the relationship in the first place. Diana was basically an arranged marriage.
Totally unfair to all involved.

Camilla was married well before Charles married Diana. She made her choice. It
was a poor choice, but if she didn’t divorce her husband she shouldn’t have been messing around with Charles. I thought she was loathsome for many years and behaved very badly. However perhaps age has brought wisdom. She has behaved really well since their marriage.

I think Charles has paid for some security measures there.

She didn't start out life as queen consort, and a title doesn't make you posh.

Many people remember her for caring on shagging Charles throughout his marriage to Diana. That's not posh.

I think she will be more popular than her husband, just as his last wife was.

The RF decided she wasn't good enough and medled to split then up, sending him away with the navy for months.
OK he hadn't made his intentions clear. She didn't think he was interested and looked elsewhere.
The RF should have left them alone in the first place. Could have saved a shed load of hurt and pain for everyone involved.

I don’t think the RF sent him away in the Navy. It was part of Charles’ job to do what he did. He could have asked her to marry him at any point . If he really loved her he would have fought for her. He didn’t. He dithered about, and she married someone else. At which point she should have cut ties with him.

I thought it had been made clear to him camilla was unacceptable

He didn't cheat with her until after Harry was born and Diana admitted she cheated first