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)

Yes, as I understand it, her children and grandchildren visit her there. It's more private and less formal. Very understandable.

This was well discussed on another thread. They do not live apart. Camilla has kept her own house so her grandchildren can visit in a more informal setting.

anyone who keeps their own home and has regular time away from their husband is eminently sensible

And rich

If Camilla was a regular woman who posted on Mumsnet and described how she got together with her current husband, she'd be absolutely torn to shreds. Yet, here we are, the plebs fawning all over her. It's rather nauseating.

Well enough off that she can run another house. Not necessarily rich - all sorts of reasons why a woman might own another that she doesn't want to give up.

The wink at the Donald Trump meeting sealed the deal for me- I love her

Yes it was assumed by the paps that is was Diana iirc.
There was also the bracelet gift and Camilla checking whether Diana would hunt.

If Charles had had more determination and will he would have married Camilla when they were younger.

I do concede that she is said to be good for him, manages his moods etc.

Of course they live seperately a lot of the time but they're hardly going to advertise that fact!
Straight after Philip's funeral she sped away back to Wiltshire, him seperately to Highgrove (she was seen on the M4)
I presume that works for them

Yes, she’d had 10 days or however long it was with him, getting tetchy about pens etc. She was probably desperate for 24 hours on her own.

I'd love to have a second home I could bugger off to on my own every weekend or whatever. Lucky her!
They are not young newly weds after all.

Because Highgrove is so small there is nowhere for children to play in an informal room.

A couple with two homes is rich.

I love her Reading Club

Nah not necessarily

But in this case it’s true

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

What absolute toss.

She's gone into the entire decades long deal with her eyes wide open from the get go.

Not always, there can be a second home for any number of reasons - although in this case they are, obviously.

She was madly in love with Andrew Parker Bowles, and used Charles to make him jealous. The Crown is not a true story!

There would be all sorts of security and protocol and servants hanging around.

If you were a rich divorcee with 2 adult children, you would totally keep your own house and not combine assets with husband no. 2 especially if he also had kids. I know I wouldn't and that would be the advice on Mumsnet. It's like Camilla's escape fund.

She’s been yearning for it. She tells people that she will be the first Queen to be a commoner ( actually she is wrong, as Anne Boleyn beat her to it by several centuries, but she is also very proud of having no O levels).

She’s been yearning for it. She tells people that she will be the first Queen to be a commoner ( actually she is wrong, as Anne Boleyn beat her to it by several centuries, but she is also very proud of having no O levels).

I seriously doubt she ever said any such thing.

Also, for your information, Anne Boleyn was not the first commoner to be queen (if that's what you were suggesting).

I do believe she married Charles for himself not because of the role. But is happy to take the role on and use it for the things she feels passionate about.

A bit like I see Kate as someone who married William for himself and is happy with the life that goes with it.

I think she's done a very sensible thing keeping her house. She can have it as she wants it and her children/grandkids won't feel like they are visiting. I imagine her Wiltshire house will be left to her kids.

She will have servants in her own house. You are not suggesting she does her own cleaning surely?
They only have to have protocol in private if they want to. No one else cares.

Of course they are visiting granny. Wherever she lives they would be visiting granny. It would be stranger to visit her though in a house she did not actually live in.