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Camilla couldn’t give a fig about being Queen

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Viviennethebeautiful · 02/10/2022 22:25

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)

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Ohnonevermind · 04/10/2022 11:19

She seems like great fun, it’s nice they have their own houses, most of us would like our own boltholes I’m sure.

antelopevalley · 04/10/2022 11:22

I would not like to live apart from my husband. We are married and live together because we love each other.

Novella4 · 04/10/2022 11:24

Totally normal to live apart !
Just as it's totally normal to have affairs !
You serfs wouldn't understand

just royal things

Ohnonevermind · 04/10/2022 11:31

I visit my family and sometimes Dh stays behind - often easier with our menagerie of pets.

We love each other but don’t need to spend all our time in each other pockets. Most of my IL’s and friends who have holiday homes, often visit without DH’s. I visit my family who live abroad, sometimes with family, sometimes without.

smilesy · 04/10/2022 11:31

I once had a neighbour who was happily married but she didn’t live with her husband. They got on well together, but needed their own space apparently. It wouldn’t have been my choice but it worked for them. They were not titled or especially wealthy. I believe she had inherited a property and had sold it to buy the house next to us. I wouldn’t judge anybody else’s way of arranging their family. It doesn’t mean they don’t love each other or enjoy each other’s company. They just need space apart and are lucky enough to be able to do that.

Ohnonevermind · 04/10/2022 11:34

Love the shouty font size above 🤣🤣🤣

antelopevalley · 04/10/2022 11:44

Novella4 · 04/10/2022 11:24

Totally normal to live apart !
Just as it's totally normal to have affairs !
You serfs wouldn't understand

just royal things

:)

By the way we do not live in each other's pockets either. We do things separately. I visit my family and friends at times without DP.

We are not rich so do not have holiday homes.

If you want to live apart fine, up to you. But please do not pretend it is normal or that everyone would if they could afford to.
Most people want to live with their partner and share day-to-day life together.

antelopevalley · 04/10/2022 11:46

I remember when this first came up people talking about married couples they knew with children living apart and passing children between them as if it was a great idea. It just sounded like divorced parents who still had sex sometimes.

Serenster · 04/10/2022 11:49

Just as it's totally normal to have affairs !

I’m sorry, I hadn’t previously realised that the only people who have affairs are royals. Going by Mumsnet then, the royal family is far, far bigger than I ever realised. 🤣

PuttingDownRoots · 04/10/2022 11:52

I live apart from my husband part of time by necessity... he has work accommodation where as I stay in the family home. The whole bed to myself and free choice on TV in the evenings is great.

Still love him.

Novella4 · 04/10/2022 11:53

I think it's about presenting a perfect image to the masses / photo ops and doing what they want behind the scenes, esp with younger couples .
It's also about the establishment and the church . So weird that Charles will be head of the Church of England . Awks .
His own mother couldn't attend his marriage to Camilla as she was head of the church . Now he is ...

Novella4 · 04/10/2022 11:54

@Serenster
No , it's not the fact of the affairs . It's the hypocrisy of manipulating their image to deny it

Ohnonevermind · 04/10/2022 11:56

When I worked in London, many of the upper management had flats in London and their families lived outside London. They’d usually spend Monday-Thursday nights in the city and the others at one.

Back at home in Dublin , a number of colleagues did the same, and it’s not unusual for people here to work in London / Amsterdam and travel home at weekends.

Dinoteeth · 04/10/2022 12:02

I can totally get the idea of travel being apart for work. Crash pad in the city, family home out with.

But what I can't get my head round is her house being 30mins from Highgrove and them living separately. He doesn't work at Highgrove.
Maybe her place is partly kept as a financial investment. It's hers to leave to her children.

But who knows they seem a happy couple and pretty devoted to each other.

Novella4 · 04/10/2022 12:06

'But what I can't get my head round is her house being 30mins from Highgrove and them living separately.'

Quite .

I imagine he's hard work

antelopevalley · 04/10/2022 12:24

I know people who live away because of work and travel home on Thursday night. That is normal in some jobs.
I agree living half an hour away is a couple choosing to live apart, it is not for practical reasons whatever story we are spun.
Camilla and Charles do not want to live together. They want to live in different houses and see each other sometimes.

Ohnonevermind · 04/10/2022 12:26

It seems to work for them, they seem quite happy.

antelopevalley · 04/10/2022 12:29

Sure if they want to live apart up to them.
Just please do not pretend that is what most couples want. Most people want to live with the person they love.

Serenster · 04/10/2022 12:31

It's the hypocrisy of manipulating their image to deny it

Again, I hadn’t realised that all other people having affairs splash it across their facebook/instagram/social media posts and make sure everyone in their social circles/work environments/families etc are perfectly clear that there’s an affair going on…..oh, that would be because they don’t. 99% of people having an affair keep it secret, which involves a large amount of manipulating their (and their partner’s/families’) image to conceal it.

I’m not even going there with the ridiculous implication that current royal family members are denying affairs. Wanting it to be so doesn’t make it so, you know.

Novella4 · 04/10/2022 12:39

@Serenster
You are being disingenuous.

Other people don't set themselves up as the perfect family .

Novella4 · 04/10/2022 12:40

And the royals are going to have to come up with a strategy to deal with this problem .
No doubt a mea culpa at some point .

Phillip could get away with it when social media wasn't prevalent and people were deferential .

antelopevalley · 04/10/2022 12:45

The Royals keep trying to pretend they only live apart so Camilla can have the grandchildren over. They do not seem to realise how bad that looks. If it was true it shows Charles in a terrible light. It would mean he is so grumpy and inflexible that he will not have, or not behave appropriately if Camilla's grandchildren are in his mansion.
Most grandparents have their grandchildren visit in a small three-bedroom house and have no issue with that. If you are not okay with having children visit in a large mansion house with four reception rooms including a two-storey family room, and 600-acre grounds, then you are a very intolerant individual.

antelopevalley · 04/10/2022 12:45

I suspect they actually live apart because Charles is a very difficult person that nobody could be expected to put up with for long periods of time.

Ohnonevermind · 04/10/2022 13:04

Perhaps the people who have such huge difficulties with keeping another house should head over to the stepparents/kids section. Most of them would be delighted to have a second house close by.

As I said , they seem happy with their lives, they have an easy intimacy with each other.

fleurdelee · 04/10/2022 13:06

Aspiringmatriarch · 02/10/2022 22:40

She's dispensing with having Ladies in Waiting apparently. I agree, she seems down to earth and has chosen some great causes to champion.

She will need some people surely. She won't be the one writing back to every bugger etc
Surely the ladies in waiting are also there to take the flowers at walkabojts etc