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)

Gosh did she? I didn't notice that she got the R as well
I thought she just signed Camilla like "single name star" a La Madonna or Kylie 😂

Camilla picks causes well, rather than chasing the latest fashionable charity bandwagon.
She’s passionate about her causes which shows

That is because they are posting about major difficulties within their family where living apart until the children grew up would make things more manageable. None of them are adults where all their children have left home.

You mean unlike William?

@antelopevalley

🤣🤣🤣 nope - but you’re warm, just about 5,000 miles west 😉

As always it is only fair to be consistent. So if we are going to believe any old tosh about Camilla then that should apply equally to ALL members of the royal family.

FYI- that train story is bollocks. Originally linked to Diana at the time and Camilla’s name has only been attached to it in recent years as saddos on the internet try to fan the flames of resentment against the royals.

I wonder why anyone would be motivated to make up shit about a family they don’t know so obsessively. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Ohnonevermind Sorry I did not realise you just wanted to bash a few individuals.

@Legrandsophie Camilla's name has been attached to it for years.
It was originally thought to be Diana but wasn't.

They’re a couple in their seventies, who seem to genuinely like each other, they have passionate interests and causes.

I’d happily live their life,

@antelopevalley

i could say the same right back 🤣

Ladies in waiting were basically unpaid friends.
I'm sure doing walk about Camilla will have people who can take flowers from her and double check her outfit. But they'll be paid staff.

@Ohnonevermind I am not bashing Camilla. If her and Charles do not want to live together fine. I would not want to live with Charles either. I hope Camilla is happy.

What a mean post. Just because you agree with the charities that Camilla supports, does not mean that other peoples choices are to do with trying to appear fashionable.

I guess part of it might be 'normal' to them. Charles and Camilla probably both attended boarding school. His parents weren't always joined at the hip.

Most couples don't work together either so maybe they do just feel the need for a little bit of breathing space.

Normal couples have time out from each other, go to the pub, go for dinner see friends separately. KC and QC can't really do that.

@Dinoteeth Of course they can have time out, much more easily than normal people. They can go out for dinner, visit or stay with friends in their mansions, go riding with friends, go and stay for a week in a holiday home with friends.
And plenty of people in family businesses work much more closely together than they do.
If they want to live apart fine. But there are no special circumstances that necessitate it.

Although I do agree it may be normal to them. Aristocratic children of their generation spend a lot of time away from parents with nannies and at boarding school. And married couples seem to spend a lot of time apart often. The idea of a close family living together and spending a lot of time together is probably one they have not experienced.

The idea of a close family living together and spending a lot of time together is probably one they have not experienced.

I’m not sure why you think they would be saying otherwise. And is it always necessarily better to be together all the time if it doesn’t suit you? It doesn’t mean you are not close just because you are not physically in the same space. It’s a different way of living , but that does not make it wrong. It also doesn’t mean that family is not important to them.

@LadyKenya

if you take time to choose your charities they are close to you and you stick with them - sentable, one world, invictus - which is what H&M did and build upon those foundations. I think sunshine Sachs pushed/encouraged them into things to raise their profile like global citizen as they’re not involved this year ?

@smilesy Up to them. Most people live together with their family and still spend time apart.
But no you are not as close if you live part and visit each other sometimes. But if it is all you have ever known fair enough.

She does.

There was a media whinge about the cost of it when the permanent security planning permission was put in to replace temp stuff put in when they got engaged.

@antelopevalley

and you’re an expert on this how ?

Novella4, not spent much time on Mumsnet then(other than royal bashing threads perhaps).

The number of threads where the OP says ' To everyone else, we look like the perfect family but.........' It's something related on here time and time again.

But the mumsnet posters aren't presenting a fairytale to a nation who pay for their lavish existence .

And denying the truth

She still did it. She is surely the OW in MN speak. I cannot warm to her. However, i agree that they deserve one another.

I wasn’t aware that the Royal Family have ever “set themselves up as the perfect family” either. They don’t really talk about but much. The Queen has referred to other members as “much loved” as has Charles. But I don’t recall them being touted as the perfect family. And I don’t see why you are less close because you don’t live together all the time. What about being close to a parent after you have left home? Does that make you less close emotionally? My DS’s father and I are divorced and he lives a plane ride away, but I wouldn’t say they don’t have a close relationship with him.