Why is the Queen commenting on the Roald Dahl controversy?

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I thought the Royal Family were supposed to be uncontroversial and unpolitical, so why is the Queen getting involved in this? It is nothing to do with her, she did not have to say anything?

Or have the rules changed and they are now going to be more controversial and political?

I always thought it was self-styled.

Blair probably just ironed that label inside her frocks.

"The people's princess" was a creation of the "great" Alastair Campbell, I believe.

Spot on.

He wrote the speech, Blair delivered it.

Blimey, that was a weird time, wasn't it? All that weeping and wailing, and the sea of flowers. I remember going past and the smell of the flowers in the plastic, in the sun, was quite heady.

It really was. I worked in Cambridge at the time and a local taxi firm laid on a free taxi every day to take the flowers left outside the Guildhall down to London. The funeral was so strange, with the M1 completely deserted as the hearse went to Althrope.

Just imagine if Camilla had used the title Princess of Wales as she was entitled to when she married Charles,

Some people would probably have spontaneously combusted!

I wish she had done. The spontaneous combustion would have been hilarious to see

"Not my Princess of Wales!" 🔥🔥

The brows would be that furrowed, it would be hard to tell where their chins were.

Not the Queen of MY Heart

I don’t think Charles or Camilla had much to do with the timing of QE2 dying

People are already combusting at Kate using it 🤷‍♀️

Do you talk about Queen Consort Alexandra, Queen Consort Mary and Queen Consort Elizabeth in relation to the wives of monarchs of the 20th century?

I would have just loved to have seen that spontaneous combustion happen. 🤣🤣

People are so ridiculous, and a fair few are showing up on this thread.

Camilla is not loved .

I think she's great.

A female monarch can create her spouse as a Prince (or Duke etc.) but it doesn't happen automatically when they marry.

In fact, Philip was not a prince at all from 1947 until 1957 when the late Queen made him a prince of the United Kingdom.

The Queen is dead, and the next actual one won't be til/if Charlotte gets the throne. I'm the one using the formal official term which is QueenConsort. Those calling her Queen are the ones who look weird.

As has been explained by many on this thread, this is a spectacularly incorrect assertion.

Queens consort have always been referred to ("styled") simply as The Queen while their kingly husbands were alive. For example, while George V reigned, his wife was HM The Queen. After his death, she was known as Queen Mary.
Same for the wife of George VI, except that after his death she had the added designation of Queen Mother to distinguish her from her daughter. “The Queen” reference is not limited to queens regnant.

Blimey, that was a weird time, wasn't it? All that weeping and wailing

As an American observing from across the pond, it seemed very weird indeed, and if I can be so bold as to generalize, a bit un-British.

A little soothing night music to soothe those going all unnecessarily burny?

@ArcaneWireless 😂😂👌

As an American observing from across the pond, it seemed very weird indeed, and if I can be so bold as to generalize, a bit un-British.

senecafalls. Nobody has cried this much up here since Donald lost his troosers.

@ArcaneWireless - well, the wind was blowing high and low!

Totally different. The wife of the King is the Queen (yes, a consort but still the Queen). The husband of a reigning Queen is never the King. When King George VI was alive, the Queen Mother was then referred to as The Queen.

No, she was never referred to as The Queen... that title was reserves for the Monarch (ie QEII). Her title was Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

Sorry, please ignore my last post, you said when the King was alive.

Indeed my friend. He’d have been gubbed a lot earlier with the wind round these parts.

Still. Every day is a school day.

Nice meme! Is that royal meme thread still going? There were some corkers on there (some from you, I believe, @ArcaneWireless !)