William and Harry don't want their kids calling Camilla their grandmother!

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I read that both Harry and William have made that very clear, that is not their grandmother, step or otherwise. She is only their father's wife.

I can’t say I blame them. How do you know?

Why would they?

She isn't their grandmother.

Sorry stuffed it up. How do you know it’s true? I always wonder what is made up when I read about the royal family

And this is an issue because...???

My step mother is not a grandmother to my kids. At best she's like a favorite great aunt, someone in the family they see and have affection for, she has a nick name but very clearly is not grandmother - and nor does she try to be.

It's hardly unusual. 🙄

And ....? So what? My husband calls his fathers third wife, his "fathers wife" too. Second wife he called Step mum.
Whats the point of this thread?

...their grandfather's wife. Sounds reasonable to me. But I guess, ultimately, the children will call her whatever they decide to.

So? By the very definition of the word she's not their Grandmother. They've both made it clear their children know who Diana was. That doesn't however reflect on the relationship the children have with her. They probably have another nickname they call her by in place of Granny

Non story really. But then any of us could post anything starting with 'I read that'

I read that Stacey Solomon is obsessed with black pudding and occasionally likes to put one up her bottom..... doesn't make it real.

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Seems fair enough however it doesn't mean they don't have a good relationship with them. She has her own grandchildren & I don't think for a minute anyone would expect them to call Charles Grandpa. I'd think it's pretty normal for second marriages.

Probably because she isn’t their grandmother? My father remarried and my children don’t refer to her as their grandmother. They call her by her first name.

The same for many step families. What do you think you're proving here OP?

That should suit everyone. But where did you read it?!

My husband’s grandchildren don’t call me grandmother either. They use a cute, made up name or call me by my first name.
And yet we all manage to get along just fine. Especially when we have our special day trips to theme parks etc.

My dgc all call my dh grandad and they call my ex Husband's now wife grandma because we all love them and they love all of us. Oh and we're not controlling numpties hanging on to past grievances. William and Catherine seem to follow the pattern the South Parkles not so much.

no doubt this has been taken out of context, as usuial,

Quite. It's the inclusion of that venom-dripping little word "only" that shows where the OP stands.

@Price21210 Sadly, there's nothing to see here, no matter where you "read" it. It's normal. I don't imagine many step grandchildren call their step grandmother "gran".

Back you go to dig up something more controversial 2/10.

Yes, I'd say more likely to be "we'd love the children to call you Granny Camilla" and her saying "I don't think that would be right, and just think of the obsessive loons on MN if they ever saw such a thing"

Yep, they probably don't like word 'grandmother'

I am not surprised and I hope they’ve been left to have a grandparent / grandchild relationship with her despite this, albeit she does have grandchildren of her own. For me, this would be about the children’s not Camilla. I think there is also a lot of pain with William around Diana. The children wrote her letters last year for Mother’s Day. www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/20210314108839/kate-middleton-children-write-letters-princess-diana/

As someone, who lost a parent at a similar age to William, I would never have wanted my dd to do this. I find it odd rather than loving personally and would be concerned of creating a wound for the children. My mother was very much brought up under the shadow of a death and I came to learn it was a great burden even if she has never acknowledged this herself.

That's the case in every family I know where a parent remarried after the children's childhood. Often a lovely close relationship, but the parent's spouse isn't granny/grandad (or described as a step parent).

Camilla has her own grandchildren, I doubt she sees William and Harry's children in that way although she does seem to like kids so probably gets on well with them regardless.

The letters to Diana thing was bloody weird and releasing them even worse. I remember thinking it was a very strange PR move to counter something Harry had just done, can't remember what.

Both my grandfathers divorced my grandmothers and one married again, the other married twice more! I called them all by their first names, it would never have occurred to me to call them anything else.

Now that is fucking weird.
Encouraging children to write letters to a long dead person that they never knew.
Sick.

I thought the letter/cards thing was a bit weird. My nieces did drawings & cards for my Dad at various times after he died but they knew him & had a relationship with him.

However if Diana is talked about & the children know she's their Gran maybe it's been at George or Charlotte's suggestion.
Writing cards or letters for their Mum & Gran Carol perhaps they've suggested it, it's not necessarily been William who's instigated it