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.

SNP MP Tommy Sheppard said the appointment was emblematic of the monarchy’s “obsession with feudal patronage”.

“The fact that these titles and positions are determined by accident of birth and forever the preserve of just one family is completely at odds with modern democratic values,” he said. “In Scandinavian countries, monarchies have gone out of their way to slim down by stripping lesser royals of their hereditary titles. Not here. In the UK, there seems no end to their obsession with feudal patronage.”

Tristan Gray, the convener of Our Republic – a campaign group calling for an end to the monarchy in Scotland – told The National that the appointment of Prince Edward as Duke of Edinburgh was “an insult” to the residents of the capital city. He said: “I think it’s an insult to the people who call Edinburgh home that their city can be passed around as a trinket to be given to people as a birthday present, just so Edward can put it up on his wall in his Surrey mansion, as if he has any connection to the city whatsoever.

“The people of Edinburgh have legitimate democratic representation. They vote for it in their council elections, we had a by-election this week. They’ve got parliamentary representation, both in the Scottish Parliament and at Westminster. Those people are elected by and accountable to the people of Edinburgh. They are the legitimate representatives of the people who call the city home. And to have them undermined by the granting of this title – and the gifting of it as a birthday present – to distant aristocrats is an insult both to the people of Edinburgh themselves and to the very concept of the legitimate representation of those people.”

Sorry wrong thread !

my friend kids call her dads wife grandma

they all adore each other but she’s not there grandma she’s her dads wife
they get on like a house on fire

big story about nothing

This makes the (fairly massive) assumption the children want to call her Grandmother or a variation of it. How do you know they’re not perfectly content with calling her by her first name, or a nickname, or Auntie?

My BIL’s parents have been divorced for 25 years. My niece has never known them together - so she has never questioned the fact that Grandma and Grandpa don’t live together like my parents do. Of course if they’d split up in her lifetime she’d want to know why, but she’s never known any different. If the Wales children have only ever known Camilla as Auntie Camilla, for example, why would they be desperate to call her Granny?

No assumption - I said let them call her what they want. Which might not be a grandparent name, but a nickname or just Camilla or anything!! Our DD calls their granny’s husband ‘grandad’ - although their blood granddad died before they were born. We didn’t push for this, she just does. We don’t mind either - which is the real point here.