Camilla snubs Brigitte Macron at D-Day Anniversary, rejecting her gesture of warmth

[TallerSally]

Well, isn't this a funny one.

Foreign heads of state are under no obligation to respect protocols of foreign royalty, particularly in their own country.

Seems Camilla didn't get the memo:

"Queen Camilla, 76, and Brigitte, 71, had an awkward moment on June 6 during a service marking the 80th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in Normandy, France. As seen in a video shared to X by the Daily Mail, French President Emmanuel Macron's wife tried to hold the royal's hand after they laid wreaths at the British Normandy Memorial at Ver-sur-Mer. However, Queen Camilla didn't reciprocate, keeping her arm at her side. After briefly grasping the royal's hand, Brigitte stepped to the side and folded her arms in front of her.
Proper etiquette around interacting with the British royals has long been a highly discussed subject. The royal family's website, which has yet to be updated in full following the death of Queen Elizabeth in September 2022, states, "There are no obligatory codes of behavior when meeting The Queen or a member of the royal family, but many people wish to observe the traditional forms."

Funnily enough, Charles himself didn't follow royal protocol:

"Proving that there are no hard and fast rules around how to say hello, King Charles, 75, greeted President Macron with a hug at the British Normandy Memorial and kissed his wife's hand."

I guess Camilla's more royal than the royals themselves?

https://people.com/queen-camilla-brigitte-macron-awkward-moment-royal-avoids-holding-hands-d-day-anniversary-event-france-8659266

Yep. Women have to be pitted against each other whatever the event.

The misogyny positively drips from this post.

Why drag Dale Tyron into your hatred? She has living children, who I am sure would rather not have their mother's name and memory dragged into your petty points scoring. She was a remarkable woman in her own right, not just some pawn in the pathetic SS game of spewing forth ill-infomed half truths in the hope some of it sticks, because their darlings can't get it together and make a successful life for themselves outside the RF.

Charles and Camilla have been married for 20 years. She is the Queen consort. Diana never would have been because she chose to leave her marriage. You really need to get over it.

And yes, of course all the SS care about it what people are wearing, rather than the occasion and the real people there to be celebrated. That's the difference between royalty who go to honour those involved, and those who go to self aggrandise and make it all about themselves.

It's a funny one, isn't it @BlueParrotRedParrot .
Living in the past.
It always reminds me of when we adopted decimal currency, and lots of people would go on and on - "what's that in old money?" "we should go back to shillings and pence". That's what these people remind me of.
Living in the past and refusing to consider that things change.

The wedding would have ceased to be about the bride and groom if Harry had attended.
William was a guest - the wedding was all about the bride and groom. Very indicative of personality and approach.

Plus: heaven forfend that women age.
Diana would have aged too, people forget that.

I love that William travelled on the bus with other guests . Trying - and failing- to imagine H and M doing that !

Can you imagine! 😂
They wouldn't even get on the bus to the Platinum Jubilee at St Paul's, with Beatrice, Eugenie, Zara et al!
Far too important and in desperate need of separate photo opportunities.

No wonder Harry engaging a law firm called "Schillings." He certainly seems to live in the past!

😮I had no idea they did this. Pair of self aggrandising idiots. Perhaps they wouldn't have got booed if they had been with the cousins.

Excellent 👌 😂
"It's 1794, I am a prince, kneel before me, plebs"

Oh, I think those cousins are too low ranking for The Duke and Duchess!
What was it Mike Tindall called him?.

The Fresh Prince Of Bellend.

😂👏

Has the Fresh Prince of Bellend ( love it) said anything about African Parks ?
Any jam update ?

Of course not.
The African Parks debacle would mean he'd actually have to take some kind of personal responsibility.

@BlueParrotRedParrot

I don’t hate Charles or Camilla. I just don’t respect them. There is a difference.

I’m not sure who decided to end the marriage first - Diana or Charles? Do any of us know? But it’s pure misogyny to expect Diana to have continued to put up with the sort of marriage she had experienced from the start.

None of them could have cared enough about the effect their selfish actions were having on their children. Or they wouldn’t have behaved the way they did.

No-one on here has claimed that Diana should have remained in that marriage.
We're countering the usual hypothetical nonsense that she would have "done better" than Camilla at the Normandy events.

Please explain this sentiment to the many(?) posters that accuse anyone not frothing and fawning over Harry and Meghan of hatred.

I don’t hate Charles or Camilla. I just don’t respect them. There is a difference.

If Camilla doesn’t want to hold hands with someone she doesn’t know very well, why isn’t she allowed to have that boundary?

of course she is, some people are just looking for an excuse to slag her off.
Sad.

It’s criticism from the type who think women only have one purpose, and that is to look and behave in a way pleasing to them. Aging is a crime. Dressing modestly is an affront. Exhibiting bodily autonomy is offensive.

Hmmm…. Who holds those views?

It's your pure misogyny though, isn't it, not mine. I'm not the one consigning Diana's imaginary destiny to being the Queen to the man who apparently treated her so badly. It's not my wet dream that Diana would be hugging heads of state and sprinkling her magic on all royal engagements. It's not me that can't move on from the fact that Charles and Diana moved on from their marriage, in which they both behaved badly, and one of them found happiness in a wife who is currently conducting herself impeccably. That's all on the Sussexes and their supporters, who cannot help but compare Camilla to Diana, and imply that she was waiting in the wings for an opportunity to steal Diana's rightful destiny.

@BlueParrotRedParrot It’s also not you imagining that Diana would be treated any better by Meghan and Harry than they’ve treated everyone else around them.

@AliceOlive I wonder what Harry would have been like if he had not lost his mother. One hopes a much happier man who would not be living the bitter life he is now.

The thing about beautiful icons who die young and in tragedy (not just Diana, there are numerous examples) is that they are frozen in time. There's no room for them to have changed, matured, re-married, had more children with a new partner, for the magic to have faded, for them to have slipped out of public view and found happiness elsewhere, and for them to have become ordinary, older people with a different outlook on life. It's their dying young at the height of their power that is latched onto by those who want to monetise them and project what they would be like today. It's pure fantasy. And not a little sickening. Because the power that is being leeched upon is a direct result of a premature death.