Camilla-Queen Consort?

Charles should abdicate in favour of William

He’ll have to be King before he can abdicate though.

A minor detail, of course.

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I know why my comment was (rightly) deleted and I’m pleased Michael dealt with these nasty posts promptly.

Amazing that someone would keep trying to flout the rules so persistently!

Republic has lodged a formal complaint with the
@metpoliceuk
Four months on and nothing appears to have been done to investigate Prince Charles on suspicion of selling honours.

Did you expect it to be televised ?

All 18 of these royals live in state owned homes, mainly in St James's Palace, Kensington Palace or Windsor. They pay little or no rent at a huge cost to the taxpayer. Most of them do very little in return. They also have second, third and fourth homes.
#AbolishTheMonarchy

Camilla has worked hard and will deserve her reward of at least being Queen Consort.

Worked hard ?

I think ‘working hard’ has a different meaning in Royal circles!

Yes. “Made a commitment “ might be more accurate.

Work hard has a different connotation for all of us. Try telling a refuse collector that teachers work harder than they do, or that GP’s work harder than nurses or that anyone works harder than mothers.
Working hard is the effort you put into your role, whatever it is, so I expect that applies to Camilla too. Anyone on GN think they’ve never worked hard?

I did bugger all when I was a civil servant, and got promoted, too!

I didn’t work hard when I worked as a lawyer in the public sector. Moving to the private sector was a baptism of fire.

Interesting. Working hard is the effort you put into your role. I guess I’ve always worked hard both as a parent and a teacher. I’d hate to have to say anything else.

I don’t agree adaunas. I put the proper amount of effort into my work in the public sector but there was so much more work to be done, tighter deadlines, so much pressure and much longer hours in the private sector.

Whydon't the RF work hard. There is mpre to their work than spending 10 minutes grinning at people and retiring. Every occasion has to be booked, planned.hey read up extensively on every place they are visiting. They also have programmes and charities they are deeply involved with and do work with and for that is not photographed and published. they do immense amounts of travelling, time away from home and children, I would also think that the sorting out of their working wardrobe must be tedious, not offending people because they have seen the outfit before, probably buying clothes you would never choose to wear normally, a bit like school uniform even if it does glitter.

I would think most 9-5 office jobs is less tiring and stressful than theirs.

Well said MOnica

I agree MOnica.

M0nica

Whydon't the RF work hard. There is mpre to their work than spending 10 minutes grinning at people and retiring. Every occasion has to be booked, planned.hey read up extensively on every place they are visiting. They also have programmes and charities they are deeply involved with and do work with and for that is not photographed and published. they do immense amounts of travelling, time away from home and children, I would also think that the sorting out of their working wardrobe must be tedious, not offending people because they have seen the outfit before, probably buying clothes you would never choose to wear normally, a bit like school uniform even if it does glitter.

I would think most 9-5 office jobs is less tiring and stressful than theirs.

I now have a vision of Prince Charles sorting out his own Outlook Calendar while looking up the internet about flooding in Braemar and ironing his own shirts.

Kate is well known for wearing the same outfit several times. I'm not convinced she pops down to M&S to buy her own party frocks.

Well she might go shopping for her own party frocks from wherever. Likewise she might have her groceries delivered. I work hard, but I have someone else to iron clothes. Re Prince Charles, imagine the headlines if he was caught spending a lot of time online e.g. on GN instead of working.?

The point is Mollygo, its not hard work if somebody else works out your schedule and does all the booking, if someone else does all the research and gives you the brief to read. Its not hard work if someone else manages your wardrobe and keeps track of what you wore and when. Its not hard work if your wardrobe mistress (is that a thing?) knows what you like to wear and sources it for you.

Maybe they do work hard, but the things cited are not good examples of them working hard. Because they don't do these things. So what do they do?

Precisely, we don’t know whether someone else does all their research- but we think we know. We don’t know whether they keep track of what they wore, (the media certainly do).
When I am doing presentations, I find it easier to organise them myself rather than parrot what someone else has written because it may be incorrect or not how I would say it. I expect , but I don’t know that the RF do too.

Ah, the mystique of the Royal Family....

Senior people in organisations get briefed. They don't parrot things back, they take the brief on board and assimilate it. But maybe our Royal Family don't do that and they spend hours and hours doing their own research on Licoricia of Winchester.

www.princeofwales.gov.uk/diary

So it’s OK for senior people in organisations to get briefed, but at 13.06 you were criticising the senior RF for having someone do the research and hand them a brief.
Whatever!

No, I wasn't criticising them for it. I said they did it and anybody trying to say they spent hours getting ready for visits needs to bear that in mind.