Camilla

I suppose she didn’t think about the role she might one day have to play when she took up with Charles as a young woman. Maybe she should have left things as they were at the time.

Franbern

Yammy

Franbern

I am certain that history will record Charles and Camilla as one of the great royal love stories.

They were in love when they were both very young, and it never changed, They are so fortunate that they are able to spend these latter years together.

I think Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip can beat that without even going back in history or how about Victoria and Albert the poor woman never came out of mourning after his death.

Victoria made a fetish out of her mourning.

That's your opinion ,might not be others. My great gran lost her husband in 1914 and was still wearing mourning for him when she died in 1956.
What do you think about the late queen and Prince Philip a love match or a put-up job by the Mountbattens?

I like her.
Although I didnt and still dont like the way their relationship was handled.
So much fall out for their families to bear.
I did read she only spent 3 days a week in London before.
I'm sure she is well prepared for what is to come.
People day she has a stoic and jolly personality. Not unlike the late Queen

As a bereavement psychotherapist I am watching the media very carefully. The whole circus has the potential to develop within the family something called 'complicated grief' or 'prolonged grief disorder' and if truth be known, this is what Harry has been suffering for years as the trauma of his mother's death was never reconciled. I look at Camilla and wonder how she is still on her feet. Many of us in our 70s say openly that we don't have the energy to look after our small grandchildren the way we might have done a decade ago - Camilla has to look after herself and a king, and still try to win the support of a portion of the general public. I'm not a royalist but I recognise hard work being done when I see it, and likewise recognise emotional stress. Both of these are visibly present in Camilla.

It was the first thing I noticed when I saw her yesterday. I must be very tiring for her. I have spent the last 4 hours on my feet and I am going to spend the afternoon sitting down. She is also a bit younger than me but not much. I hope she gets to opt out of the official duties when she feels she has had enough for the day.

Aveline

Such an overwhelming programme of events while coming to terms with their bereavement. I hope they'll have time to relax and recover a bit after next Monday.

Exactly this. Such an onerous timetable!

I have been hearing a lot, these past few days, about the work the Queen Consort has been doing over the past several years for different charities. I am quite impressed. She has always known her role and will have to now take on even more...now in the limelight rather than in the background. She is looking really tired though.

holcombemummy60

Am I missing something poor Camilla it her own fault it’s why she broke up a marriage to get what she wanted everyone one was up on arms then . Diana was used as a brood mare then dumped . I am sorry for the loss of the Queen as our queen also a mother grandmother great grandmother and auntie, but that’s where it ends . No doubt I have upset people now but people have short memories . I’m sure I’m not the only one who feels like this. I am not anti monarchy but anti what adultery does to people

Well, that's one way of looking at it.

My reading of the situation was that Charles married on the late side because he had to, in order to provide an heir. He should have done so years earlier - why else were there so many little Habsburg daughters as bridesmaids for Princess Margaret, if it wasn't with an eye to a suitable bride in the future for Charles?

Charles married, knowing full well that he was in love with a woman who was already married, so he couldn't marry her.

No-one seems to know whether he and Diana were happy or not to start off with - later on she indicated that they hadn't been and that Charles and Camilla were "seeing each other" all along.

Water under the bridge - and it is Charles and Camilla's business not ours.

Yes, they are in mourning, and yes that is hard, but...
... they have always known that they would need to do some of their mourning in public, and that the Queen's death would precipitate the new King into a round of arduous ceremonies.

Let's leave bygones as bygones and just feel sorry that they look and feel tired, as they surely must.

The travelling alone would be onerous for a young person.

rafichagran

I like Camilla and I wish her well.

me too,she's shown amazing resilience and Charles seems very happy with her

Yes. I get fed up with these holier than thou posters who are stuck in the past. She’s put up with a great deal of nastiness and proved herself to be a good, hardworking woman who has been very supportive of Charles.

The King seems to want Camilla very close to him-I think she will be an absolute rock to him and will do an amazing job. Wish them both well.

Bit mystified here GrandetantJE65. I remember Princess Margaret’s wedding particularly as at the time I was determined to marry in a veil just like hers!

Surely apart from Princess Anne, all the other little bridesmaids were ‘daughters of the nobility’ of this country and I don’t recall anyone having a distinctive jawline! If I am wrong, I would love to know which were Hapsburgs and were being lined up as prospective brides, it would be interesting to know what happened to them, and whether they fulfilled their parents’ ambitions for them.

I do agree with you about leaving the King and Queen alone, I think that they are standing up to it all really well at the moment, and following their visit to Wales later in the week I hope they get a rest before the funeral.

So very hard for them both at the moment - and the slightest slip they'll be pilloried. Hoping their health holds for the next few days and then they can try to get a new routine. Just the simple stuff - they can't even have a half hour for lunch at the mo!

I respect her work and support she provides yes gruelling schedules on top of grief. Not for faint hearted. -
remain thinking though that she interfered in a marriage that may or may not have been doomed had she disappeared off the scene I feel that was bad behaviour poor Diana was treated so shabbily it could have had a good ending if Camille wasn’t available to Charles. Diana adored him but put in impossible position in front of the world ☺️

Do Comilla’s children be included. I must check if she has any actually
To say to Diana ‘ but you have his children ‘ unforgivable really. Sorry ☺️

I'm pleased to see this rather more sympathetic and understanding thread. I posted much the same sentiments on the 'King Charles' thread this moring, as I felt he looked tired and commented that this was a difficult time for them all with so much coverage and much to do, and a poster suggested that they were all well up to it as they had marched up and down the hills at Balmoral as children!

I bet they glad when can sit down for a cuppa. I feel sorry for all the family because king and queen have had to do so much in such a short time knowing that they in a gold fish bowl while grieving for the queen and trying to smile but I’m not surprised they look shattered. But other day when Anne sat in car for over six and a half hours all I kept thinking was how she didn’t stop off for a pee because I don’t think I could have gone that long. lol. But what I do like is Charles and Camille are so much in love with each other and support each other. Camille as gone through so much to stand by her man lol

Of course Camilla has children Polly , Tom and Laura
I’m surprised that you didn’t know

The cortège stopped half way through the journey on Sunday, NannaShirl, for ‘comfort and to change drivers. They pulled off the dual carriageway at the junction for Brechin, in Angus. There is both a cathedral and a castle there.

C & C were made for each other. They have loved each other for a very long time and they are happy. But, he should never have agreed to marry Diana……poor girl ?

I hope posters who keep dragging up the past have led spot
less live. I know I haven't but I keep trying

spotless lives

Nanashirl I was wondering that as well ?

Some peace and quiet that's what nith Camilla and Charles need, all the family in fact. In their 70s abd having to perform as if nothing has happened. Yesterday I though Charles looked so tired and as if he was trying hard to hold back emotions. Camilla looked so unsteady on her high heels for so long. Sure she'd rather have a pair of boots on. I wish them well in their arduous tasks ahead.

No one knows what went on behind closed doors only the ppl involved and not all marriages work. They both had affairs and unless you were in there homes you don’t know nothing only what media tells you. and you can’t live in the past you have to move on and I say God save our King and Queen