Camilla

Is she ill?
I notice you posted on "health".
Maybe this was just an error?

I'm not a "royalist" but think they are good together. And Diana has been dead so long now... and was not a good match in the first place (in my opinion).

It can't be a very long time anyway before it's all passed on to William - as Charles is not a young man.

The wife of the king will inevitably be queen.

I think they make a good couple, far better suited than Charles and Diana.

Me too, far better suited. We've moved on anyway. It is what it is. Camilla has proved herself worthy and will be crowned.
But don't watch if it upsets you. It's your choice.

Struggling? Really?

Don't watch then.

Its a great pity that Charles did not marry Camilla when they first met, but thats another story. I too was a Diana fan but they were ill suited for marriage. There were faults on both sides.

Clearly Charles did not appreciate being married to a global superstar (who would) and did not appreciate being outshone. Camilla is good for him and the ideal consort as she does not thrust herself forward or seek to efface him.

I won't be watching either but that's nothing to do with Camilla or Diana or monarchism/royalism. We simply don't have a telly.

Baggs

I won't be watching either but that's nothing to do with Camilla or Diana or monarchism/royalism. We simply don't have a telly.

😂😂😂

Well this is what you get with a hereditary monarchy, you don't get to choose who is crowned, they do.

If only there was a way of choosing who was Head of State...

Baggs
That’s funny 🤣

She and Charles love each other. I have no problem with her being Queen.

I do wonder about if Diana had still been alive if she would have still been seen as such a wonderful person , I was never much of a fan and can't understand all the praise that is still heaped on her TBH. I bet she would have been married at least twice by now to people with very big bank accounts and living the high life abroad. Charles should have been allowed to marry Camilla when they were young but the powers that be interfering in this I think talked the queen out of allowing this. That is the disgrace. I will admit Diana was a lamb to the slaughter , young not to worldly wise but it came back to bite them all on the backside.

I'm not a royalist particularly, and won't be watching the coronation, but I do think that it's right for Camilla to be crowned queen. As others have said, Diana has been dead for a while now, and she and Charles were never a good match. The rest of us are entitled to start again after an unsatisfactory marriage, so why not them? We need more, rather than less happiness in the world!

Much prefer Camilla, thought Diana was not never the right woman for Charles. You just had to look at the body language to see that.
From that painful interview at the engagement they seemed not to be connecting.
This still outcome would still be the conclusion if Diana was still alive, Camilla was always going to be The Queen.

I read once that, Camilla was the sort of woman who would go out in the pouring rain to sort the kids rabbits out. That resonated with me, as I used to do that.
They adore each other, much better fit.

Koalama

As a royalist but also a princess Diana fan, I'm struggling, I can't stand to see camilla crowned queen, I don't want to watch, it's making me less of a royalist, I wish he'd just pass it on to William and Kate

So don’t watch!
No one will make you watch, sitting or standing, or care whether you watch,
or care whether you are a Diana fan or not.
I don’t see your problem.

Things have moved on, she's his wife so can't see any reason why she should not be Queen.

Not true that they wanted to marry when they first dated.

I'm pretty much indifferent to the monarchy, but will probably watch some of the coronation as it's History with a capital H.

I neither like nor dislike any of them (Andrew aside, obviously), but agree that Charles and Camilla make a good couple, and Diana was clearly unsuited to both him and the role as it turned out to be. She was great at being a celebrity and at using that celebrity for good causes, but not at standing by when the man she loved was carrying on an affair with someone else. Who would be?

I am much the same Koalama. And am not even exactly sure why.
I felt a bit better with her being Queen consort.
I think for me it may be death by a thousand cuts type thing as regards the Royals.
Will watch bits.
As I have said elsewhere on here I think, partly it is I feel I have watched royal things over and over. Though not a coronation.
I have mixed feelings.

He should have married Camilla in the first place instead of waiting around and leaving it too late.
We can’t choose who we like as King or Queen, but yeah, don’t watch if it affects you.

In the 90’s Charles was moaning, if reports are to be believed, that his mother should retire because she was 70 years old, both Camilla and he are about that age now

I too like Camilla, she is wonderfully unobtrusive, warm and amusing.. why wouldn't Charles prefer her..

I'm not a monarchist (and I was never a Diana fan, I saw through her early on) but as the monarch is what we have, for the time being, then Camilla is the right person for the job of consort to Charles and I don't dislike Charles as a person either.

Diana would have been a disaster as Queen Consort. She would never have agreed to walk two steps behind her husband (as the "man's man" Philip felt able to do for the late Queen) and would have constantly insisted on being the centre of attention, upstaging him at every opportunity.

I think it is safe to say I will not be watching the coronation on TV or attending any street parties.

I don’t take to Camilla, and I can’t even say why. It’s nothing to do with Diana. She just doesn’t seem very queen-like to me. I was reading the words of the service and thinking how absurd “Vivat Regina Camilla” sounded. I don’t like the word ‘commoner’, but that’s what she is, and I don’t see how marriage to Charles will change that.