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Camilla to be crowned.

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Esspee Wed 12-Oct-22 08:03:12

I was prepared to ignore the coronation, but for Charles to insist that his now wife be crowned is beyond the pale in my opinion.
I realise there are a huge number of royalists on Gransnet but do any of you agree with me that she should not be crowned?

nadateturbe Wed 12-Oct-22 20:33:09

Can't say your second post is any better VdeV.

volver Wed 12-Oct-22 19:29:25

He’s got nothing going for him, no talent, no vision, and now just spends his days releasing press pieces, picking at a scab no one’s interested in seeing.

mobile.twitter.com/DrTedros/status/1580168541772206080

Waste of space, eh? Don't know how he manages to get out of bed in the morning. What a waste of a life.

(Sarcasm alert)

VenusDeVillendorf Wed 12-Oct-22 19:21:07

Look, you may think my posts are not very nice but William himself has said he’s over his mother’s death, and at her 20th anniversary he said he wanted to lay her to rest and move on.

It’s Harry who’s digging her up every time he opens his mouth, and has merchandised her death, and keeps banging that old drum for the cash.

I’m just stating facts. Sometimes they’re not pretty. I do wish Harry would get over his fury about being the spare - but he isn’t even that anymore - Charlotte is, and he just seems stuck in the past like a some kind of manikin statue.

Yes, Charles shouldn’t have married Diana but there was IMMENSE pressure from his family to do so, and from her’s too.
He wanted to marry Camilla, his family wouldn’t let him.
Diana wanted to back out, her family wouldn’t let her. Arranged marriages work out as well as love matches, but Diana didn’t know the rules, she didn’t know what her job was, and was stupendously ignorant, as she said herself.

I think William is the best of them tbh. He’s done the most work on himself and was careful about who he chose to share his life with. He’s used his brains, he’s done his inner work, and accepted the assignment.

Harry jumped in to marry someone he didn’t really know against all advice and left his family behind for a Californian gold rush which seems to be nothing but fool’s gold.
He’s got nothing going for him, no talent, no vision, and now just spends his days releasing press pieces, picking at a scab no one’s interested in seeing.
Harry’s life is now a tragedy- but he rushed in where angels fear to tread. Just like his self proclaimed unbrainy mum did. She wanted the big white Abbey wedding, but didn’t want the marriage, and what it entailed.

Harry could have done so well in Africa, but he’s made his bed now in the US, and he can lie in it - or make his life abroad as King Charles said.

I support King Charles’s decision to slim down the monarchy. Even the Queen Elizabeth 2 demoted the other spare prince, Andrew.

Queen Margarethe of Denmark also has a spare wheel problem it seems. She’s consciously uncoupled that 2nd Prince and set him off to live his best life abroad, and well done Her I say!

Too many spare Princes spoil the Monarchy.

Camilla had been steady and steadfast in Charles’ life. She deserves to be honoured and crowned as Queen. She was and is Charles’s true love long before poor foolish Diana was on the scene.

Don’t get me wrong Diana had her qualities, but crikey she wasn’t for the long haul. She couldn’t accept the assignment.

Camilla has legs for the journey and is a perfect partner for the rather emotional Charles. It’s a pity they couldn’t marry when they wanted - they’re clearly karmic together.

Sarah74 Wed 12-Oct-22 17:14:35

Anniebach

Nothing can take away his grief but his work for mental health
will have helped him to understand his mother’s choices

Knowing you’re not a fan of Diana, or Harry, that is a sensible and kind post.

Floriel Wed 12-Oct-22 17:11:12

I think Camilla’s great, warm and humorous. It’s very sad that his first marriage didn’t work out, but at least he didn’t leave Diana for a younger woman.
He wanted his ‘devoted old bag’ as she apparently calls herself - and doesn’t that tell us something nice about her!

nadateturbe Wed 12-Oct-22 17:01:44

VenusDeVillendorf you're correct about Charles and Camilla.
But he shouldn't have married Diana. He was older and more mature, and knew he didn't love her.
The rest of your post is very unpleasant.

Norah Wed 12-Oct-22 16:59:00

Anniebach

So William and Kate should take on the charities of Anne,
Edward and Sophie and carry out their public duties

Brilliant. Public "duties" could be pared back, as well.

They really could work the hours of other mortals, albeit at high wage.

MissAdventure Wed 12-Oct-22 16:55:20

I cant see any reason why not.

We've all been advised to take on more work, and its easier from a position of privilege.

They can have more staff to help out.

Anniebach Wed 12-Oct-22 16:51:51

So William and Kate should take on the charities of Anne,
Edward and Sophie and carry out their public duties

MissAdventure Wed 12-Oct-22 16:50:32

I quite like Camilla.
She is certainly the right woman for Charles, I think.

It's not necessary to hate Diana in order to like Camilla, though.

BlueBelle Wed 12-Oct-22 16:48:02

I m not much of a royalist very Luke warm I m afraid BUT I like Camilla and think it’s right she should be crowned Queen

Just Charles , Camilla , William and Kate should be the only paid Royals the rest should get a job

Anniebach Wed 12-Oct-22 16:47:54

Nothing can take away his grief but his work for mental health
will have helped him to understand his mother’s choices

MissAdventure Wed 12-Oct-22 16:43:34

Lucky old William, eh, to be over the death of his Mum.

Lucca Wed 12-Oct-22 16:39:07

VenusDeVillendorf

You know if you think about it, Charles married the love of his life. And Diana, good bless her was the third wheel.

Charles loved Camilla from the start. He had to marry Diana to have an heir. Diana knew this and her family encouraged it as it lifted the Spencer family.
I’d Diana had been clever at all and had read anything other than Mills and Boon, she would have understood the assignment.

Charles is with the love of his life, married and happy. Camilla helps Charles and will make the job he’s assigned to do easier, so yes she should be Queen.

William is well over his mother’s divorce, and death, as he’s a contemplative and clever man. He’s put in the work to move on, and he’s invested his time in selecting a clever supportive partner in life. She gets the assignment too.

Harry is stupid like his mother - Diana even said as much- and has to make money being a victim of circumstance, rehashing his childhood.
He has to complain about everything to earn his living, and keep his wife in luxury.
Neither of them understand the assignment. They are in a hell of their own making.

No doubt we’ll all be hearing how his Diamond slippers are too tight in his ghost written book: His Truth. Yawnsville.

So yes, Queen Camilla should be crowned imo.

What an unpleasant post. Whatever Diana’s faults she died tragically young.leave her alone for goodness sake.

Of course harry has to earn money as does his wife who is more than capable of doing so as she did before she married him. You re free not to like them of course

Daddima Wed 12-Oct-22 16:19:38

I wonder if the naysayers would ignore Diana’s ‘ indiscretions’ if they had patched things up and she were still around to be crowned, or would she be judged and found wanting?

Blinko Wed 12-Oct-22 15:55:42

Why are some people still going on about Diana? They didn't make each other happy, she wasn't the one for him nor he for her. Get over it!

Camilla should be crowned and known as Queen. Which is what will happen.

growstuff Wed 12-Oct-22 15:13:21

Kalu

*growstuff*, please don’t resort to insulting innuendos by claiming those who, don't move on are puerile. Let’s keep the discussion civilised.

grin

Are you sure you're actually reading my posts? confused

Norah Wed 12-Oct-22 14:52:21

Camilla is the King's wife, of course she'll be crowned.

I can't imagine why not. A matter, I think, of what the Queen wanted and Charles wants - they get (didn't a prince say similar of his wife).

I doubt his children care, they've their own wives to placate.

Cabbie21 Wed 12-Oct-22 14:38:29

Lovetopaint037

At one time I would have been horrified but not now. She has earned a change of heart. Also this country has so many problems and this decision is such a small matter in the grand scheme of things. Let’s have some calm and let them all get on with it. It may even earn the country some money and grab back a little of our lost prestige.

This.

I gather it is to be on a much smaller scale than the last one, more fitting with the current times,

Jaberwok Wed 12-Oct-22 14:35:44

easybee you are quite right, the spouse of a King is a Queen, as in spouses from the Conquerer onwards. The only exception were William 111rd and Mary11nd. This arrangement was agreed for exceptional ccircumstances, As William was Stadholder in his own country, he wasn't prepared to be subordinate to his wife when she became Queen in her own right. So they were allowed to rule jointly or individually for their lifetime. This has never happened before or since. So Prince Philip would never have been crowned King, anymore than Princes Albert and George,Lord Darnley, Guilford Dudley, Phillip of Spain or Geoffrey Plantagenet.

karmalady Wed 12-Oct-22 14:04:31

long live the queen, Camilla has earned the crown. Stood by Charles and been his support through thick and thin

Grany Wed 12-Oct-22 14:01:58

Twitter

Charles sees no problem with accepting bags of cash from Qatari politicians with questionable human rights records. If he were standing for election as head of state he would lose, and lose badly.
#NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

merlotgran Wed 12-Oct-22 13:48:33

This should have been Diana, not their father’s lover,

Bit difficult when you’re dead!.

Juicywords Wed 12-Oct-22 13:45:28

Why, if the Duke of Edinburgh was not crowned at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, should Camilla have a crown now?

Shinamae Wed 12-Oct-22 13:35:22

rosie1959

Shinamae

According to a royal commentator on Jeremy Vine this morning ,she doesn’t understand why the word consort is being used and that Camilla will be the “Queen”

Camilla to my knowledge will be Queen Consort she can’t be Queen she is not a reigning monarch

Well the royal correspondent was at pains to point out that she would be Queen and not Queen consort, whether she is right or wrong I have no idea..?‍♀️