Camilla to be crowned.

Blossoming

Of course Camilla will be crowned. She’s married to the King, them’s the rules.

I’m not a monarchist.

Yep!

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.

It’s a shame that Charles was encouraged to marry Diana so the country could have heirs, when he and Camilla had been an item for so long. But then had he been allowed to marry Camilla in the first place (and as likely no children from that marriage) then Andrew would have been Heir Apparent.

Perish the thought!

What’s done is done. Camilla has stuck by him and earned the respect of his late mother, his children and many others by her quiet dignity. .

eazybee

^Historically a man marrying a woman who was Queen in her own right became the King (and tended to take over from his wife)^
Not in this country.
The only royal spouse to be accorded the title of King was William 111, husband of Mary Stuart, at the invitation of Parliament and as a descendant of Charles1 ; Philip of Spain, husband of Mary Tudor was King of Spain, not of England, and the husbands of Matilda, Anne, Victoria and Elizabeth were Dukes and/or Princes in their own right but never Kings.

Exactly, eazybee.

Though I believe that Victoria wanted Albert to be 'King' and was a bit miffed when it wasn't allowed ?

I really couldn't care less what Camilla is called and the fact that she will be crowned doesn't bother me at all. I think raking over a 25 year old scandal that has no bearing at all on the present day, or the work she will continue to do, is a bit sad...

I am hoping to be able to book a holiday overseas that weekend. Get away from the inane fawning reporting from "Royal experts". It will have little impact on my life, good luck to them both, 10 years older than me and having to take on all these duties. I too am more of the pottering with a spaniel and trug full of bulbs type of person.

I'm very far from being a royalist, but I can't see any reason why she shouldn't be crowned. She is clearly a huge support to Charles, works hard as patron of a number of charities which are close to her heart and doesn't actively seek out the limelight. I suspect those who remain rabidly against her are the same ones who think Diana was some kind of saint or angel, which was far from the truth.

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

Why have a coronation very costly millions, other European monarchies don't ?

Cost of living crises

Government and monarchy waiting to see publics reaction to this spending.

I didn't say you can't make judgments about people we don't know. I was talking about timescale.

Yep, it's my supposition.

I am allowed to do what everyone else does.

GrannyGravy13

I like our Queen Consort Camilla.

She stays quietly in the background supporting the King and carrying out many many visits to the charities she has been patron of for years, some before she married the present King. She doesn’t court publicity.

I have absolutely no problem with her being crowned as such.

completely agree

RichmondPark1

25 years is a helluva long time to bear a grudge about a person you don't know from Adam, based on information provided third hand by the notoriously untrustworthy tabloid press.

Camilla must REALLY love Charles to have put up with everything she's tolerated over the years. Now she has to take this job on at a time in her life when most of us can relax. If I were her I'd wish I'd stayed happily single in my country house in Wiltshire and could spend my days wafting about with a terrier and a trug full of bulbs.

You say we can't make judgments about people we don't know, yet state Camilla must really love Charles .Do you know her or is that your supposition? You're just doing what everyone else does.

Of course Camilla will be crowned. She’s married to the King, them’s the rules.

I’m not a monarchist.

Not particularly fussed but think Camilla might be respected more if she refused to be crowned, if only out of consideration for William and Harry who will still have feelings about what happened to Diana their mother.
This should have been Diana, not their father’s lover, however happy she may have made Charles. Whatever positive face they put on it, it can’t be easy for them.

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.

She’s his wife end of.

Exactly MiniMoon

25 years is a helluva long time to bear a grudge about a person you don't know from Adam, based on information provided third hand by the notoriously untrustworthy tabloid press.

Camilla must REALLY love Charles to have put up with everything she's tolerated over the years. Now she has to take this job on at a time in her life when most of us can relax. If I were her I'd wish I'd stayed happily single in my country house in Wiltshire and could spend my days wafting about with a terrier and a trug full of bulbs.

Grantanow

Waste of time this discussion when the UK is in such a mess caused by Truss and Kwarteng.

I agree, can the country really afford the Coronation? Is it appropriate at this time of austerity? It is an archaic institution that we should be looking to cut down to the minimum. Camilla has got her man. let's wait and see how she copes.

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was crowned alongside her husband King George VI.
I'm sure that after the coronation Camilla will be known as Queen Camilla and not Camilla Queen Consort which is a bit long winded.

King - oops sorry Your Majesty.

Oh for goodness sake what does it matter. She is Queen Consort whether you like it or not and Queen's get a coronation.

For the record I like her and what she has done for our king is inestimable.

Historically a man marrying a woman who was Queen in her own right became the King (and tended to take over from his wife)
Not in this country.
The only royal spouse to be accorded the title of King was William 111, husband of Mary Stuart, at the invitation of Parliament and as a descendant of Charles1 ; Philip of Spain, husband of Mary Tudor was King of Spain, not of England, and the husbands of Matilda, Anne, Victoria and Elizabeth were Dukes and/or Princes in their own right but never Kings.

Kalu

*Growstuff*, one simply can’t request others to forget someone to make a point more valid.

Not asking anybody to forget anything or make anything "more valid". I don't understand the fuss about something which happened 25 years ago. I would have hoped we're all adult enough to have moved on.

Why have a coronation?

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I think Camilla deserves a crown for cheering a chivvying Prince Charles along. He can be petulant and has been spoiled and deferred to all his life (well apart from Gordonstoun) by courtiers and sycophants. I think it helps that he was besotted with her and she’s a year older and more of the real world. She smooths over his fractious temper but in private probably doesn’t put up with his nonsense. I bet she’s glad she kept her huge bolt hole to escape to now and again. Probably kicks off her shoes, no staff around and heaves a sigh of relief as she pours herself a G&T.

I read once, years ago, that the late Queen Mother liked the finer things in life a little too much. Hence her alarming overdraft that her daughter, HM the Queen, paid off. The QM spoiled Charles and instilled in him ‘having the best in everything’. He does rather enjoy the finer things in life.

His mother though, with her Tupperware containers at the breakfast table was less extravagant. More frugal really. Charles is cut from the same cloth as his grandmother!