The Queen Consort

[Anonymous]

Camilla and Charles have been together on and off since 1970. They dated briefly before he left for the Navy in 1971, and apparently Charles was smitten with her, but when he returned in 1973 she had gotten engaged to someone else. Charles was heartbroken and tried to stop her from marrying Parker Bowles. His family also didn't fully approve of their relationship even then as she didn't meet the requirements at the time for a future Queen.

Parker Bowles cheated on Camilla not long after they were married. Rumor has it he had multiple dalliances and in 1978 Camilla began the affair with Charles (still single at the time) but given she was married and had a child and with no hope of ever being able to be with Charles, they kept it an affair. Her husband was aware and given his own activities, apparently wasn't particularly perturbed.

Charles met Diana in 1980 after courting her sister and she was put forward as an acceptable future Queen, virginal and from an aristocratic family and checking all the right boxes. Charles continued to see Camilla at least in friendship and she attended his wedding to Diana. They resumed their affair relatiosnhip in 1986 and Diana knew from the start and confronted them. Given Diana and Charles were not particularly in love, she told Camilla, I know I am in the way and this is hell for you both but back off, 3 in a marriage is too many. However Diana then began her own affair with James Hewitt the same year and for the next five years Diana and James were in love and Charles and Camilla continued their own love story. Then they divorced, news of the Charles and Camilla affair went public and there were a few rough years before Charles and Camilla began showing up in the same places around 1995 and despite disapproval from the Queen who felt Diana and Charles might have been able to really give their marriage a go if Camilla has not been around - Charles introduced Camilla to his sons in 1998 and they went public again as a couple about 1999. In 2000, the Queen first acknowledged them as a couple and Camilla began attending engagements with Charles.

They moved in together in 2003, aand got engaged and married in 2005.

Camilla has talked about the vitriol and hatred she received for the affair but says she always had the support of her family who knew the full situation. These two have been in love for 52 plus years and despite it all, they are now King and Queen. I am glad she has finally gotten acceptance and recognition after all the years of hate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Camilla and Charles have been together on and off since 1970. They dated briefly before he left for the Navy in 1971, and apparently Charles was smitten with her, but when he returned in 1973 she had gotten engaged to someone else. Charles was heartbroken and tried to stop her from marrying Parker Bowles. His family also didn't fully approve of their relationship even then as she didn't meet the requirements at the time for a future Queen.

Parker Bowles cheated on Camilla not long after they were married. Rumor has it he had multiple dalliances and in 1978 Camilla began the affair with Charles (still single at the time) but given she was married and had a child and with no hope of ever being able to be with Charles, they kept it an affair. Her husband was aware and given his own activities, apparently wasn't particularly perturbed.

Charles met Diana in 1980 after courting her sister and she was put forward as an acceptable future Queen, virginal and from an aristocratic family and checking all the right boxes. Charles continued to see Camilla at least in friendship and she attended his wedding to Diana. They resumed their affair relatiosnhip in 1986 and Diana knew from the start and confronted them. Given Diana and Charles were not particularly in love, she told Camilla, I know I am in the way and this is hell for you both but back off, 3 in a marriage is too many. However Diana then began her own affair with James Hewitt the same year and for the next five years Diana and James were in love and Charles and Camilla continued their own love story. Then they divorced, news of the Charles and Camilla affair went public and there were a few rough years before Charles and Camilla began showing up in the same places around 1995 and despite disapproval from the Queen who felt Diana and Charles might have been able to really give their marriage a go if Camilla has not been around - Charles introduced Camilla to his sons in 1998 and they went public again as a couple about 1999. In 2000, the Queen first acknowledged them as a couple and Camilla began attending engagements with Charles.

They moved in together in 2003, aand got engaged and married in 2005.

Camilla has talked about the vitriol and hatred she received for the affair but says she always had the support of her family who knew the full situation. These two have been in love for 52 plus years and despite it all, they are now King and Queen. I am glad she has finally gotten acceptance and recognition after all the years of hate.

Nice fanfic. Camilla married Parker Bowles because she preferred him to Charles. I also think that she didn’t want to have royal children or to have to deal with his family (who even then were obviously dysfunctional which would have been noticeable to her because of her happy family life). She only settled for Charles because her first choice didn’t want her. Also Charles was rumored to have had other affairs/lovers throughout notably with his friends wife Kanga and the boys nanny. But they do seem happy now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she outlives Charles, she’ll become the Dowager Queen. She’ll probably be set up in a cottage in Windsor park and live out her life ignored by her stepson.

He can kick her out completely unless Charles leaves her one of his properties.

You’re talking about William? He’s not going to do that. They’re quite close now.

That’s no kind of security. He used to be quite close to Carole Middleton too but now finds her annoying and hasn’t been pictured with her in eons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, Diana was nobody before marrying Charles so whatever she became, was because of his status. It didn't seem she was even attracted to him, she dated Hasnaat Khan and Dodi Fayed.

On other side, Charles would've been nobody if not born into privilege and he cheated on his wife and didn't have a backbone to say no to marry her.

Diana was a Spencer.

Kate Middleton's mom comes from a family of coal miners.

There are lots of people with titles in UK but no one cares about them. Kate was William's college sweetheart, not an arranged marriage with someone 12 year younger he had nothing in common with.

DP. People in the UK absolutely care about titles. Don’t be absurd. Family lineage over there is like what money is over here in terms of social status.

But you are right that will and Kate new each other much better at marriage than his parents did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Americans are funny

(at least those in this thread!!)

Brit reading this and I agree! Extremely weird!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Dowager Queens were shipped off to nunneries. No? Regardless, they'll put her away in a residence and she won't make many appearances after Charles dies.

Have you never heard of a dowager cottage?

Charles and Camilla have already said they are staying at Clarence House where they already live, not moving to BP. So when Charles dies (if he goes first), Camilla will just continue to live in Clarence House until she dies, because Will and Kate don't want to live there anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one is going to pay them any more attention now than they ever did. They are boring and uneventful. All eyes will remain on W&K.

I cannot believe that he didn’t just pass it along to William. Now Charles might be around another 25 years!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If she outlives Charles, she’ll become the Dowager Queen. She’ll probably be set up in a cottage in Windsor park and live out her life ignored by her stepson.

He can kick her out completely unless Charles leaves her one of his properties.

You’re talking about William? He’s not going to do that. They’re quite close now.

That’s no kind of security. He used to be quite close to Carole Middleton too but now finds her annoying and hasn’t been pictured with her in eons.

Source?

[Anonymous]

If Camilla outlives Charles, it likely won’t be for long (just being realistic given their ages). There is no chance William will rock the boat- she will be well treated even if he does still hold some resentment over the past. Anything else would not look good at all in the public eye, and I don’t think Kate would go along with it either (nor the children, as she has been a grandmother figure to them)

[Anonymous]

If Charles goes before Camilla she'll have plenty of $. I'm guessing that this has been figured out, and she isn't all that worrried.

My bet is that she would not necessarily remain at Clarence House (unless she stayed a working royal). Highgrove and a couple of other properties are part of the duchy of cornwall (so are William's now?), but Charles also inherited a couple of properties from his grandmother in Scotland, those might pass to Camilla. She'll be able to buy real estate wherever she wants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hate her.

Diana should be queen

Yup. Camilla doesn't deserve this. She's no Queen Consort to me. She continued to pursue Charles while he was with Diana. He should have stuck it out with the mother of his children for the sake of the crown and Diana would have been exiting that vehicle today. So sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Americans are funny

(at least those in this thread!!)

Brit reading this and I agree! Extremely weird!

What makes you think all of the posters in this thread are Americans? There are at least two of you posting here who apparently aren't...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Americans are funny

(at least those in this thread!!)

Brit reading this and I agree! Extremely weird!

What makes you think all of the posters in this thread are Americans? There are at least two of you posting here who apparently aren't...

We're weird and yet you're on an American site after agreeing a 96-year-old nepotism baby was the caretaker of Britain's soul or some nonsense like that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Camilla and Charles have been together on and off since 1970. They dated briefly before he left for the Navy in 1971, and apparently Charles was smitten with her, but when he returned in 1973 she had gotten engaged to someone else. Charles was heartbroken and tried to stop her from marrying Parker Bowles. His family also didn't fully approve of their relationship even then as she didn't meet the requirements at the time for a future Queen.

Parker Bowles cheated on Camilla not long after they were married. Rumor has it he had multiple dalliances and in 1978 Camilla began the affair with Charles (still single at the time) but given she was married and had a child and with no hope of ever being able to be with Charles, they kept it an affair. Her husband was aware and given his own activities, apparently wasn't particularly perturbed.

Charles met Diana in 1980 after courting her sister and she was put forward as an acceptable future Queen, virginal and from an aristocratic family and checking all the right boxes. Charles continued to see Camilla at least in friendship and she attended his wedding to Diana. They resumed their affair relatiosnhip in 1986 and Diana knew from the start and confronted them. Given Diana and Charles were not particularly in love, she told Camilla, I know I am in the way and this is hell for you both but back off, 3 in a marriage is too many. However Diana then began her own affair with James Hewitt the same year and for the next five years Diana and James were in love and Charles and Camilla continued their own love story. Then they divorced, news of the Charles and Camilla affair went public and there were a few rough years before Charles and Camilla began showing up in the same places around 1995 and despite disapproval from the Queen who felt Diana and Charles might have been able to really give their marriage a go if Camilla has not been around - Charles introduced Camilla to his sons in 1998 and they went public again as a couple about 1999. In 2000, the Queen first acknowledged them as a couple and Camilla began attending engagements with Charles.

They moved in together in 2003, aand got engaged and married in 2005.

Camilla has talked about the vitriol and hatred she received for the affair but says she always had the support of her family who knew the full situation. These two have been in love for 52 plus years and despite it all, they are now King and Queen. I am glad she has finally gotten acceptance and recognition after all the years of hate.

. Full situation?

She was an adulterous and ruined others happiness. And Charles was giving her gifts even at the time of this marriage to. Diana.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought Dowager Queens were shipped off to nunneries. No? Regardless, they'll put her away in a residence and she won't make many appearances after Charles dies.

Have you never heard of a dowager cottage?

Charles and Camilla have already said they are staying at Clarence House where they already live, not moving to BP. So when Charles dies (if he goes first), Camilla will just continue to live in Clarence House until she dies, because Will and Kate don't want to live there anyway.

The royals lie all the time. Charles also said Camilla who? for twenty years and let's not forget he promised that she would be known as Princess Consort when he became King.

Then William said the $15 million spent to renovate the Kensington Palace apartments would be his permanent and main home - then came Anmer Hall and Adelaide Cottage last week.