New Royal Question - What Will Happen to Camilla?
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Anonymous
Not going to happen anytime soon. There are plenty of examples of diverse royal partners, but gay partners aren't really something you see in the royal families yet. Especially considering Harry is 6th in line and regardless of the unlikelihood of him inheriting, the monarchy runs on familial lineage. If Prince A married Lord B, the perennial question would be who fathered the surrogate's child and can you actually be sure? You think the BRF is going to release DNA tests? HA. I can see someone like Margaret's daughter's daughter being gay and that being okay though. |
Anonymous
She will fall into the dustbin of history
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Anonymous
Sorry - I'm not sad about that. She's not reviled like Rasputin nor forgotten like Queen Mary (the queen's grandmother). That's the best she could hope for considering where she started 30 years ago. |
Anonymous
Imagine him and Jason momoa being a couple. Rawr. |
Anonymous
It will happen at some point. Not Harry but another royal. The genius of the British monarchy is knowing when to adapt to survive. |
Anonymous
| Prince Edward has definitely hooked up with guys. |
Anonymous
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly I still hate Camilla. I hope wills reinstates Diana as hrh[/quote]
Charles has been happily married to Camilla for almost 15 years, the same number of years he was unhappily married to Diana If Charles dies first, Camilla will be his widow, but Diana will be nothing but his ex wife. The Royals thoroughly expunged Diana, and no grace or favor will ever be granted her, much less a title. [/quote] She still had a title at death and Diana is the only Royal still honored on the anniversary of her death date 20 years later, so I’m not sure where you’re coming from. An kd expunged is a funny word for a woman who has yearly special exhibitions at the palaces and a statue going up in her honor at Kensington Palace on the 23rd anniversary of her death. https://www.royal.uk/duke-cambridge-and-prince-harry-commission-statue-diana-princess-wales [b]A statue of Diana, Princess of Wales will be erected in the grounds of Kensington Palace at the request of her sons, The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry.[/b] [/quote] The poster suggested that Diana be reinstated with the title Her Royal Highness. All the adulation around Diana is an economic decision. She is good for the firm’s tourism business. She will never regain the hrh title nor will the royal family view her as anything but an asterisk. Had she lived, she would be treated the same way Sarah Ferguson was at her daughter’s wedding. Camilla would have center stage and Diana would be off to the side. [/quote] Highly unlikely Diana would have been a wallflower at her own sons' weddings. And in the weddings of Princess Anne's kids their biological father was the one in all the official pictures together with Anne, not her current husband.[/quote] Had Diana not died it's also not clear how her life would shape up. She was going through a messy period, hanging out with wholly unsuitable men and playboys with drug habits and people forget that in the last year or two she seemed to be going through a downward trajectory, there was a lot of disapproval of her dating Fayed. Had she continued in that direction who knows what would have happened to her. She was not made of strong stuff, unlike her sisters who would have been much better wives for Charles, ironically. And she clearly had emotional issues, unlike Sarah Ferguson. Her behaviour before she died was not suitable for the mother of a future king. In a way it's a good thing she died when she did. [/quote] I can't comment on her sisters, except to say Diana was an exemplary Princess of Wales. She represented Britain in a way never before seen and made changes on a global scale in less than two decades. It's not her fault Charles was such a sh*t husband. As for the men she was dating at the end, yes she had a thing for Muslim upper class men. I can't say I ever expected a future Queen of England to date men of the background she did, but Diana also was said to have been thinking that her marriage with someone of that background would help ease tensions between the Muslim and Christian community. Which was sorely needed then and is sorely needed now. [/quote] Neither of the Muslim she dated wanted to marry her. The physician dumped her because he couldn’t deal with her crazy She picked up with the playboy to make him jealous. There was a reason non Muslim Brits had nothing to do with her since her marital affairs. |
Anonymous
Disagree. Diana was a wingnut and we have no idea what she could have done to further embarrass the royals. In fact, I can see Charles married to Camilla and Diana being even more marginalized than Sarah Ferguson. The royals allowed Diana to do charity work but one word from them and no one woukd want her as a patron. They let her do the work to keep her at arms length. |
Anonymous
Ok Camilla lover. Diana was more powerful than they were while she was alive. There was a serious risk that Charles would have had to abdicate if Diana hadn’t passed. The public hated him and what he had done and didn’t want him as King. |
Anonymous
They could have never successfully marginalized her. Look at what happened when she died. They tried to power through and not recognize her death in the way the public wanted. The Queen initially refused to lower the Royal Standard. There was HUGE public backlash against the BRF, and they quickly caved to public demand and agreed to the elaborate public funeral. |
Anonymous
The Queen was wrong for how she responded to Diana’s death. So disrespectful. Didn’t leave her summer vacation home to mourn with the public for four days! Initially refused to let Charles bring her back by royal charter. No flags at half-mass. A one sentence note saying she was ‘shocked and distressed’ - nothing more. Eventually it was sorted but that was a clear incidence of the Queen’s pettiness. |
Anonymous
I don’t think it was petty so much as she was following protocol that adhered to Diana’s official post-divorce status. She was shocked at the enormity of the public’s grief, and it took her a while to recognize it and adapt accordingly. If you watched The Crown, this was kind of foreshadowed in the scenes where she’s called out by that columnist for being aloof and out of touch. She grudgingly takes his advice to make some changes, like meeting with the public, delivering a personal Christmas radio address, etc. |
Anonymous
The BRF uses protocol as a shield when they want it. It wasn't 'protocol' for the monarch's children and descendants to be given the name Mountbatten-Windsor and if you watch the Crown you'd know that the Queen eventually folded on that as well. Also didn't go against protocol for her to wear bare-shouldered gowns in the 40s and 50s. It also wasn't protocol for William's children to be labeled HRH's but again, the Queen issued letters patent and changed it. Protocol is protocol until the Queen decides it isn't. |
Anonymous
You’re mixing up The Crown and The Queen. And Diana died in August, the address given wasn’t at Christmas, it was the day before the funeral. |
Anonymous
PP was talking about what would be an earlier year in the queen’s life. In the late 50s. PP wasn’t saying that THAT was the Diana time. |