PRINCESS OF wALES??

[optomist]

Was it just me or did I hear , on the rolling news channel BBC, the reader refer to the 'arrival of the Prince and Princess of Wales.' yesterday.
About time too, I thought, and hope they won't be mealy mouthed about calling her Queen when the time comes...

[craft1948]

Ed Charlie admitted his adultery on the programme with Dimbleby......

[shaneystar2]

I rather like her . She seems like a down to earth sort of person. She's certainly no shrinking violet.
She'll be his Princess Consort I think, when and if he becomes King .
He's got to have someone to go about with and to be fair Diana was no angel either .

[2sp_]

I've not mentioned my personal opinions on any of the parties involved here, I just said that I thought that Camila wouldn't legally be allowed to be called Queen come Charles' shot at the throne.

Couldn't care less either way, to be honest.

[emmie]

had Charles stuck to his marriage vows then none of what followed would have happened, or have i missed something.

[Euphemia]

Isn't the whole conception of royalty a bit of an anachronism?

[chaptazbru]

But surely Diana only had affairs when her marriage was in tatters because of her husband and Camilla ? Was she supposed to live the life of a nun then ....

[emmie]

chapta, just what i was thinking..

[China Doll]

And if Charles had jumped off a cliffe would she have done that too? You don't commit bad behaviour just cause 'he did it first Miss'... that's a terribly childish and simplistic way of looking at things. Neither of them are innocnents. I imagine neither of them are hideous people either, just human.

[zebo]

Daffy64, you're brave aren't you! I too never liked her, I met her and Princess Anne in a short space of time and Anne was by far more naturally lovely, not caked up. I always felt that Diana was a sham, all those coy pictures of see-through skirts etc, yuk. Her late father wanted a Spencer grandchild in the succession, he failed with Mark 1, Sarah, but managed it with Diana. As for marital fidelity, it's not that strong in the Royal family. Off to the Tower now!

[chaptazbru]

I'll always come down on Diana's side em - I liked her and always will, don't care what anybody else thinks!

[Wharton]

This is like the Fawlty Towers episode where Basil shouts "The cat's dead, long live the cat". I repeat, does anyone really care?

[daffy654]

Not brave zebo, just honest. The woman was awful to her 'servants' when she thought nobody was within earshot, the shyness and caring was a complete act.

[emmie]

Charles was having an affair with Camilla before marrying Diana, why didn't he simply stick to being married, and if you aren't going to be faithful then don't fluffing well get married.

[jake-the-peg]

Look - Dianna was the fairytale princess

A commoner ( kind of ) who married a handsome (kind of ) prince and had a wedding with all the bells and whistles of every little Disney fantasy imaginable.


She went to all the glamous events and wore all the best designers and did all that charity work hugging AIDS babies in minefields

So half the women in the world identified with her, and fantasised about living her life.

So when her marriage started to fail and then she died in a dramatic car crash how could they see anything but a pantomime villan out of Camilla?


I haven't got a lot of time for Charles but I do think he deserves a bit of a break - they're obviously well suited to each other and happy together.

Whatever she's called I think the Dianna-Cultists should just grow up, get over themselves and leave them alone

[ummmm]

In an ideal world Em ...

[chaptazbru]

Agree em.

[emmie]

JTP can't you at least get her name right. Diana.

[NOX]

There are some hilarious individuals on here and no mistake.
So you are all perfect then, and know intimate details about some people you have never met, including their adultery, their lack of care or thought for anyone else, and their obvious unsuitability to be monarch and monarch's Queen (despite having been brought up for future Kingship from birth)?
Why are you unable to at least say nothing if you can't say anything nice about the poor woman, and stop romanticising about Diana as though she was some poor little girl who was cruelly driven to the brink of sanity by these unfeeling monsters. She was at best average and at worst manipulative of the media ( which might have led to her death), certainly doesn't deserve all this wringing of hands and tearing of hair and was no better or worse than Charles or Camilla.
As an contrivence I don't like the Royal family, (I'm Irish they're not mine) but if you're going to have them and simper and fawn over them like a pack of docile peasants then you have to accept that's exactly what you are and they don't care whether YOU think she should be Queen or not. All this hate for people you don't know is just surreal.

[starone]

Wonder if royalty would still be there if people had to vote for them. There are a lot more anti-royalists than are apparent. And how could you respect someone who was supposed to be ruling you and had done things which you considered wrong. Pity it was so 'in your face' that you couldn't ignore it.

[Canary42]

Why shouldn't she be queen - she's shared his bed since they were teenagers after all.