Posted on 05/07/2023 2:14:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Now that she has been crowned alongside her husband, King Charles III’s wife is officially known as Queen Camilla.
While it sounds more official than “queen consort,” the changing of titles does not signify any practical difference in the role of the 75-year-old royal.
Queen consorts do not formally share the sovereign’s powers, and dropping the “consort” part of the title does not change that. Nonetheless, the change marks a milestone in Camilla’s decadeslong road to rehabilitating her image — from someone once reviled as the other woman in Charles’ first marriage to Princess Diana, to a senior royal member largely accepted by the British public.
The question of what title Camilla would hold when Charles became king has long been a subject of contention, due to sensitivity about her status as Charles’ second wife.
Camilla and her first husband, Andrew Parker-Bowles, divorced in 1995, shortly after Charles gave an explosive television interview admitting his relationship with Camilla. Charles and Diana divorced the following year. In 1997, there was a global outpouring of grief when Diana died in a car crash. Camilla and Charles waited until 2005 to marry in a low-key private civil ceremony.
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See, now youre thinking.
This or that? Isnt that always how they phrase these things? They tell you that there are only two answers to corral you away from other possibilities.
Royal side chick is good but too direct and factual, kinda flyover American. Its gotta have some pomp and floofiness to be British.
Im leaning toward “The Imperial Boinkity McSchwing”.
I still say she looks like a man in drag.
This is good to know. I’m sick of worrying about getting her title wrong.
While hardly admirable, their situation was very, very unique. And let's not forget his part of the deal. Or Dianna's, knowing where his heart was.
The thing about royalty, is, it doesn’t have to appear to make any sense.
Well, right, yes, because that is exactly what happened.
> I still say she looks like a man in drag. <
Let’s keep Michelle Obama out of this.
Classless comment that could be said of any President’s wife by those with their minds in the gutter.
Ha! Local news blond reporterette today called her Queen Corset.
We’ll have to agree to disagree.
“Keep your pants down and your legs open and you TOO can become Queen of England”.
And yet Hillary could not close the deal.
Maybe a few facts would leaven your TDS.
Ivana and Trump divorced in 1991, after months of headlines about Trump’s affair with Maples. BTW the Trumps were living separate lives
Maples and Trump were married in 1993, soon after the birth of their daughter, Tiffany. In 1997, the pair announced plans to divorce.
Trump wasn’t single for long. In 1998, he met model Melania Knauss. The pair married in January 2005.
Well, actually, "consort" is just as comical here in US, where we define that as roughly the same as "collude" or "to be in cahoots with."
I’d say Veep Kamala would outrank Queen Camilla...
Why the hell should we care?
I am sorry. My comment was unfair. I did not realize you were talking about Camilla. I retract the suggestion about TDS. The comments before & after yours got me on the wrong track.
I wonder how long it will take before Diana is recognized to be the whack-job that Teh Spare duplicated by marrying Meghan. Charles only married HER instead of Camilla in the first place because Diana had the "right" progenitors. Sadly she also brought along a crazy gene to pollute the royal line.
Queen consort == Drag queen...
I am in the USA and my family came here before the revolution. I am not interested in being a ‘SUBJECT’ or having a king.
Please stop posting British propaganda and thank you.
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