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Because Diana was a mentally deranged tramp who was not entitled to be HRH. She was a bottomless pit of emotional neediness and would have never *ever* been happy. Pity for Chuck is if he'd waited just a little longer he'd have been a widower! Anyway... Camilla was always his great love and it's about bloody time they got hitched. She didn't wait for him and married someone else as I understand it. Now, with the Princes grown, and Harry making a name for himself with the Nazi joke costume, they can get hitched without too much insanity. She'll just be Princess Consort just like Liz 2's hubby Philip is Prince Consort, *NOT* King. I doubt Harry's actually Chuck's son. It's all very sad, really.

Diana's offspring will probably be the penaltimate ruination of the British Monarchy. That was her dream anyway.

Unbelievable! You're excusing the Prince by saying it's ok he had an affair with Camilla because he always loved her? For the love of Pete! Charles stood up in a church and sinned against God by taking a vow he knew he would break- the very next day! Diana may have been innocent and naive, but she more than liked believed the vows she took. Charles is by far the worst here because he knowingly stood before the Church (one he's supposed to be the protector of) and lied.

She was a bottomless pit of emotional neediness and would have never *ever* been happy.

Live a few years yourself in a place that regards human emotion as so much mildew on the royal porcelain, and then tell us that, in just that judgmental tone.

Here's the way I see it: Diana was a pathetic figure with some natural PR gifts who got in way over her head and was wrecked by the experience. Charles couldn't help but grow up emotionally stunted in that environment and didn't have the common sense to try to pretend his marriage to Diana meant something to him.

The whole affair was a personal tragedy. We should all be glad we don't have to grow up and live in the world of the Windsors and that no one gives a damn what we do every minute of the day. I don't see how we can begin to judge these people by a normal moral code when they don't inhabit anything like a normal world. It's sad, sad, sad.

The Windsors should follow the continental European model of enjoying their spectacular wealth in private with their peers while withdrawing from 90% of the publicity they do and putting forth a patriotically modest front. This cross between Fantasyland and Hollywood they've created is death to everyone who comes close to it.

(To our UK friends reading this message board: no, it's not my business as an American to tell you what to do with your institutions. All I'm saying is that the current state of the royal family is transparently hazardous to anyone unlucky enough to be born into it, and something ought to change if we don't want every HRH to go to his grave with at least one gruesome divorce broadcast to the whole world.)