REGAL ROSES: Bearing flowers, Charles and Camilla visit Hanover Square, where they left a tribute to British 9/11 victims. Photo: AFP/Getty
Posted on 11/02/2005 4:17:48 AM PST by Liz
REGAL ROSES: Bearing flowers, Charles and Camilla visit Hanover Square, where they left a tribute to British 9/11 victims. Photo: AFP/Getty
Diana would be amused. Her successor and former rival, Camilla Parker Bowles, failed spectacularly in her attempt to wow Manhattan society with her sartorial splendor last night.
Dressed in an unflattering Anthony Price navy velvet frock with a fussy oversized chiffon collar, the Duchess of Cornwall arrived at a chi-chi cocktail party looking more like an escapee from the choirboy pew of Westminister Abbey than the guest of honor.
Earlier, Camilla caused quite a stir when she chose an eye-popping raspberry suit for her visit to Ground Zero.
We predict an "off-with-their-heads" ruling to come down on the core team who were supposed to create the "Camilla Chic" glamour on this trip..... and "a secret dresser," whose identity is fast becoming a gag in fashion circles.
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Looks like the audience (guests) were throwing stuff at Charley and Cam.
If so, their aim was as bad as the pitching staff of the Texas Rangers.
Why am I wasting my time on these insignificant people?
I think she looks very nice.
"ditto"
Ooooo, what a well-thought out retort. And you were accusing me of not being able to think?
I'll let you have the last word.
Diana had coaches to tell her how to walk, talk, pose and dress. Doesn't anyone remember how Di used to dress before she came into the royal family? She was a frumpy clueless mess!
Camilla's necklace (in the picture in your post 14) looks very similar to Diana's in this picture. I certainly hope it's not the same one. That would be truly tacky.
At least Diana learned how----Fergie looked like a refugee from a workhouse from Day One til she departed Buckingham Palace.
A quick comment from Texas
Camilla is a good looking woman bedeviled by incompetent photographers. Most of the pictures were taken in hard light with no fill to soften her age.
As we say in Texas, "The best marriages come from best friends who get hitched".
My best to the couple and I hope their marriange is as good as mine. I married my best friend too. It's the only way to go.
The raspberry suit was very flattering, although one strand of pearls and rubies would have sufficed.
It puts me in mind of a paper I wrote in college (and being a complete lefty liberal at the time you can imagine my spin on it) about the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857--which had not as happy a result that Kitchener had. I'd be interested in any insights you might have on the Sepoy mutiny.
DANG already.
Let's see if I can set you straight. I'm not sure if you want me to site American Presidents who's sons served in war while they were in office, or presidents who themselves fought in war while in office (there aren't any of those but I'd be surprised if there were any British Monarchs who did so since Richard the Lionhearted), or Presidents with combat experience, or what. Well, here goes.
American Presidents in combat include George Washington (ever heard of him- he served in two wars), James Monroe, Andrew Jackson (defeated the British at New Orleans), William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor (40 years in the Army), Franklin Pierce, Abraham Lincoln served in the Black Hawk War but did not face combat, U.S Grant (two wars), Rutherford B. Hayes was wounded in the Civil War, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt became famous charging up San Juan Hill in the Spanish American War for which he was posthumously awarded the congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration; as of 2005 he is the only President to have received the award, Harry Truman was an artillery officer in WWI and saw action in the Vosges, Saint Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne campaigns, Dwight Eisenhower never saw action but did a little bit of work in WWII, JFK was nearly killed in the Pacific, LBJ won a Silver Star in the South Pacific, Richard Nixon did not see combat was served in the Pacific, Jimmy Carter was in the Navy, and George Herbert Walker Bush was a Navy pilot who was shot down and nearly killed also.
As for their offspring, Robert Todd Lincoln served on Grant's staff.
Teddy Roosevelt also had several sons in the millitary. Archie was said to be "an absolutely selfless gladiator who insisted on being the first to smell the enemy's bad breath, regardless of the risk." During World War I Kermit was lightly reprimanded while fighting with the British in the Middle East. Some victories, said Kermit's British colonel, could very well be hand without full frontal assaults into the gaping mouths of enemy guns. His brother Quentin was killed. Just three days before Quentin's death in 1918, the New York Sun congratulated him editorially for "attacking three enemy airplanes single-handed and shooting one of them down."
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr, was the only general to land with the first wave on Utah Beach. He was played by Henry Fonda in the movie "the Longest Day".
Is that enough or shall I go on?
... or about Manhattan society, either! LOL
It has been described thusly:
An evening with Diana:
Diana: Let's talk about ME, my NEEDS, and what I want YOU to do for ME.
An evening with Camilla:
Camilla: How are YOU? Let me get YOU some cheese and a glass of wine. Please tell me about YOUR speech. I would really like to hear about it.
Without wishing to speak ill of the dead, I can only say that Diana was always her own worst enemy.
It was exactly the same phenomenon ... pop culture ... the essence of symbolism over substance ...
Not in my book. Diana was pretty --no more no less-- before she went bulimic, cut her hair too short, and started wearing too much eye make-up. After that she wasn't even pretty anymore. Just a clothes horse, with emphasis on the horse.
For true beauty there has to be a certain inner graciousness that radiates to the outside. With Diana, there was no "there, there."
It has been reported that this was Camilla's late mother's necklace and is a real favorite of Camilla's for sentimental reasons.
Reports say cracks appeared in the Di-Charles marriage when her popularity surpassed his.
Crowds gathered at their public appearances began to express vocal disappointment when Charles strolled over to greet them, rather than Diana.
I agree. I am amazed by the animus toward this middle aged couple. In a nation where divorce is rampant it boggles the mind why so many are revulsed by a couple [who were always in love] finding happiness in a second marriage.
Diana has been dead for the better part of a decade. Long live Camilla. .... as if anyone should really care.
That suit looks nice on her. I see nothing wrong with it.
(I do object to the suddenly blond hair, though.)
LOL and for sure.
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