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Duchess of Cornwall's diamond necklace outshines Queen (Taudry Cammy Strikes Again!) (CAPTION-ABLE!)
World News dot COM dot AU ^ | 24 NOV 2007 | Rebecca English

Posted on 11/24/2007 6:15:30 AM PST by bannie

Its five strands of diamonds covered her decolletage and made the Queen's jewels look quite modest as they attended the Queen's banquet for the Commonwealth Heads of Government in Kampala, Uganda, on Friday.

But Camilla didn't deliberately set out to overshadow her mother-in-law - the Queen gave her permission to borrow it from the royal collection.

Camilla's favourite couturier, Anna Valentine, designed her a simple duck-egg blue dress and matching stole to set off the necklace, estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars.

The Duchess added the Queen Mother's Boucheron tiara, a set of diamond earrings and the Queen Elizabeth II Family Order, given to female members of the royal family.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: camilla; diamonds; england; gauche; modesty; royals; taudry
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To: razbinn
I'm tired of Camilla bashing.

Charles was always in love with her and Diana knew it! She was a fool to marry him.

OTOH, Diana may have been physically beautiful, but she was obscessed with herself and puked after every meal so she could stay trim. She hated riding or even being around horses.

IMHO, Charles and Camilla are one of the greatest love affairs of our time. Diana's boys seem to get on very well with her.

sw

121 posted on 11/24/2007 9:07:05 AM PST by spectre (spectre's wife (It's Illegal immigration, Stupid)
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To: pillut48
You don't understand Charles "ditching Di?".?

I guess if you found out one of your Royal sons wasn't fathered by YOU, you'd just forgive and forget? Rubbish!

sw

122 posted on 11/24/2007 9:09:27 AM PST by spectre (spectre's wife (It's Illegal immigration, Stupid)
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To: Guenevere

I think you are wrong. I would have not made any difference if there had been no Camilla, Di was unstable and would have never stayed for the long run, she craved too much attention from men.


123 posted on 11/24/2007 9:12:50 AM PST by lolhelp
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To: bannie
The Queen Mother in the same Crown.

Queen out-dazzled by Camilla the diamond duchess in Commonwealth visit

The necklace was also owned by the Queen Mother, who wore it with the same tiara as Camilla, to a state banquet with her daughter in November 1950.

124 posted on 11/24/2007 9:14:26 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead)
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To: spectre

NOT!
Remember “King” Edward and that American hussie Mrs Simpson?
At least Eddie had the guts to turn down the “Crown” for his “beauty” of a wife!

Aloha kakou


125 posted on 11/24/2007 9:16:58 AM PST by BigIsleGal (Love to Those on Rainbow Bridge and Luck to Us Who Aren't)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

It is remarks like that that make freepers look like foolish idiots.


126 posted on 11/24/2007 9:17:47 AM PST by lolhelp
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To: bannie

That head belongs beneath an axe on the scaffold of the Tower of London. There is something disgusting about such a grotesque display of wealth, particularly when it is unearned and merely stolen from the people. I despise “royalty”, whether British or Saudi. They are two sides of the same coin. Wealth acquired by theft, graft, mass-murder and tyranny. It is antithetical to the laws of God and Man. It is repulsive.


127 posted on 11/24/2007 9:24:01 AM PST by montag813
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To: SandyInSeattle
Sometimes the bigger the diamond the more “dime store” it looks.

I certainly agree with that!

This was a better "match". Pics of Camilla and the Queen Mother in the same crown.

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128 posted on 11/24/2007 9:31:38 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead)
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To: lolhelp
It is remarks like that that make freepers look like foolish idiots.


129 posted on 11/24/2007 9:43:12 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Jet noise. The Sound of Freedom. - Go Air Force!)
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To: bannie
For the sake of comparison, A site that has pics of the Queen Mother wearing the Greville necklace and Boucheron tiara.

QUEEN MOTHERS JUWEL CASKET

130 posted on 11/24/2007 9:45:58 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead)
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To: DJ MacWoW
WOW! Good catch!

I tried to post the picture, but it's sectional!

When I saw that necklace, I woundered what could ever make it look good. The picture of "the Queen Mother" in it helps its appearance, considerably.

131 posted on 11/24/2007 9:53:52 AM PST by bannie
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To: nuconvert
Oh, it's on the wall!

I thought at first that it was part of her headgear.

<}B^)

132 posted on 11/24/2007 9:55:37 AM PST by Erasmus (My simplifying explanation had the disconcerting side effect of making the subject incomprehensible.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
OMG! She's lost her mittens!

Somehow that strikes me as the perfect punchline.

Now, we just have to think of the joke!

133 posted on 11/24/2007 9:57:22 AM PST by Erasmus (My simplifying explanation had the disconcerting side effect of making the subject incomprehensible.)
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To: DJ MacWoW
Nope. Camilla and Charles dated when they were younger. She waited for a proposal but Charles wouldn't settle down. Camilla then married elsewhere.

She continued to see Charles after her marriage - and her husband knew but turned a blind eye - the English 'high brow' are wont to do that - stiff upper lip, you know..

134 posted on 11/24/2007 9:59:50 AM PST by maine-iac7 (",,,but you can't fool all of the people all the time" LINCOLN)
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To: pillut48

Ditto.....
Whatever Di’s early faults, like most, she outgrew them....
(yes, you do out grow eating disorders and BLPD’s either die or grow up.....she grew up).

She was the girl we all wished we could be, other than the ‘married to Charles’ part.


135 posted on 11/24/2007 10:02:17 AM PST by najida ("Will you dance at my birthday party?")
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To: maine-iac7
...WHILE Cammie’s then-husband turned his blind eye, he was the butt of cuckold jokes.
136 posted on 11/24/2007 10:04:58 AM PST by bannie
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To: bannie

The necklace can be 3 or 5 strand. Although the Queen Mother wears it well, I still think it rather gaudy. :) The neckline of the dress it’s worn with also has a bearing on how it looks. I think Camilla’s designer needs to be fired too.


137 posted on 11/24/2007 10:05:00 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (Jesus loves you, Allah wants you dead)
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To: DJ MacWoW

I think she’s wearin’ a toga.


138 posted on 11/24/2007 10:06:07 AM PST by bannie
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To: WhyisaTexasgirlinPA

Actually no, I was just saying not to deify Diana, she was slutting around as well. So I meant neither was anyone to be proud of, just Diana was prettier.


139 posted on 11/24/2007 10:08:15 AM PST by Shimmer (Love is friendship that has caught fire)
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To: 3AngelaD
I take it all the men commenting here look like Antonio Banderas dressed by Giorgio Armani.

Hell, I would never look that geh!

140 posted on 11/24/2007 10:09:14 AM PST by Erasmus (My simplifying explanation had the disconcerting side effect of making the subject incomprehensible.)
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