First, William isn’t her heir. He’s her son’s heir.
Second, she’s hardly a dictator. If anyone could have instilled the duty value into her own offspring, she would’ve been the one. There’s no more inescapable example of devotion to duty, honor, country than her life and reign. But her children did not absorb that when it came to their personal lives. They did do so when it came to serving in Britain’s military.
Charles put Camilla first. Married a very young girl who was deeply in love with him, while remaining in love with Camilla, and Diana was emotionally fragile and went nuts over it.
Andrew married Fergie, of all people, and was himself a playboy type.
Edward apparently has done the most expected thing, marrying and living quietly as far as what we hear, although many thought that wouldn’t happen because to them he seemed the “gay” type. But Edward is irrelevant.
Ann, whose personal life was messed up, even more irrelevant.
If you think the queen had dictator like clout, because as head of the royals she could’ve controlled their decisions and behaviors by threatening to cut off their allowances or exile them from the family, you don’t understand it doesn’t work that way. Once you’ve gone public with something like that, the entire royal mystique is ruined and people say to **** with the lot of you.
As for the church of England, she’s the head of it about like she’s the head of the government...oh wait, she’s really not.
She’s the SYMBOLIC head of it.
There was a thread recently how the queen is totally absent from the gay rights debate. She has never once recognized that there are such people whose status is based on their sexual orientation. And they predict she never will. That speaks for how she really feels, because she speaks of all sorts of other groups of her subjects all the time.
What amazes people about her is that no matter the chaos or conditions around her, family or society, she “carries on”.
And that’s how she has preserved the monarchy.
Which is her real duty, as she saw it, and did it.
George III did a lot of that, with his siblings and his children, and it didn't turn out any better than just letting the chips fall, as the Mountbatten-Windsors have done. Queen Victoria became Queen because there wasn't a legitimate male heir in the line.
I have a soft spot for Camilla - she's behaved with great dignity since marrying Charles, and Michael Yon, the "Milblogger," said she is exemplary in her personal support of the troops.
Your children and grandchildren are your heirs - you are wrong right off the bat.
It goes without saying her kids are not suitable heirs. I mentioned William only to make the point that he is not suitable, either.
If you are a Christian, you have a duty to publicly decry evil, especially evil propragated in the name of God, such as giving official public approval and blessing to homosexual acts - and the homosexual acts of church leaders.