Prince Charles to wed Camilla Parker Bowles

Daily Telegraph news alert ^

[tjwmason]

No story yet on their web-page, but a text-message news-alert from the Telegraph states that H.R.H. the Prince of Wales is to marry Camilla Parker Bowles.

See The Telegraph web-site for updates http://www.telegraph.co.uk

[Imaverygooddriver]

"She looks like a man , man."

[tjwmason]

See also http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/4252795.stm

Prince Charles to marry Camilla

Prince Charles is set to marry Camilla Parker-Bowles, Clarence House has announced.

No date has been released at this stage, but reports have suggested 6 April is one possible date.

[PLMerite]

As a friend of mine refers to Camilla: "Ugly as a sack of spanners."

[BigSkyFreeper]

CNN has been in CNN International mode since the story broke.

[leadpenny]

Great! A third thread.

[tjwmason]

Great! A third thread.

Actually the second thread posted, and the first was posted whilst I was posting this one.

[leadpenny]

whilst

Finally, I've found someone who takes longer to post a thread than it takes me to post one. I really do want to see what our friends across the pond have to say. Not a problem.

[tjwmason]

I really do want to see what our friends across the pond have to say.

I think that most of us aren't really bothered either way, as long as Mrs. Parker Bowles does not become Queen.

[leadpenny]

And another thing, if we can have endless threads about an Oklahoma judge mechanically choking his monkey whilst on the bench, we certainly can have a few threads about two royal geezers tying the knot.

~ a geezer

[leadpenny]

Ok, a really dumb question: If Charles becomes King, doesn't she become something?

[Cronos]

she looks like a horse. Chucky probably mistook her for one of the horses he rides while playing polo

[tjwmason]

Ok, a really dumb question: If Charles becomes King, doesn't she become something?

The law of title is very simple in this regard. A woman who marries a man of higher rank automatically aquires the female form of his title. Therefore if nothing else changes on their marriage she will become Princess of Wales, Duchess of Cornwall &c.&c.; then on his accession to the throne she would become Queen.

The problem is that most people are not terribly happy about this (I'm not overly keen, but neither am I terribly bothered myself), and therefore I think it likely that she will be given an alternate title - which can be done by specific intervention of the Queen.

[leadpenny]

I see. Could Queen Elizabeth take her son out of the line of succession and make William the heir?

[tjwmason]

Could Queen Elizabeth take her son out of the line of succession and make William the heir?

That's a more difficult one. Our constitution is unwritten, and in the past when such cases arose they tended to be sorted out on the battle-field :-)

It is pretty much inconceivable that Her Majesty would do so without the consent of both H.R.H. Prince Charles, and H.R.H. Prince William; additionally the Prime Minister (and probably those of the various Commonwealth countries which share the monarchy). In that case a bill wouldalmost certaily pass through Parliament (I suspect that it would be unopposed, except by a few arch-leftists who take any excuse to attack the monarchy), which would (like all bills) require Royal Assent, and then become law.

[leadpenny]

Don't know if you get MSNBC there (probably not, about six people watch it here, unfortunately) but Charles Sabine from London was just on with Don Imus (the best morning program - EVER!). They were discussing this issue and after the exchange ended, Imus' producer, Bernard McQuirk, asked Imus if he wasn't related to Camilla. There is a slight resemblance.

[Arpege92]

I really don't understand Charle's attraction to this woman....not that he's a prize himself. But after marrying such a beautiful woman like Diana, you'd think he would have good taste.

[GraceCoolidge]

I really don't understand Charle's attraction to this woman....not that he's a prize himself. But after marrying such a beautiful woman like Diana, you'd think he would have good taste.

Now c'mon... common interests, companionship, friendship, those do have some role in a relationship, don't you think? I wouldn't judge a man's taste by how beautiful a woman he marries... sometimes just the opposite. I don't think Diana's beauty was much consolation for the misery that their marriage brought to both of them, do you?

[Dog]

I'll be damned ....he is finally doing it.

[PilloryHillary]

Did you search? There are about 3 threads on this already.