Posted on 04/08/2005 9:53:55 PM PDT by quidnunc
For a knot-tying no-one seems to care much about, a remarkably large number of people keep asking me what my view of the Charles-Camilla nuptials is. Well, I wish the happy couple well, and I suppose it's for the best that he's making an honest woman of her. I'm not sure we're ready for a King with a "partner". Few of us would hold it against the Prince that his "fairy-tale marriage" didn't work out, were it not for the fact that he, unlike his bride and the rest of us, knew it wasn't a fairy-tale on the wedding day itself, and in effect chose to perpetrate a massive fraud on us. I wrote as much in The Evening Standard on November 8th 1993, shortly after the separation, and, though the comparison to Uday or Qusay seems a bit overheated, I stand by my general conclusions on the Prince:
Say what you like about Saddam Hussein, but he talks a lot of sense. I'm referring to the Baghdad newspaper Babel which, in response to the Prince of Wales's criticism of the President, denounced His Highness as 'a notorious playboy well known in the cellars of the night and in whorehouses throughout Europe' and declared that 'we in Iraq do not pay any attention to the likes of the British Crown Prince'.The only puzzle is why we in Britain do. His speeches are little more than log-jams of cliched generalities — 'a lethal cocktail leading to a spiral of despair' was his most recent insight into urban housing — yet they're reported with a reverence even Saddam might find embarrassing.
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THE WEDDING OF THE WEEKEND
For a knot-tying no-one seems to care much about, a remarkably large number of people keep asking me what my view of the Charles-Camilla nuptials is. Well, I wish the happy couple well, and I suppose it's for the best that he's making an honest woman of her. I'm not sure we're ready for a King with a "partner". Few of us would hold it against the Prince that his "fairy-tale marriage" didn't work out, were it not for the fact that he, unlike his bride and the rest of us, knew it wasn't a fairy-tale on the wedding day itself, and in effect chose to perpetrate a massive fraud on us. I wrote as much in The Evening Standard on November 8th 1993, shortly after the separation, and, though the comparison to Uday or Qusay seems a bit overheated, I stand by my general conclusions on the Prince:
SAY what you like about Saddam Hussein, but he talks a lot of sense. I'm referring to the Baghdad newspaper Babel which, in response to the Prince of Wales's criticism of the President, denounced His Highness as 'a notorious playboy well known in the cellars of the night and in whorehouses throughout Europe' and declared that 'we in Iraq do not pay any attention to the likes of the British Crown Prince'.
The only puzzle is why we in Britain do. His speeches are little more than log-jams of cliched generalities - 'a lethal cocktail leading to a spiral of despair' was his most recent insight into urban housing - yet they're reported with a reverence even Saddam might find embarrassing.
As for the 'notorious playboy' bit, well, for once this is a matter of public interest. The Prime Minister certainly thought so, judging from the rather ostentatious meal he made of his Commons statement on the Royal separation.
What surprises me is that he hasn't announced an inquiry into events surrounding the Royal Wedding. If the transport minister, Steven Norris, wants to make more stops than the Central Line on his way home, that's his affairs - and it doesn't necessarily reflect on his professional integrity (he obviously believes in increased choice and contracting out).
But the Prince's wedding was a public event and, if it's true, as many sources have claimed, that he was unfaithful to his bride on the very eve of his marriage, then he was effectively perpetrating a massive con on his future subjects and demonstrating a cynical contempt for us. Maybe the Queen's son and Saddam's heir - who runs the Babel paper in between his extensive gambling, womanising and chairing of the Iraqi Olympic Committee - have more in common than the Prince realises.
"It's a nice day for a white wedding..."
Billy Idol
Next line in that song...
"It's a nice day to start again."
Very appropriate.
TLC is having some documentary on Prince Charles and Camilla. They are running clips of Princess Diana saying that is was quite uncomfortable to have three people in a marriage. Quite appropriate that she haunt this marriage...
Charles was raised by a nanny and was very close to his grandmother, it's just natural that Camilla would be the love of his life. A man instinctively marries a woman who is the image of his mother.
Not to mention that both Charlie and Camilla have faces like a horse...
To be honest, Camilla has always been the love of his life.
But, while he was away, she married.
He had to marry a virgin.
So, he chose the lovely Diana, who was all of 19 years old,
when they became engaged.
It's funny that, other than the above, the one thing I remember about this "affair" is the word...
TAMPON!
I sincerely hope I didn't offend anyone. ;o)
And of course, Charles knew Diana who knew Kevin Bacon. That makes a mere 'five degrees of Kevin Bacon' ;-)
Yes? What does Diana have to say about this wedding? We're eager to know!
They deserve each other.
Thanks for the de-quiding.
My pleasure.
Remembering that the Church, which more than any other force, created monpgamous marriage, had much more success nudging commoners to accept the institution than the nobility, paradoxically because commoners had much less property to exchange.
Personally I find the comments about the appearance of Camilla distasteful, in the same way that comments about GWB looking like a chimp are equally distasteful. I for one think Charles is a splendid fellow. I he is marrying the woman he loves, then good for him.
"He stuck in my mind - at the formal dinner a general wearing spurs does that."
Indeed, it would. ;o)
Camilla's husband is the one innocent in this whole sordid affair.
He has behaved as an officer and gentleman should.
I do hope he's been able to get past all of this, and is happy now.
I was hoping the newlyweds would have a private honeymoon.
I see that is not the case.
"And of course, Charles knew Diana who knew Kevin Bacon. That makes a mere 'five degrees of Kevin Bacon' ;-)"
But, how creative you are to get all the way to five degrees. ;o)
"Personally I find the comments about the appearance of Camilla distasteful"
I agree.
I thought she looked lovely.
In fact, I thought she looked years younger than she is.
She was, truly, the blushing bride.
It's the hats that I don't get. ;o)
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