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The Ice Queen (A Day of 'Astonishing Put Downs' for Camilla Parker Bowles)
News of the World UK ^ | 4.10.05 | Clive Goodman

Posted on 04/10/2005 12:31:57 PM PDT by gopwinsin04

Queen Elizabeth II delivered some extraordinary wedding day snubs to Prince Charles and his bride Camilla Parker Bowles yesterday. Her gloomy Majesty barely cracked a smile throughout the day. She never spoke to her new daughter in law and wouldn't even look at her.

At one point, the Queen frostily turned her back on Camilla during the blessing of the couples marriage.

But the worst moments for the new Duchess of Cornwall came when it was time to take the traditional family photos on the steps of St. George's Chapel. Royal aides had expected the Queen and Prince Phillp to spend at least five minutes posing with the newlyweds.

But the queen barely managed to spare 52 seconds to stand alongside the happy couple. She did not say a word to Camilla, now the country's second highest ranking royal, but spoke to her son.

Queen: 'That all went rather well.' Charles: 'Yes.' Queen: 'We are leaving now.' Charles: 'Oh, I really want a picture of us all.'

The Queen then moved quickly to stand further away from her new daughter in law, stepping around her to stand beside Charles. It was a day of astonishing put downs for Camilla, 57, delivered by her mother in law.

One observer told us: 'If the Queen had been any quicker, the pictures would have to been done on a speed camera. She looked grumpy and frosty to the bitter end.'

There were mutterings among the female guests as the Queen broke the golden rule of weddings--upstaging the bride by wearing white. Her off white outfit was almost exactly the same color Camilla had chosen for her civil wedding.

One guest said: 'She didn't join in on any of the prayers or hymms, she looked miserable.' Then, as the congregation sang 'Love Divine,' she lowered her order of service and turned her back on Camilla--even Prince Phillip was forced to shoot her a look!

One family friend told us: 'It was tough on Camilla. It wouldn't have killed the Queen to say well done. Nobody expected her to throw her arms around the woman but she was very cold to her.'

Later, things appeared to have warmed as the Queen unexpectedly made a speech at the reception--but later than cracked a joke at Camilla's expense, appearing to compare her to a horse.

To laughter from the guests in the State Apartments, she told the newlyweds, 'Welcome to the winners enclosure!' Seconds earlier, she had told the crowd that she had an important annoucement to make and then declared who won the Grand National Horse Race.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: adultery; royals; royalwedding; snub; thequeen
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To: gopwinsin04

I didn't watch anything after the ceremony. They all walked out of the church, the queen got into her limo, everybody else got on buses and they took off. Nobody was taking any time to pose for family pictures.


101 posted on 04/10/2005 1:34:02 PM PDT by wimpycat (Hyperbole is the opium of the activist wacko.)
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To: TheSpottedOwl
The Queen should have stayed out of her son's love life and never forced Charles to marry Diana in the first place. He loved Camilla and would have eventually married her anyway, as he has done. Even her ex-husband showed up at the wedding. The Queen should have been as gracious.

I have surprised myself because I hate home wreckers. However, I see the Queen as the one at fault here and the cause of Diana's pain.
102 posted on 04/10/2005 1:34:03 PM PDT by Goodgirlinred ( GoodGirlInRed Four More Years!!!!!)
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To: gopwinsin04
The Priness of Wales 'Fleur de lys' crest...for shame! Diana is doing cartwheels in her grave

Where's the insult ?

103 posted on 04/10/2005 1:34:22 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Nations do not survive by setting examples for others. Nations survive by making examples of others)
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To: mewzilla

Oh wow, so you are saying that the Queen must've been have been incensed when she saw Camilla sitting on the pew at Diana's wedding wearing white...I didn't know that! So she intentionally wore WHITE to stick it to her...Queen Elizabeth has a LOOOOOOOOOOOOONGGG memory!!


104 posted on 04/10/2005 1:36:15 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: Centurion2000
Camilla has always maintained that she wants to be known as the Dutchess of Cornwall and not the Princess of Wales.

But she seems to be warming the official jewelry on the big day...

105 posted on 04/10/2005 1:36:53 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

Yes, Gearge's father as the Queen.
George as Prince Charles.
Kramer as Camilla.


106 posted on 04/10/2005 1:36:53 PM PDT by Marylander
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To: MHT
Agreed--a bird's nest. Now, for the hard part--name the bird.

It was too big to be a sparrow's nest...
I think it must've been either a robin or a starling.

107 posted on 04/10/2005 1:37:00 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: cubreporter
She is more appropriate for Charles anyway.

,,, you're right. Dianna was neurotic but knew how to work the room insofar as the media was concerned. This replacement looks like she's got stretch marks on her face but I'd say she's got brains enough to make it in the long run... certainly she's shown she's got patience.

108 posted on 04/10/2005 1:37:42 PM PDT by shaggy eel (kicking it downunder)
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To: Mears

I feel really bad for Camilla. Charles should've been allowed to marry her when they were younger but simply because she wasn't 'royal' enough, he was forbidden and then resorted to marrying Diana years later. In the mean time, here's a couple who've always been in love with each other forced to marry others just because of family status.

At last, after more than 35 years, they're finally together as husband and wife.

I think they deserve the chance to finally be happy together. And screw the queen for making her children's lives miserable (even one of her daughters was forbidden to marry the man she loved just because his family's blood wasn't blue enough).

It's obvious now the queen will never give up her throne to Charles unless it's feet first and doesn't have the decency of her own mother.

Charles will be king one day and Camille will become queen. His mother won't be around forever. Charles will just be patient and wait his turn. Goodluck Charles and Camille.


109 posted on 04/10/2005 1:38:51 PM PDT by Edward Watson
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To: gopwinsin04
Isn't the Queen still one of the richest people in the world and the only billionairess? (Mostly base on real estate holdings now a days)

Probably. And she worked so hard for all of it, the poor dear. She must have used the Carlton Sheets course.

110 posted on 04/10/2005 1:39:11 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk)
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To: wimpycat
But it is tradition for the family to pose for the unofficial/casual wedding pictures on the steps.

53 seconds is a major slap to Charles and Camilla, no matter what.

111 posted on 04/10/2005 1:39:17 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: Libertina

Well said.


112 posted on 04/10/2005 1:39:31 PM PDT by kitkat
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To: SouthernFreebird
Personally I think she looks pretty damn good for a 57 yr old woman. I'm curoius to know how your mother looked at that age.

I have to step out of lurk mode to second that!

113 posted on 04/10/2005 1:40:02 PM PDT by DCPatriot
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To: TheSpottedOwl

> Murder is never right.

Yes, but sometimes killing is.

> I like tradition, so I'm okay with royal families and monarchies.

Good for you. The world needs subservient "subject" types, along with "citizens." But try to install royalty over *me* and you'll have a problem.


114 posted on 04/10/2005 1:40:12 PM PDT by orionblamblam ("You're the poster boy for what ID would turn out if it were taught in our schools." VadeRetro)
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To: Edward Watson

Camelot is over. Good riddance.


115 posted on 04/10/2005 1:40:19 PM PDT by John Lenin (I've heard Valley Girls who speak better (on the phone, sorry))
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To: SouthernFreebird
When she opens her mouth, she does have British teeth, but that aside, this picture is evidence that Camilla is far from being the ugly one in the marriage:


116 posted on 04/10/2005 1:40:21 PM PDT by Fawnn (Canteen wOOhOO Consultant and CookingWithPam.com person - Faith makes things possible, not easy.)
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To: gopwinsin04
The Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by all accounts wasn't a very likeable person, and probably would have been a disastrous emperor if he hadn't managed to get himself assassinated in 1914...but when he fell in love with a woman he insisted on marrying her, despite the strenuous efforts of the Emperor to prevent it. Prince Charles fell in love with Camilla and should have married her to begin with, instead of bowing to expectations. I have greater respect than I used to have for Franz Ferdinand.

The polls say the Brits would rather have young Prince William succeed Queen Elizabeth, passing over Prince Charles. They love him because of his mother. There was a similar case in the Roman Empire, of a young prince who was beloved because of the affection people had had for his father. The prince finally did become emperor, and is known to history as Caligula.

117 posted on 04/10/2005 1:40:25 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

One of Sam Walton's daughters may also have a billion, I think they are the only ones.


118 posted on 04/10/2005 1:40:54 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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To: gopwinsin04

I didn't see Charles and Diana posing on any steps immediately after their wedding ceremony.

But you know what, I really don't care about any of that mess.

I was only looking at the dresses and the silly hats. The best(worst!) one was the girl wearing the wide-brimmed white hat that looked like everybody threw their used Kleenexes onto it.


119 posted on 04/10/2005 1:42:41 PM PDT by wimpycat (Hyperbole is the opium of the activist wacko.)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Correct, the public polls now say 58 percent want William as King.

Pray they never get Harry down the road, he could make a likely candidate for Caligula!

120 posted on 04/10/2005 1:43:28 PM PDT by gopwinsin04
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