coquina Posted February 11, 2005 Posted February 11, 2005 What are your thoughts - I suppose the Brits among us have more opinion that the rest, since they do have a "dog in this fight" (no pun intended). You can comment on Royalty in general if you choose to do so.
Sayonara Posted February 11, 2005 Posted February 11, 2005 I don't care; not about their relationship, and not about any implications the tabloids can make up. "Royal man in normal human responses shocker" is a complete non-story. (...does that count as an opinion?)
Phi for All Posted February 11, 2005 Posted February 11, 2005 Jay Leno said last night on The Tonight Show that it was actually Camilla who suggested this but when she did, Charles was all ears.
MulderMan Posted February 11, 2005 Posted February 11, 2005 if they get married i dont think he should become king. it depends really who you would class to have broken up the marriage between him and diana.
Coral Rhedd Posted February 12, 2005 Posted February 12, 2005 I am not British but I am "absolutely delighted." Now they can stop sneaking around. Slate has an amusing take on this: http://slate.msn.com/id/2113387/
Newtonian Posted February 12, 2005 Posted February 12, 2005 Im not,im English. Charles marrying the women ,who caused the breakdown of his marriage to Diana.Is wholly inapropriate.But as they are no laws broken who cares,however i feel in the long term this will be the beginning of the end for our monarchy.The only possible way of rescuing the situation is for William to be our next king. If Diana were still alive,it would still be inapropriate. Whats even a harder smack in the face,is Camila has recieved the Queen mothers beloved ring for an engagement ring. excuse me, GLAAuuRGel , that was me vomitting on my keyboard!
Phi for All Posted February 12, 2005 Posted February 12, 2005 The only possible way of rescuing the situation is for William to be our next king.Do you think this will happen? That could be very interesting.excuse me, GLAAuuRGel , that was me vomitting on my keyboard!Now wait a minute, wasn't GLAAuuRGel the elven prince from that Tolkien story? The English monarchy is soooo confusing!
Newtonian Posted February 12, 2005 Posted February 12, 2005 To be serious Phi,i think it will happen.The queen has a few years left yet.Although Charles desperately wants to be king,I think he has blown it with the miss ugly saga. He used to be my favourite royal till the divorce.Im all for the monarchy yet i feel when we lose our Queen it could be over.Thats why i hope William is king,I dont know whether fellow subjects agree with me but i think William will be a great king.
Phi for All Posted February 12, 2005 Posted February 12, 2005 I know the whole Charles/Diana thing left a vacuum in the hearts of many concerning the royals. I agree with you about William, he may be the one to rekindle interest in the monarchy.
MulderMan Posted February 12, 2005 Posted February 12, 2005 do you think that will and harry are really happy about the remarrying or are just saying that? i dont know why the archbishop said yes to the marriage in the first place.
atinymonkey Posted February 12, 2005 Posted February 12, 2005 Charles, the Prince of Wales, is the proxy head of the Church of England. I can't see the Archbishop of Canterbury having any say in the matter.
Newtonian Posted February 12, 2005 Posted February 12, 2005 do you think that will and harry are really happy about the remarrying or are just saying that? i dont know why the archbishop said yes to the marriage in the first place. I think not,its a personal matter who knows what they actually think. I know i would thoroughly hate the bitch.She has no morals Camila was Charles first love,IMO they were both single and should of married.The fact is they didnt,she married another and so did he.She ruined her own marriage and then ruined the marriage of Charles and Diana.Using the oldest of decietfull rituals,befriending Diana. Logically i cannot see William and Harry liking her.I think if they seem to, it may be out of love for their father.
5614 Posted February 12, 2005 Posted February 12, 2005 i totaly agree with sayo... im british and i couldnt care less.
us.2u Posted February 12, 2005 Posted February 12, 2005 I used to like Charles & Diana & thought what a great example to us all until the ugliness set in IMHO now I don't really care what they do I just hope the lads (Charle's sons) are o.k. with idea of it... & that they don't feel offended but after this; Charles as King......Nah
Newtonian Posted February 13, 2005 Posted February 13, 2005 Its in todays papers that prince Harry is not happy.Apperently when told he threw a major fit,with door slamming etc.Understandable and not unique,but he blames Camila for the breaking his mothers heart..
Coral Rhedd Posted February 13, 2005 Posted February 13, 2005 Poor Diana. What was done to her was truly dreadful. The marriage was contracted with bad faith on Charles' part. Think of it, an innocent 19 year old thinks she is going to become a fairy tale princess and live happily ever after and instead she gets a husband who is fixated on a hag. Someone should have told her the Royals were conducting business and that the dress, the carriage, and the cathedral were windowdressing. Perhaps Harry has a soul . . .
Newtonian Posted February 14, 2005 Posted February 14, 2005 Yes,she had niavely assumed that marriage and fidelity go together.I dont believe Charles didnt love Diana,but his petulent excuse was why should he be the only prince of wales,not to take a mistress.
JohnB Posted February 14, 2005 Posted February 14, 2005 To be totally honest, I don't think that Charles and Diana ever had a chance. Do any of you think that your marraige would survive the media circus they were subjected to? I don't know how it is in Britain, but the women's mags are still running Di stories down here. It's disgusting. Coral, has it ever occurred to you that Charles might be just as much trapped by the system as Di was?
YT2095 Posted February 14, 2005 Posted February 14, 2005 I couldn`t care less, they`ve done nothing to or for me, so why should I? my wife on the other hand, Hates her. and so while everyone`s at the wedding throwing rice and confetti, She`d like to be there throwing gravel and abuse
ed84c Posted February 14, 2005 Posted February 14, 2005 Jay Leno said last night on The Tonight Show[/i'] that it was actually Camilla who suggested this but when she did, Charles was all ears. cruel.
Coral Rhedd Posted February 14, 2005 Posted February 14, 2005 To be totally honest' date=' I don't think that Charles and Diana ever had a chance. Do any of you think that your marraige would survive the media circus they were subjected to? I don't know how it is in Britain, but the women's mags are still running Di stories down here. It's disgusting. Coral, has it ever occurred to you that Charles might be just as much trapped by the system as Di was?[/quote'] I've no doubt he was even more trapped by the system before he married her than she was. After all, she could have said no. Many nineteen year olds would not have wanted him at all, prince or not. Let's face it, he is all ears. But once she, for some reason, was able to find him attractive ( ), then she was trapped not by the system but by the naive fantasies that girls have and the culture nurtures. The reason I blame Charles more (and as I am writing this I do wonder who cares ??? but we do seem to . . . ) is because he had thirteen years on her. He knew the system, he knew the strength of his attachment to Camilla, and he knew that nineteen year olds don't understand that the prince must have a mistress. To marry her without fully enlightening her was to operate in bad faith. One could argue easily that all nineteen year olds are naive and thus it is no crime. But I admit to being stuffy sometimes. I don't like the ideas of old guys taking advantage of young women. I used to chase them away from my daughter before she moved away and gave me no chance to busy body about her life.
coquina Posted February 14, 2005 Author Posted February 14, 2005 She said that the alliances to produce future kings were more like business deals than love affairs. It was understood that once the job of "Royal Brood Mare" had been fulfilled, both parties often took lovers but it was kept discrete. I doubt seriously that Charles told Diana about Camilla - if he did, she probably had the idea that she could win him over and all would live happily ever after. At any rate - in this day of telephoto lenses and practically instantanious world wide broadcasting, all it took was something to come up on an otherwise slow news day to start the ball rolling. I do think Diana took revenge on Charles by leaking stories to the press, but it hurt her as much or more as it did him. Mom said the royals were inbred too much anyway, and that they should just be allowed to marry for love and be done with it.
YT2095 Posted February 14, 2005 Posted February 14, 2005 I guess it didn`t help when a telephone recording of Charles to camilla stating "that he`de like to be her Tampax" helped much either, that was While he was still married!
coquina Posted February 14, 2005 Author Posted February 14, 2005 With those ears, you wouldn't need a string. OMG! Did I say that??? He certainly can turn a romantic phrase, can he not???
Newtonian Posted February 14, 2005 Posted February 14, 2005 Interesting post YT GLAARUGL.. That was me vomitting on my keyboard.
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