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Globe Magazine : Duchess Kate Breaks Down & Collapses 12/29/2011
Globe Magazine ^ | 12/29/2011

Posted on 01/03/2012 10:40:47 AM PST by SandRat

According to the latest issue of Globe magazine, Duchess of Cambridge, has broken down and/or collapsed! Let’s hope the rumors aren’t true!

The magazine reports that Kate was left in tears after her step-mother-in-law, the Duchess of Cornwallcruelly insulted her. What did she say?!?

DETAILS! Reportedly, Camilla was teasing the Duchess about her husband, Prince William's faithfulness. Ugh, can you believe that? Pot meet kettle, anyone?


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KEYWORDS: camilla; duchess; insult; kate; unitedkingdom
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To: SandRat
Preggers
21 posted on 01/03/2012 11:28:14 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: Verginius Rufus
Does the queen have the right, under the British constitution, to pass the throne to anyone other than the first person in the line of succession?

See post #20.
22 posted on 01/03/2012 11:31:44 AM PST by Cheburashka (If life hands you lemons, government regulations will prevent you from making lemonade.)
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To: SandRat

Camilla appears to be a real (fill in your favorite descriptor here).


23 posted on 01/03/2012 11:34:24 AM PST by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: SandRat

We need to examine the evidence! There is no evidence posted on this thread.


24 posted on 01/03/2012 12:02:07 PM PST by frithguild (Restricting access to capital - Liberalism: The sharpest tool of big business.)
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To: katana

I did hear once that an Irishman will never bite off more than he can chew. Unless its an Englishman’s leg.


25 posted on 01/03/2012 12:02:15 PM PST by NavyCanDo
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26 posted on 01/03/2012 12:08:58 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: Verginius Rufus
I think the last time anyone tried to monkey with the order of succession, other than the Glorious Revolution which meant ousting a reigning king and excluding his new-born son from the succession, was the failed attempt to put Lady Jane Grey on the throne when Edward VI died in 1553.

Although there was that whole bit with the Establishment forcing the King to abdicate in 1936 rather than give up his bimbo.

Which Winston Churchill fought bitterly, BTW.

27 posted on 01/03/2012 12:29:27 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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28 posted on 01/03/2012 12:31:02 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: SandRat

Stupid and certainly untrue.


29 posted on 01/03/2012 1:23:51 PM PST by ottbmare (off-the-track Thoroughbred mare)
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To: SandRat

At some point in the not-to-distant future the Saracens in Britain will drag the entire Royal Family into Picadilly Square and behead them.


30 posted on 01/03/2012 1:59:10 PM PST by jmacusa
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“Drink! Feck! Gurls!!


31 posted on 01/03/2012 2:00:22 PM PST by jmacusa
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To: SandRat; donozark; Garvin
A few comments from somebody who knows quite a few of the Royal family quite well.

Is it possible that the Duchess of Cornwall might have said something to the Duchess of Cambridge that upset her? Yes, it is. The Royal family is a family and the same tensions and conflicts that can pop up in any family can happen in the Royal family. But relationships between the two of them are generally good, and they do like each other, so I would find it difficult to believe anything truly significant has happened here.

The Queen does not have the power to decide who succeeds her. That decisions is in the hands of Parliament. At the moment, if the Queen should die or abdicate, Charles, the Prince of Wales will become King and Camilla, Duchess of Cambridge, will become Queen Consort as a matter of law (although she may continue to use the style Duchess of Cambridge, just as she currently does even though she is legally the Princess of Wales). Even if Charles immediately abdicated in favour of his son which some people think might happen (I don't at this stage - if Charles doesn't come to the throne until he's 80, maybe), he would still be King until the instrument of abdication took effect and Camilla would still legally be Queen.

Frankly, I do not believe Camilla has any great desire to be Queen. She will do her duty when her husband becomes King, but it's not something that is important to her.

Further comments - in terms of Garvin's that neither Camilla nor Kate will ever be Queen because they are not in the bloodline, there are four different types of Queens. The Queen Regnant (which is what Elizabeth II is, what Victoria was, and what Elizabeth I was, among others) rules in their own right and they must be the Heir by blood to take on that role. But the wife of a King is also a Queen - a Queen Consort. Queen Elizabeth, the wife of King George VI (later the Queen Mother) and Queen Mary, the wife of King George V, are the two most recent examples of these. The third type of Queen is a Dowager Queen. This is a Queen Consort whose King predeceases her. So both Queen Mary (wife of George V) and Queen Elizabeth (wife of George VI) became Dowager Queens on the death of their husbands. The fourth type of Queen is Queen Mother, which refers to a Queen who is the mother of the current Monarch. George VI's wife, Queen Elizabeth used this title from the death of George VI in 1952 until her own death in 2002. (Queen Mary was technically the Queen Mother from 1936 till 1952 when her son died, but she chose not to use that style, instead continuing to be Queen Mary - Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, naturally needed a way to distinguish herself from her daughter of the same name and so did use the title).

As for the body found at Sandringham, yes it was found on the Royal Estate. But the royal estate is 20,000 acres in size, part of which is land open to the public with hundreds of people travelling through it most days and with people actually living on it in normal English villages. There's no reason to think there's any link with the Royal Family. It may just be it was seen by somebody as a good place to try and dump a body.

32 posted on 01/03/2012 3:22:03 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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