Queen Elizabeth announces she wants Camilla to be named Queen Consort when Charles becomes king

CBS News ^ | 02/05/2022 | Caroline Linton

[SeekAndFind]

Queen Elizabeth II's jubilee message includes a request that her daughter-in-law, Camilla, be named Queen Consort when Prince Charles ascends to the throne.

"And when, in the fullness of time, my son Charles becomes King, I know you will give him and his wife Camilla the same support that you have given me; and it is my sincere wish that, when that time comes, Camilla will be known as Queen Consort as she continues her own loyal service," the queen said in a message released Saturday night, hours before she marks 70 years on the British throne.

A spokesman for Charles and Camilla said the Prince of Wales will be issuing a statement of congratulation to the Queen on Sunday, Accession Day. "He and the Duchess of Cornwall are touched and honored by Her Majesty's words," a spokesman said.

The 1,000-year tradition dictates that the king's wife becomes a queen as a Queen Consort, which has no constitutional authority, according to BBC News. But when Prince Charles and Camilla married in 2005, Clarence House said Camilla's title would be "Princess Consort" when Charles becomes king.

It was believed the move was made out of respect for Charles' first wife, Diana. In a historic move, Charles and Diana were allowed to divorce in 1992, and then she died in a car accident in August 1997.

Camilla, who is also divorced from her first husband, was given the title Duchess of Cornwall when she and Charles married, since Diana had been styled as Diana, Princess of Wales.

Charles and Camilla, who first dated in the 1970s before they were married, had carried on a long affair before he and Diana divorced, and Camilla was blamed by the British public for their divorce.

[Sacajaweau]

Agree...BUT...IIRC it was a big deal that Diana had to be a virgin.

[Sacajaweau]

It was a big deal at the time. Diana had to be a virgin.

[DJ MacWoW]

The prince was born during the Greco-Turkish War and his very first years of childhood were not the calmest ones. His uncle Constantine I, the King of Greece at that time, was forced to abdicate when the war was over in 1922. Constantine I and Philip’s father were arrested, while Princess Alice and her entire family had to live under constant surveillance.

In December 1922, Prince Andrew was banished from Greece for life by a revolutionary court, thus forcing his family to evacuate to France. It is known that Prince Philip was carried in a fruit box all the way from Greece to France to be kept safe.

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[Jamestown1630]

I think she had a lot to do with destroying herself.

[A strike]

So what?

[gitmo]

OK. Apparently “consort” doesn’t mean “concubine”. I learned something new today.

[Jane Long]

I’m sure Camilla agrees.

[Jamestown1630]

People can spout whatever they want - however ignorantly.

But the British royal succession is not the Americans’ circus, and not our monkeys.

The nations operate differently, and the Queen has delivered her preference. It’s up to HER country to figure it out.

It’s amusing to see everyone commenting on it here - and amusing to see how much many seem to think that their thoughts matter.

[mass55th]

"They were scared of him and wanted to keep their heads."

Their cowardliness condemned many others to unjustly lose their heads.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: insinuating that if Prince William and Princess Katherine and family were killed in a plane crash, Harry would be King and MM would be...Queen.

Only if the royal children are also on the same plane ( God Forbid ).

[A strike]

So what?
You gotta problem with that?
I gotta problem with you.

[DJ MacWoW]

It's international politics and fair game. Do YOU comment on threads whose subject is a foreign nation? Bet ya do.

This is a discussion forum and we do that on a myriad of subjects......including Britain.

[simpson96]

Well, she’s toe’d the line all these years.

[Waverunner]

Charles thought she said the Queen concert.

[Adder]

Maybe they just retire the monarchy, figuring Queen Beth is the best they will ever do...

[Jamestown1630]

I suspect many of the family agree, too - at least those who witnessed everything personally, instead of just through tabloids.

I don’t think Diana was cut out for the job. She appears to have been too young, troubled, had exorbitantly romantic notions of what this kind of marriage would be like, and couldn’t cope with the reality.

Someone who hadn’t had adolescent stars in her eyes - or someone responsibly and wisely guiding her! - could have seen what would happen a mile away.

And when it did, life moved along.

I don’t spare her husband from blame - he and his family should have been smarter too.

But I also don’t know what it’s like to live under all of those very unique constraints.

[Jane Long]

It’s amusing to see everyone commenting on it here - and amusing to see how much many seem to think that their thoughts matter.

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Well, as of this post, you’ve posted NINE of those thoughts/comments.

You apparently think your thoughts matter.

[Republican Wildcat]

Did she actually say that?

[Churchillspirit]

So true. She was the love of his life.

[Jamestown1630]

I comment when I see a country like Red China committing atrocities against innocent people - or when another country does something that is harming my own.

The internal family decisions of an allied monarchy are different, to me.

We’ll deal with what we get. The point is, no matter how much we ‘splash and splatter’ we don’t have any say in what the Brits decide about the succession to their own throne.