Queen Camilla?

Queen Camilla?

By suggesting that the Duchess of Cornwall “could be” Queen Camilla when he becomes king, the Prince of Wales managed the astonishing feat of sparking a controversy that knocked even Prince William and Kate Middleton off the front pages last week. His off-the-cuff comment, made during an interview with the American broadcaster NBC that was shown on Friday night, was immediately spun by his closest aides as a slip of the tongue, made when he was “caught unawares” by an unexpected question.

Regardless of his intentions, the Prince has made it as clear as the Cullinan diamond that his one-time mistress could become Britain’s first queen consort since the late Queen Elizabeth was crowned in 1937. But will she?

“There is no constitutional reason why the Duchess of Cornwall shouldn’t be crowned queen,” says Sarah Richardson, associate professor of history at Warwick University. “There is no law that says a divorcée is excluded and, of course, Charles was himself divorced from Diana.

The very fact that the Duchess is being talked about as a future Queen Camilla is a quantum leap forward from the position as recently as five years ago, when the Prince married the then Camilla Parker Bowles in a civil ceremony at Windsor Guildhall. At the time, the very suggestion that “the Rottweiler”, as Diana called her, could become queen was so unthinkable that New Labour came up with the “Princess Consort” title to head off an anticipated public outcry.

Fast forward to 2010 and David Cameron left little doubt that he would give his blessing to a joint coronation if the Prince became king on his watch.

“I’m a big Camilla fan,” he said. “I think the country is getting to know her and getting to see that she is a very warm-hearted person with a big sense of humour and a big heart.”

Read further to see why Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, could very well be Queen when her husband takes the throne.

Article: The Telegraph

Prince Philip to scale back duties, palace says

Britain’s Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth, is going to scale back his activities when he turns 90 next year, Buckingham Palace said Tuesday.  Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is patron or president of more than 800 organizations and charities, the palace said.

“When he reaches his 90th birthday, he has decided to stand down from a number of organizations with which he is directly associated in order to ensure their continuity.”

Article:  CNN

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