Camilla Parker Bowles married Prince Charles on April 9, 2005. It was the second marriage for both of them, which led to a number of issues about whether Camilla will ever become the Queen of England and whether Prince Charles can still remain the heir apparent as the first born son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip.
It is worth looking back through history and at other events to determine whether the two will ever take the throne. After all, Prince Phillip is rumoured to favour his grandson being the next King of Great Britain and Ireland instead.
In 1936, George VI became king. However, he was the second son of George V and wife Mary of Teck, so how did he become king? There was no death in the family, after all. It was because Edward VIII decided to abdicate the throne before his coronation in favour of love.
It would seem like religion shouldn’t play a part but when the monarch is the head of the Church of England, it does. After James II, a law was passed to prevent a Roman Catholic ever becoming monarch again and it has worked all this time. So, how can the queen consort be Catholic?
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Thanks, cmoneyspinner
@frankbeswick - Passion and commitment. Very admirable traits in your personality sir.
Truth, liberty and justice for all? Admirable ideals every country should embrace, regardless of its form of government.
No. cmoneyspinner, it was not you who mentioned scrounging.
Now for Blair [or BLIAR[ as he is known. He might have approached the royals about taxes, but the threat that he posed to liberty was greater than any politician in British history since Cromwell. Furthermore, he was accused of selling honours, but managed to wriggle out of it [lack of evidence!] The country was best rid of him. Give me the royals any day.
@frankbeswick -Whew! Had to go back and check what I wrote. I'm like: ' Crap! Did I say something about scrounging? ' OK. You're not referring to my remarks.
But since it has been mentioned. Wasn't Tony Blair the one who approached the royal family about paying taxes? Saw it in a movie.
You rightly bring up the scrounging accusation. It is unfair. The royal family have an income from the Crown Estates. The money from these estates is delivered to the Treasury, which then gives an allowance to the royal family called the civil list. They don't get anything from tax.
Secondly, they work. Prince William was a rescue pilot and Harry is an officer in the army. Prince Philip is the oldest commissioned officer in the world, as he still is officially the colonel in chief of many regiments, and his role is to chair the regimental benevolent funds that work for servicemen as they age or go into difficulties. The queen herself has to sign every act of parliament and perform official duties. William is now being given more duties as Elizabeth ages, and this is quite right.
@AlexandriaIngham - LOL x2.
(That means laugh out loud and lots of love.)
You can really get conversation going when you start people talking about their homeland, their religion or their opinion of how they run things if they were in charge. :)
England is an ally. Long as there is no war between US and y'all, you can have whatever kind of government you want. If you're happy, who cares what outsiders think? If they expatriate and go live in England then what they say counts. Otherwise, they just talking smack.
P.S. USA did have a royal family. The Kennedys. :)
Sorry I'm coming back to this so late! I was following the comments on my phone but struggle to log in and reply from it.
@cmoneyspinner: Thanks for sharing your views and opinions. I was speaking to an American friend yesterday who loves the royal family and says she'd love America to have one! I remember at William and Kate's wedding in 2011, the news teams interviewed so many Americans who had come over to see it all and knew more about the royal family than many Brits!
As for the powers, the Queen does have the final say. She can refuse to approve a bill but it's convention that she will allow it. The only time a monarch used the right to refuse was Queen Anne in 1705 (I think that's the right year off the top of my head), when she refused to allow the Scottish militia to form fearing that they would try to overthrow her and stop Britain from forming.
Personally, I'm a big fan of the royal family. It's our heritage and there is just so much history rooted in it. But, you can probably tell I'm a fan from my writing ;) Each to their own though. There are plenty of people in the UK who don't see the point of the royal family and view them as scrounging off the taxpayer (usually because they don't know enough about the royal family to know the truth).
Right, but not only that. There were issues about the selling of public honours, but there was never sufficient evidence to convict him. Though we all knew that he was as guilty as hell of all this and of making unjust war and telling lies.
Oh yeah! I remember Tony Blair. No one trusts him? It's probably because he (Blair) trusted our one time President (who admits to making 14 decisions during his administration) to give him correct information to make a decision about sending British troops to support the war in Iraq and that pissed off the Brits. Right?
I'm just guessing. IDK what goes on behind closed doors. As for Queen Lizzie, l like the old gal. I think she's a diplomatic peacemaker par excellence and useful for public relations. But that son of hers? Sorry! He is not a chip off the old block!
Bye the bye, I don't keep up politics. So if none of my comments are fact-based and just a lot of hot air, that's why! :)
My husband is from the Bahamas and grew up when his country was a British colony and relocated to the United States shortly after the Bahamians got their independence. He is now a naturalized American citizen. But he's more in tune with politics than I am.
Tony Blair, our one time prime minister! No one trusts him.
The prime minister is not the head of state, as he/she is technically under the monarch, though with more power in a consitutional monarchy like ours.