The Queen is Dead, Long Live The King

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 9/8/22 at 1:45pm

The day has come and the worlds longest reigning monarch has passed away. Absolutely devastating.

Updated On: 9/8/22 at 01:45 PM

[Highland Guy]

Posted: 9/8/22 at 2:05pm

I have dreaded this moment.  "Ta Ta For Now," Elizabeth Alexandra Mary.

[EDSOSLO858]

Posted: 9/8/22 at 3:00pm

Farewell to an icon, a history-maker, a legend. 

Long live King Charles III — which means Camilla is now Queen Consort.

[Highland Guy]

Posted: 9/8/22 at 3:21pm

She honored her vow.

 

 

[fosterfan2]

Posted: 9/8/22 at 5:53pm

Yes,she really honored her vow--and then some! May she rest in peace.

[South Florida]

Posted: 9/8/22 at 8:50pm

Shatttered, can't breathe.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 9/9/22 at 12:19am

 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

 

https://www.royal.uk/

to sign the official on line condolence book

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Posted: 9/9/22 at 7:13am

Sometimes I forget what wonderful sense of humor she had.  
 

 

[Highland Guy]

Posted: 9/19/22 at 11:31am

Good Bye

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/4/22 at 4:41pm

I'm sorry, but I don't understand why you are all so devastated. She was not our queen. Canadians, I still don't understand why she was yours. Yes, she was a nice lady and I liked her, but the British Empire and all its colonial history is not really something to be admired. Strange, very strange.

Queen Margrethe of Denmark is also a very nice lady, I'm sure, and has been on the throne for fifty years. Nobody seems to care less about her, though.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 10/20/22 at 12:12pm

The Queens final prime minister and the Kings first prime minister, Liz Truss, has resigned after only 44 days in office. I hope the next Tory PM has the guts to call for an immediate general election.

[Highland Guy]

Posted: 10/20/22 at 1:56pm

My husband and I hope to be in London on May 6, 2023, for the coronation of King Charles III with his Queen Consort Camilla.  

A website for all (most) things Royal.

https://www.royal.uk/coronation-his-majesty-king

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/20/22 at 4:53pm

I hope to be far, far away from London on that date.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/22/22 at 3:00pm

Why is Camilla known as "the Queen Consort" instead of just "Queen Camilla"?

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/27/22 at 10:54am

Will you all be reading this?

Prince Harry. Spare.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 10/27/22 at 1:46pm

Jay Lerner-Z said: "Why is Camilla known as "the Queen Consort" instead of just "Queen Camilla"?"

Queen Consort is used as the official title of the wife of the ruling King. Queen is only supposed to be used for the reigning monarch. Diana also would have been Queen Consort if Elizabeth had passed before their divorce. It's also why Prince Philip was never given the title of King Philip (though apparently only Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, was the only one to ever officially be given the title of Prince Consort). 

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/27/22 at 2:47pm

Hm, thank you, but I'm still not sure.

Going back up the line of queen consorts, they were just known as the Queen Mother, Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra. Camilla should now be "the Queen" or "Queen Camilla", just like they were. It seems to me that she is somehow "lesser" because she is not the first wife of Charles. Which I find wrong, unfair, and demeaning to second spouses everywhere. I'm fairly sure Diana would just be called Queen Diana.

It also makes no sense to me why only women consorts rise to queen, but men consorts do not rise to king. Like Philip. It's like that title is somehow more sacred. Misogyny, of course.

[Highland Guy]

Posted: 10/27/22 at 3:10pm

Updated On: 11/13/22 at 03:10 PM

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 10/27/22 at 3:20pm

I'm sure that, should Charles's reign last for any length of time, you'll start seeing Camilla mostly referred to as just Queen Camilla, just for convenience, same as Philip was typically just referred to as Prince Philip, and not Prince Philip, Duke of Edinborough, Consort of the British Monarch. 

It's also, in some ways, a step up for Camilla. The original engagement announcement back in 2005 said that she would officially be titled Princess Consort when Charles would ascend to the throne. Earlier this year Elizabeth had announced that it was her wish that Camilla be titled the Queen Consort when Charles became king, which was viewed as the Queen making a PR move and cutting off debate about what her title should be before it could really begin. 

It also seems, at least based on wikipedia reading, that a lot of the rules and customs around titling changed with Victoria and during her reign, which would explain why the wives of the ruling king in the past may have had different titles. Or it could also be that we just think of them as Queens even though their official titles at the time may have been different. Like in the case of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. Her title while King George VI was still alive was indeed the Queen Consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions. After Elizabeth II was crowned she took on the title of the Queen Mother, and of course, because she ended up living another 50 years after that point, it's what most of us knew her as so is the title we will think of first in relation to her. 

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/27/22 at 3:32pm

I might give it a go too. He seems like the sanest of the royals. Which is probably why he's not a royal anymore. Why do people like Piers Morgan hate him so much? I genuinely don't understand... do they begrudge him living his own life, not following the company line?

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/27/22 at 4:11pm

You're right, AEA AGMA SM. Time might make a difference. Camilla gets crowned at the coronation too, I think. That could change perception.

Anyway, I'm not too sure why I'm worrying about this. A nice distraction from elections and climate change, I suppose. If that's a good thing or a bad thing, I don't know.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/6/23 at 10:33am

Poor Harry. I'm starting to worry that maybe he is not so sane after all. The result of what he was born into, of course. Abolish this circus now, Britain.

[fosterfan2]

Posted: 1/6/23 at 6:28pm

Well,at least he's a bit saner than the rest. I'm kind of interested in the book,too. I watched the "Harry and Meghan" documentary on Netflix.

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 1/10/23 at 7:00pm

King Constantine II of Greece has died. Does anybody care? What's the difference?

[David10086]

Posted: 1/11/23 at 10:57pm

Apparently no one cares about the King of Greece. I haven’t come across any media coverage.