The Queen is Dead. Long live the King.

[Alistair]

 

[belamyi]

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In the 1300s France wouldn't be looking to invade Britain because, in the 1300s, Britain was France... reason why the Hundred Years War was started in 1337.

 

[belamyi]

Queen Camilla’s secret holiday to Spain: How the British monarch enjoyed a luxury finca as she took a break from the media frenzy back home - Olive Press News Spain

CAMILLA, the Queen consort, enjoyed a well-earned break in a luxury Spanish finca as crisis continues to engulf the UK’s Royal Family, it has emerged.

www.theolivepress.es

 

[rareboy]

A crisis? Really?

The King has cancer. His Doxie needs a break because she is a tired and tiresome old hag that no one but Chuck has the least feelings for. Kate is frankly surplus to needs at this point.

Slow the fuck down people.

 

[Latimer]

I hardly think that Cam's additional (?) "duties" while providing solace to Charles while he is being treated for cancer are so taxing that she is in desperate need of a sunny vacation in Spain.

 

[belamyi]

I hardly think that Cam's additional (?) "duties" while providing solace to Charles while he is being treated for cancer are so taxing that she is in desperate need of a sunny vacation in Spain.

You mean she was in desperate need of a sunny vacation in Spain, and didn't know how to justify it.

 

[Essex Boy]

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-...took-a-break-from-the-media-frenzy-back-home/

QUEEN CAMILLA’S SECRET HOLIDAY TO SPAIN: HOW THE BRITISH MONARCH ENJOYED A LUXURY FINCA ...

... Kate Middleton’s prolonged absence from public duties ...

Matters arising: Camilla is not the monarch; the Princess of Wales is not called Kate Middleton.

According to the television contributor, Camilla came to “hunt partridges” in a luxury finca used by King Juan Carlos and other members of the Spanish nobility and aristocracy.

So there you have it. Her trigger finger was itchy and she needed a bit of sport, that's all. I found plenty of photos of her hunting foxes but none of her shooting at dicky birds, so perhaps she only does it when nobody's looking. There is however this picture of someone who may or may not be the same Camilla of whom we treat, going head to head with a particularly mean looking giant dust mite.

 

[Latimer]

^
To give a few examples:

If Henry II's wife was known as Eleanor of Aquitaine,
Edward IV's wife as Elizabeth Woodville,
Henry VIII's wives as Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, et al,
Charles II's wife as Catherine of Braganza,
George III's wife as Charlotte of Meklenburg-Strelitz,
--you get the idea--then I think it not inappropriate that the current Princess of Wales be known as Catherine Middleton, or popularly, Kate Middleton.

I do get annoyed when I read "Lady Margaret Thatcher" when she's really Lady Thatcher, Margaret Lady Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher Baroness Thatcher. She would have hated being demoted with the courtesy title of a daughter of duke, etc.

 

[unloadonme]

I do get annoyed when I read "Lady Margaret Thatcher" when she's really Lady Thatcher, Margaret Lady Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher Baroness Thatcher. She would have hated being demoted with the courtesy title of a daughter of duke, etc.

That irritates me too. Even the BBC is unable to get it right.

On a point of pedantry, the daughter of a duke outranks a baroness, so "Lady Margaret Thatcher", whilst clearly wrong, is actually a promotion!

Order of precedence in England and Wales - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[belamyi]

Matters arising: Camilla is not the monarch

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Actually, in English a monarch is also "a person or thing that holds a dominant position"/"a supremely powerful or pre-eminent person or thing"/"one that surpasses others in power or preeminence", now that she is "vicepresidenting" Charles more so than ever.
While Spaniards usually, wrongly according to the RAE dictionary, speak of "the monarchs" to refer to royal couples: that is, the common but wrong usage in Spanish turns out to be right in English through a loan translation.

 

[NotHardUp1]

The princess is recovering from surgery. The media are desperate for there to be more to the story, particularly as the palace hasn't said much about the nature of the surgery involved. She hasn't been seen in public for two months. Now, shock horror, she's doctoring photos. The press are hoping for some sort of health coverup. They're going to be disappointed. As you say, it's not such a big deal.

It's a bit like mass mailings in marketing. They send out thousands, but only need one or two to bite for them to break even.

The Fleet Street lot spin, spin, spin, and out of sheer odds, they eventually DO have some nascent story that develops, after 99 that were meaningless.

Pure garbage.

 

[NotHardUp1]

^
To give a few examples:

If Henry II's wife was known as Eleanor of Aquitaine,
Edward IV's wife as Elizabeth Woodville,
Henry VIII's wives as Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, et al,
Charles II's wife as Catherine of Braganza,
George III's wife as Charlotte of Meklenburg-Strelitz,
--you get the idea--then I think it not inappropriate that the current Princess of Wales be known as Catherine Middleton, or popularly, Kate Middleton.

I do get annoyed when I read "Lady Margaret Thatcher" when she's really Lady Thatcher, Margaret Lady Thatcher or Margaret Thatcher Baroness Thatcher. She would have hated being demoted with the courtesy title of a daughter of duke, etc.

But, are we referring to those queens by historical monikers rather than their contemporary title, i.e., would the Middleton bit only be a reference to her after her life or reign?

 

[NotHardUp1]

That irritates me too. Even the BBC is unable to get it right.

On a point of pedantry, the daughter of a duke outranks a baroness, so "Lady Margaret Thatcher", whilst clearly wrong, is actually a promotion!

Order of precedence in England and Wales - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

That reminds me, the cast for Dune Part Two is listed on Google with Lady Jessica noted but Margot Fenring is not listed as Lady Margot.

To the point about BBC, it's becoming a certainty that if something is in television broadcasting, it is immediately suspect. Not only do news readers have less and less broad education, their editors and copy writers do, too, so the blunders are never caught.

 

[NotHardUp1]

To be honest...if this is what the British trailer dwellers find interesting, they need a fucking hobby.

The UK doesn't have enough trailers to feed a baby tornado. They're rowhouses.

In the US, the poor don't give two shits about the royals. It's the young soccer moms and their SUVs who drool over the imagined priviled in palaces.

 

[belamyi]

young soccer moms and their SUVs

Oh, so they do still exist.

 

[rareboy]

I would say though, that no one is more deserving of being treated badly by the Fleet Street gutter press than Camilla.

 

[rareboy]

Well Mattel has the monarchists covered at least.

 

[belamyi]

Well Mattel has the monarchists covered at least.

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What's that, Diana Spencer's shocking comeback edition?

 

[Kahaih]

/\ Weird thing, though, it looks way better/realistic than that AI crap

 

[belamyi]

But who's that Stepford wife actually supposed to look like?