It Is The Queen's Wish That Camilla Be Known As Queen Consort When Charles Becomes King

[MargoTester]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60274816

[Peter Pedant]

blimey god forbid - but it sounds as tho she expects to die during her jubilee year

[jno]

oh I think so, ladybirder. jno jnr at 12 was well taller than any of the kids in my class at that age, boys or girls. He's about 4 inches taller than his dad despite growing up on a diet of junk food that simply didn't exist in our day. Watching him at school, it was clear most of them were bigger than we ever were - and there's another generation behind him now; goodness knows how high they'll go.

///In 1967, Mr Average was 5ft 7.5in tall, weighed 11st 8lbs and had a chest of 38 inches and a waist of 34 inches.
He had size seven feet, a collar size of 14.5 and a life expectancy of just 68.
Fast forward 50 years, however, and British men have grown significantly.
The average British man is now 5ft 10in tall, weighs 13st 3lbs and has a chest of 43in and a waist of 37in.///

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/how-mens-bodies-have-changed-over-time-what-they-used-to-look-like-average-a7657881.html

[jno]

just to add, that's from 5 years ago; they've probably expanded another few millimetres since then.

[ladybirder]

Mine got bigger the more I had jno;-)). So the older I got ... LOL.

[jno]

yes, I'd be a great financial investor - I haven't just kept the figure I had in my youth, I've doubled it.

[jno]

oh and of course I've just looked up William and he's 6ft 2, so much the same increase in height as in our family.

[tomus42]

Translation: the Queen doesn't want Camilla to be the Queen when Charles becomes King.

[Mamyalynne]

You reading it differently to everyone else then?

//"Queen Consort" refers to the spouse of a ruling king and would mean "Queen Camilla" as her future title//

[Canary42]

So why didn't she call hubby King Phillip ?

[tonyav]

There was no King Albert when Victoria was queen either.

[tomus42]

Queen consort is different to just Queen I think.

Who gives a damn anyway? (apart from them). Most of us are thinking about how to pay the bills etc.

[Mamyalynne]

You give a damn, you had to have a dig at it.

[anneasquith]

This is true T. It appears being an mistress is no barrier to anything now .

[jno]

true, anne, even an adulterous one, even if you're head of the church. Well, I suppose I wouldn't want anyone's life wrecked the way Margaret's was; but I wonder if it isn't time the church was disestablished. (I suppose Scots would have to do this separately?)

[tomus42]

I don't though mam. I'm happy for the Royals to do what they want. It's the fawning from the public that puzzles me a bit.

[anneasquith]

Jno. Who knows. But in the future the country will have a king and queen who were adulterers .
If the people of the country are happy enough with that that is there prerogative.

[tomus42]

They are all just people. We should respect them as such and for doing a good job as most of them have.

[Boto]

I don’t care if Charles was an adulterer, I wasn’t married to him so didn’t affect me.

[LadyCG]

I think Camilla should get the recognition she deserves. She's taken a lot of flak over the years and has never been anything but dignified.