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Posted: 10:48 Feb 10 2005
Charles to marry Camilla
So...
Clarence House has announced that Prince Charles is going to marry Camilla.
My first thought has to be 'what's the point?' and the second one is what are the royals trying to bury by announcing this?
Cyncial? me? Naturally!!
Any other opinions on this?
EDIT: Actually I think i'm pleased about this... don't we get an extra public holiday when there's a royal wedding? roll on April 6th
(Edited by Sydney 10/02/2005 09:29)
Clarence House has announced that Prince Charles is going to marry Camilla.
My first thought has to be 'what's the point?' and the second one is what are the royals trying to bury by announcing this?
Cyncial? me? Naturally!!
Any other opinions on this?
EDIT: Actually I think i'm pleased about this... don't we get an extra public holiday when there's a royal wedding? roll on April 6th
(Edited by Sydney 10/02/2005 09:29)
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Posted: 10:48 Feb 10 2005 
I have to admit that I don't really care whether he does or he doesn't. All the Royal Family are good for these days is opening things and pulling in the tourists. They have no real power at all (which is a shame in my view).
Posted: 11:40 Feb 10 2005 
Arrrrrrrrrrrrgh *buries head in sand to try and avoid the news for the next N months*
Posted: 15:33 Feb 10 2005
to me the press are making too much of this. So what if he marries her? He should have done it in the first place!
Posted: 12:40 Feb 11 2005
Who cares? They're not friends of mine so I don't have to go and buy a hat. People should worry about their own relationships and leave others to get on with theirs 
Posted: 14:39 Feb 11 2005 
Not really bothered what two adults do in the privacy of their own lives. Just don't think I should have to pay for the wedding (or the honeymoon, or every other day of their lives).
Posted: 00:25 Feb 12 2005 
Agreed! We were discussing this at work today and think it's strange they've announced when Charles' books are going to be examined.
by Jayjay
Just don't think I should have to pay for the wedding (or the honeymoon, or every other day of their lives).
(good quote you have, got that one in my car cd player)
But to be honest, I'm another who doesn't really care. They are still people afterall. All this original arranged marriage type stuff for royals is a bit dated, and failing in the same respect as "normal" marriages with divorces this century. He might as well finally make it official with Camilla.
Posted: 01:24 Feb 12 2005 
I had to chuckle at beardy liberal Rowan Williams assuring us he was cool with having a divorced serial adulterer running his church ... but then given the founder, guess that's an improvement!
Here's hoping the marriage finally ends the national obsession with this tawdry inbred soap opera.
Here's hoping the marriage finally ends the national obsession with this tawdry inbred soap opera.
Posted: 22:40 Feb 12 2005 I think that’s mainly because he, like most other people, realise that the royal family have very little power or influence in any of their ‘figurehead’ roles any more, so what they get up to is pretty much irrelevant.
by Byron
I had to chuckle at beardy liberal Rowan Williams assuring us he was cool with having a divorced serial adulterer running his church ...
(Edited by DJ Billy 17/02/2005 10:57)
Posted: 10:45 Feb 17 2005 A figurehead is a symbolic role, so they should be suitable for what they symbolise. The entire point of having a nominal leader is that they're not political and can act as a figure of unity. As Charles's grubby marital chaos makes him more controversial than any archbishop of Cantenbury could be, it makes his appointment totally counter-productive.
by DJ Billy
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I think that’s mainly because he, like most other people, realise that the royal family have very little power or influence in any of their ‘figurehead’ roles any more, so what they get up to is pretty much irrelevant.
Two conclusionss could be drawn. Figureheads don't have much point, and, if you do want one, find a better means of selection than the holy spunk lottery.
Posted: 18:57 Feb 17 2005 
Whoo, gimme an elected monarch!
by Byron
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Two conclusionss could be drawn. Figureheads don't have much point, and, if you do want one, find a better means of selection than the holy spunk lottery.
Posted: 19:01 Feb 17 2005 I think society's attitude towards figureheads has changed though. People no longer beleive that people are better or more important simply because they're *given* a role, just as people are no longer constrained by neing put in a 'class'. Therefore, people no longer see figureheads as rolemodels.
by Byron
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Two conclusionss could be drawn. Figureheads don't have much point, and, if you do want one, find a better means of selection than the holy spunk lottery.
Posted: 09:17 Feb 18 2005 Which begs the question, why have one at all. How ironic that the current Archbishop has gone seveal continents (ie Africa) out of his way to unify the global Anglican Communian while the supposed apolitical figurehead is about as suitable as appointing Tony Soprano to lead a taskforce into organised crime.
by DJ Billy
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I think society's attitude towards figureheads has changed though. People no longer beleive that people are better or more important simply because they're *given* a role, just as people are no longer constrained by neing put in a 'class'. Therefore, people no longer see figureheads as rolemodels.
Posted: 10:40 Feb 18 2005
Americans seem to have a fascination with the British royal family. I'm not exactly sure why, but it's a fact. Whatever they do is always big news here.
Posted: 16:59 Feb 18 2005