Queen Elizabeth ll ~ Platinum Jubilee

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How Hermann Göring of you.

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nope not watching, the tv is full of this crap.

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dont beat yourself up posh southern tory boy.

@moonbus said
Camila was married to someone else.

But would she have been, had not the elder generations of the royal family been dead against her marrying Charles, a decade or so before?

@badradger said
bored crapless

You don't live in the USA or Russia, so you're free to switch channels and watch the footie.

@moonbus said
Edward did not have that luxury.

Maybe he never wanted to be King, maybe he preferred to be without those responsibilities and Mrs Simpson was his chance to live another kind of life, knowing she would never have been accepted by Queen Elizabeth. Just a thought.

@torunn said
Maybe he never wanted to be King, maybe he preferred to be without those responsibilities and Mrs Simpson was his chance to live another kind of life, knowing she would never have been accepted by Queen Elizabeth. Just a thought.

I believe Edward did not want to be king, with or without Wallis Simpson. Simpson was married when she met Edward, but Edward was not. The 'corporation' would not have let him marry an American divorcee; that was out of bounds. Hence, his decision to abdicate and retire to another country. It was not Elizabeth's decision; she wasn't queen then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallis_Simpson

The case of Charles and Camilla is slightly different, as she was still married to Parker Bowles, and Charles was married to Dianna, when Camilla and Charles became romantically involved. To have split up both marriages so Charles could marry Camilla would have been beyond the pale.

@torunn said
Maybe he never wanted to be King, maybe he preferred to be without those responsibilities and Mrs Simpson was his chance to live another kind of life, knowing she would never have been accepted by Queen Elizabeth. Just a thought.

The “new” Edward seems, from where I am seated, to to shun any real publicity but then I guess being so far down on the Totem Pole, he really is an afterthought.🤔

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No need for alarm. I am fairly certain you wake up that way!

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@moonbus said
I believe Edward did not want to be king, with or without Wallis Simpson. Simpson was married when she met Edward, but Edward was not. The 'corporation' would not have let him marry an American divorcee; that was out of bounds. Hence, his decision to abdicate and retire to another country. It was not Elizabeth's decision; she wasn't queen then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wi ...[text shortened]... ved. To have split up both marriages so Charles could marry Camilla would have been beyond the pale.

Isn't that what happened anyway?

Let's say Fate stepped in, just to avoid stepping on any British snowflake toes by placing blame.