I read about a large library that had several magazine racks scattered about so in the name field of their subscriptions they’d have which rack the magazine should go to. One address for Back Hall got some junk mail with one of those companies that will print up your coat of arms that extolled how prestigious the Hall family was and they really should commemorate it by buying one of their prints.
They bought one, framed it, and hung it on the wall behind the rack.
From the replies it seems that she may be referred to as HM Queen Dowager Camilla
Based on what I saw on Downton Abbey, won’t they call her the Dowager Queen?
King Charles Gets Pissy Over Pens | The Daily Show - YouTube
funniest take on the pen kerfuffle. he did remind me of a cat hissing and knocking things over.
ironed shoelaces explains soooo very much. good thing someone tried getting the boys to go a different direction.
Years ago, I read that someone puts the toothpaste on his toothbrush for him, as an example of how he lives.
I also read that when the queen was at Balmoral, meal preparation and washing up (doing the dishes) was done by her and her family, so it was, more or less, a normal existence. I wonder if that’s how things will go when he goes to Balmoral.
Well, up to a point. They did the cooking and the washing up when they had a barbeque. There was something of a tradition of having one when the Prime Minister was visiting. If one was being cynical, one would say that this was either a way of impressing the PM or freaking them out. It also made for a safe anecdote for each PM to tell whenever they were asked what the Queen was like.
O.k. now I want to know how many stuffed animals does Charles have on his bed.
Andrew weirds me out. That boy ain’t right.
My guess is the bears are an attempt at compensating for his unhappy childhood.
And he and his second wife, Caroline of Brunswick, were pretty much separated for most of their marriage. He kept trying to find ways to divorce her, but it never worked out.
As for the Mountainbattens – today they’d call it an “open marriage”. One of Edwina’s lovers was Nehru. Louis had a long term affair with Shirley MacLaine and there are rumors that he swung both ways.
IIRC, he’s also the one who set up Philip and Elizabeth.
By all accounts he had a happy one.
If you’re interested in this sort of thing, Darren McGrady’s Youtube channel is worth a watch - he was personal chef to the Queen and family, including Charles and Diana, for a good stretch of time, and he often peppers his recipes with anecdotes about the royals’ dining habits.
I don’t know why, but I think it would be a hoot if Charles’ servant placed this pen on his desk:
The prior norm for a widowed queen consort with a unique name would simply have her referred to as Queen Camilla.* That could well be a century after the last time that circumstance happened, though; is it really traditional if nobody alive has ever done it? I guess you could ask that about a lot of stuff that will be happening.
*For example, from the official record of the coronation of George VI:
PROCESSION OF:
HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARY,
with
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN OF NORWAY.
Her Majesty Queen Mary, with Her Majesty the Queen of Norway, proceeded in State from
Marlborough House to Westminster Abbey. On arrival at the Royal Entrance to the Abbey .at
10.35 o’clock, Their Majesties were received by the Earl Marshal, and joined by the Ladies
and Gentlemen of their Households in attendance and conducted to the seats reserved for them
in the Royal Gallery..
I think Charles may be somewhat easily irritated by nature, and also a lover of routine. He’s shown fussy petulance in the past. If that is how he is then he probably struggles sometimes with behaving well in public.
Given he’s currently had three major life stressors in one day (loss of a parent, loss of a job, start of a new job) he’s not at his best. Grief and stress tends to make one more of whatever one is at base, so if he’s inclined to be fussy and irritable he’s only going to be more so after a triple whammy like that.
He’s not his mother, and never was. He never will be. He doesn’t seem to be as inherently likable (I say “seem” because the public never or very seldom saw the real Elizabeth under the crown, in public she was very much playing a part). But you don’t get to elect the king, he’s whatever the genetic dice rolled combined with a dash of upbringing.
I sometimes wonder if Charles was why Diana tried so hard to expose her boys to normal life and normal people.
In any case, I expect that publicly, at least, Charles will “mellow” a bit with time and less stress and grief. I also expect there will continue to be occasional stories about him being a spoiled brat in private.
I can understand the occasional flash of irritation at things not working smoothly, if only on the principles of “I’ve got to jump through all these hoops perfectly, why can’t you” and “You had one job to do…”
The Queen occasionally had that impulse too, but usually managed to confine herself to The Look.
Her father and grandfather could also have short fuses, by all accounts.
Between recent images of his hands being swollen and alleged problems with arthritis it may be a matter of his hands not working very well anymore, leading to difficulty with manipulating small objects - like pens - and understandable frustration with the situation. Especially if one’s new job requires signing documents on camera while one fumbles with a small object with swollen, painful, stiff hands.
Or maybe the King is a spoiled brat.
Or, you know, it could be both…
YES! I love his channel.
P.S. He now lives in Dallas and runs a local catering business called Eating Royally. His daughter went to college in the Dallas area and one of his YouTube videos is about the time he catered a posh luncheon for her sorority sisters. What a kick! He has another website called The Royal Chef where he offers services outside Dallas.
Now returning you to the discussion in progress…
Yeah, could be issues of old age coupled with the stress of the new weight of responsibilities. But both those incidents happened when he was well aware that he was on camera. Makes one wonder what he’s like with the servants when no cameras are on him 