Anglophiles must be really confused right now...

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On the one hand, there's going to be a veritable glut of British royalty press in the next few months.

On the other hand, it's Camilla.

How to react, how *TO* react.... poor dears.

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Di walking on water.

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Okay, now that confuses me. I remember around the time of her death that there were reporters in England tisking over the hoopla made of her funeral. Depending on who you ask, she was actually quite reviled there: the commoner who couldn't keep Charles happy, out on a nude beach, having spent a fair amount of her time avoiding the press, talking herself down (calling herself stupid, etc.), yedda yedda.

This was apparently why the royal family hadn't planned a big, splashy funeral for her -- she and Charles were divorced, and they figured that no one in the public had really cried over it. I recall hearing a snippet of one of the British news achors talking about how hypocritical the whole gala was. Indeed, I learned far more about all of her charity work and her deep friendship with Elton John and ... um -- a designer who died before she did -- after her death than I'd heard about before it happened.

So, from what little I've been able to piece together, it looks like there was a sharp 180 when Diana died, and people went from politely ignoring Camilla to villifying her.

As to the Queen vs. Princess-Consort thing, I'm still not sure of why it matters. Does the royal family actually hold any power anymore, or is it -- as I've been hearing -- purely ceremonial? It seems to me that the only reason to keep Camilla out of the running for Queen is that Diana died too early and it damaged Camilla's popularity ratings. I'm douting that this is international politics and would be surprised it if was even legally a national political issue -- it sounds more like social politicing to me.