Fw: CHARLES & CAMILLA - ITS OFFICIAL

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Leo van de Pas

Fw: CHARLES & CAMILLA - ITS OFFICIAL

Legg inn av Leo van de Pas » 10 feb 2005 12:41:03

How correct you are, I had not thought of that aspect. In that case the
first message saying Camilla would be Princess Consort may be correct after
all. Lets hope Andrew Parker-Bowles has a very long life :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Stewart" <p_m_stewart@msn.com
To: <GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com
Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:21 PM
Subject: Re: CHARLES & CAMILLA - ITS OFFICIAL



""Leo van de Pas"" <leovdpas@netspeed.com.au> wrote in message
news:001401c50f5f$b3931dc0$c3b4fea9@email...

How stupid, if they are to marry she should be Princess of Wales.

I'm sure we are going to be treated to every possible opinion on this,
Leo -
people are already clearly over-excited by the announcement & everything
about the marriage - but remember that however stupid it may seem there
was
no possible alternative for the queen.

There is a sacral aspect to her role in addition to the civil, as
discussed
in another thread recently: as well as being head of state (actually of
several states, that all will recognise the marriage fully) she is
Supreme
Governor of the Church of England, which still in theory insists that
every
canonical marriage is indissoluble. Mrs Parker-Bowles has a previous
husband
living. If he shouild die, there will be nothing to stop her becoming
princess of Wales and queen, but while he lives and Prince Charles may
yet
have to take a coronation oath of his own, with the best will in the
world
this cannot happen.

Things that seem stupid may have an inexorable logic to them, if only
certain premises are accepted that, however outmoded you think them, are
simply not subject to changing customs or whims of the time.

Peter Stewart





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