Post by RicoThat was Charles and Camilla who announced which title she would be known
by. It was also them who announced that on his assention to the throne that
she will continue to remain a HRH with the dignity of princess.-
That's a bit stickier. Camilla can of course use every title she's
entitled to, and is under no obligation to use the highest one
available. However all her husband's honours will merge with the crown
upon his ascension, so for her to go by anything else than Queen after
that, her husband the Sovereign will have to confer this something
else upon her.
And I can't say that I'm absolutly thrilled at this prospect. To me,
this looks a lot like implementing morganatic marriages in the British
RF through the back door. Either Charles shouldn't have married
Camilla at all or he has done so fully and completely.
Jan Böhme
No, it's nothing of the kind (introducing morganic marriage into the
RF), but a way to allow something that was going to happen anyway, the
marriage of PC and CPB; occur without totally driving the Diana-maniacs
up the wall. As it tis some see the couple of having their cake and
eating it as well, and that consumption is taking place on a woman's
grave. Think had Diana not died in the manner she did, and there was
only the nasty divorce, opposition to CPB being formally known as the
PssofW might not have caused so much concern.
There is also the fact that CPB's hands are not totally clean in this
matter, well at least not to everyone and thus giving her the whole bag
of tricks formally would seem as rewarding loose behaviour. Suppose the
RF and it's advisors are hoping that by the time PC comes to the throne
feelings will have cooled. Many voices have been raised in Parliament
and elsewhere about what would happen if the now DssofC is not made
queen when her husband succeeds. Though a regency is not in the cards,
IIRC there are other matters that fall to a queen consort, and don't
think many fancy having to dig up everything and cross out "queen or
queen consort" and fill in whatever CPB is would be called instead of
queen.