AS her platinum jubilee passed, The Queen allowed her ardent followers a masked sigh of relief by announcing that Camilla will be given the title of Queen Consort if Charles ever becomes King.
At a time when energy prices are soaring, the UK is mourning more than 158,000 Covid deaths and the Government is mired in scandal, it is of some comfort that we will be saved the agony of a kingdom without a queen, we're reliably informed.
The cynical may say it is a pleasant distraction from the ongoing legal issues surrounding The Queen’s favourite son, Andrew, who is accused by Virginia Guiffre of sexually assaulting her. He denies all the allegations made against him.
However, it is doubtless, surely, that the sight of Charles and Camilla sitting side-by-side will be the best of the vista offered by these post-Brexit sunny uplands. (Did someone mention energy bills?)
Camilla’s public acceptance has been a long time in the making, as she was the subject of Prince Charles’s admittance of adultery in 1994, with many blaming her for the breakdown of Charles’s marriage to Princess Diana.
However, with this approval from the very top, she now has the kind of comeback story that will be an inspiration to more than one of her in-laws.
Prince Charles is a dedicated environmentalist and has a history of advocating green policies to the government. According to The Express, in 2018 he advocated for more to be done to encourage recycling as £140 million of clothing in the UK went to landfill.
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Camilla will recycle the Queen Mother’s platinum crown for Charles’s coronation, which is set with 2800 diamonds, including the Koh-i-nûr, which should put a dent in future figures.
Speaking of the honour, Charles said: "We are deeply conscious of the honour represented by my mother’s wish. As we have sought together to serve and support Her Majesty and the people of our communities, my darling wife has been my own steadfast support throughout.”
It comes as the Queen, who intervened in the Scottish independence referendum and whose grandson met in secret with Gordon Brown to discuss issues of the Union, has been praised on her platinum jubilee for her commitment to political neutrality.
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