Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall Current Events 26: August 2010-December 2014


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Very true. It's about time they attend an event with their royal counter parts.
 
The standard protocol is for heirs to thrones and their spouses to attend these events, unless they are underage. This allows the new monarch to be the senior person present as the representatives of the other monarchs aren't monarchs in their own right.
 
I dont know the answer to your question, but my immediate response was - what on earth were they looking at??? I think they are in Australia for the Melbourne Cup (might be wrong) but it is a great picture!

Anyone know what was happening?
 
The Queen and the Duke & Duchess of Cornwall each host world royalty last year, to a rousing success from what I could see. I think they get together fairly often. The logistics of coordinating the royals, their staffs and their individual security details with accomidations must take months to plan.
 
That picture is from last year's Melbourne Cup - but with so many great photos of the pair taken that day why chose that one.
 
I know what you mean. I love the Wessex's but I do think Charles & Camilla or William & Catherine should be involved in the continental royal events, as Charles & William are the heirs to the throne. Whereas Edward is down the list.
 
lightningbearer said:
I'm so pleased they're going :) no offence but I get sick of seeing the Wessexes at all the big royal events, its about time C & C went to a mjor royal function! Hopefully we may get some tiara wearing and dutch orders heading Camilla's way!
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Completely agree :flowers:
 
Dman said:
I know what you mean. I love the Wessex's but I do think Charles & Camilla or William & Catherine should be involved in the continental royal events, as Charles & William are the heirs to the throne. Whereas Edward is down the list.
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I wonder if they've done this because Edward and Sophie are much closer in age and stage (have a young family) to the other European heirs. I suspect Sophie has a lot more in common with Mathilde, Mette-Marit, Mary, Letizia etc. than Camilla does. Even more with Charles and the princes. He's 20 years older than most of them. On the other side, William was too young and focused more on his military career than a royal life. Of course, that's changed now, but just in the past 2 years.
 
lightningbearer said:
I'm so pleased they're going :) no offence but I get sick of seeing the Wessexes at all the big royal events, its about time C & C went to a mjor royal function! Hopefully we may get some tiara wearing and dutch orders heading Camilla's way!
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I would be surprised if you see any tiaras at the April 29th dinner. Other than state dinners and the annual Diplomatic reception Beatrix has never thrown a white tie and tiaras event in her entire reign.
 
Dman said:
I know what you mean. I love the Wessex's but I do think Charles & Camilla or William & Catherine should be involved in the continental royal events, as Charles & William are the heirs to the throne. Whereas Edward is down the list.
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I imagine Charles, Camilla, William and Catherine (more recently of course) have had the same oppurtunity to attend every royal wedding we've had in the past 8 years. Sophie and Edward represent The Queen who, I imagine, chooses or asks around who would like to go these "important" events. If no prior engagement is set, I see no reason as to why Charles and Camilla couldn't have attended the events Sophie and Edward have. The royal families of Europe have graced the BRF with their presence on more than one royal occasion. Yet the attendance has not been returned. I wonder why.
 
Same thoughts here, Lumutqueen. I think the Wessex's do a fine job on representing The Queen and family at the European royal events but I think The Prince of Wales & The Duke of Cambridge should be more involved with these kind of events.
 
Lumutqueen said:
I imagine Charles, Camilla, William and Catherine (more recently of course) have had the same oppurtunity to attend every royal wedding we've had in the past 8 years. Sophie and Edward represent The Queen who, I imagine, chooses or asks around who would like to go these "important" events. If no prior engagement is set, I see no reason as to why Charles and Camilla couldn't have attended the events Sophie and Edward have. The royal families of Europe have graced the BRF with their presence on more than one royal occasion. Yet the attendance has not been returned. I wonder why.
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There is a whole tread dedicated to this topic. In the UK we generally do not invite whole royals families to weddings etc as they do on the continent. Charles did attend the weddings in Athens, Oslo, Amsterdam, Brussels, Madrid and Seville as well as Tokyo,sometimes also with Edward and Sophie in attendance. He also attended Beatrix's 1980 inauguaration and various royal funerals so it is not as if he has ignored the continental royal families. Other than the wedding of Sonja and Harold (due to court mourning for Princess Marina) QEII has sent a family member to all the important royal gatherings on the continent, and they cant have been too offended because they seem to flock to London whenever they get an invitation.
 
Dman said:
The Prince of Wales & The Duke of Cambridge should be more involved with these kind of events.
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Personally I don't think The Prince of Wales is too fussed about european royal outsiders and The Duke of Cambridge has the "part time" royal thing going for him. If Charles and Camilla didn't show up to this inauguration and The Queen had sent an ambassador, I'd expect no one to show up to his coronation either. :lol:
 
Lumutqueen said:
I imagine Charles, Camilla, William and Catherine (more recently of course) have had the same oppurtunity to attend every royal wedding we've had in the past 8 years. Sophie and Edward represent The Queen who, I imagine, chooses or asks around who would like to go these "important" events. If no prior engagement is set, I see no reason as to why Charles and Camilla couldn't have attended the events Sophie and Edward have. The royal families of Europe have graced the BRF with their presence on more than one royal occasion. Yet the attendance has not been returned. I wonder why.
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My own view on why the more senior royals (HM, DoE, C&C) do not attend events hosted by other royal families (wedding, christening, birthday celebrations etc) is that they like to limit their public dealings with other royal houses to be very business-like. Perhaps this traces back to the end the first part of the last century when many a monarchy was criticised (and fell!) for hobnobbing withother royals and perhaps loosing touch with the commonon man, but to me it manifests itself in for example, a very low key lunch for other monarchs at the diamond jubilee, or Camilla never wearing a tiara overseas.

In private, I am sure the Windsors regularly meet with other royal families, but purposely limit their public exposure with them.
 
I am glad Charles and Camilla are attending this as it would have looked rather bad if every other Royal house had sent the Heir to the throne and the British hadn't. I see nothing wrong with Edward and Sophie attending the weddings and other Royal events. He's the son of the Monarch, not the cousin or nephew. It's a good representation and Edward has been doing it for years, even before he married Sophie. They are similar in age and have more in common, with young children etc. Charles and Camilla are quite a bit older and although they could of course socialise perfectly well, the Queen obviously knows the Wessex's do this part of their job well and can build relationships with the other Royals. They were after all invited to the 40th birthday of Willem-Alexander and Martha-Louise as friends, not as representatives of the Queen.

I am glad Charles is going as he attended Beatrix's inauguration so it's nice to see him attend Willem-Alexander's and I look forward to seeing photos of them with the other Royals.
 
I think the very low key lunch and Camilla never wearing a tiara has more to do with economics than it has to keeping their heads on, so to speak. If they can do it in private, they can do it in public. You don't see European monarchies falling for wearing a tiara to a wedding, having Charles show up now and again wouldn't hurt.
 
Lumutqueen said:
If Charles and Camilla didn't show up to this inauguration and The Queen had sent an ambassador, I'd expect no one to show up to his coronation either. :lol:
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I am sure all the royal houses would flock to a British coronation, irrespective of whether C&C attend the Dutch coronation or not. This was clealry evidenced by the attendance at the wedding of William and Catherine two years ago.
 
Lumutqueen said:
I think the very low key lunch and Camilla never wearing a tiara has more to do with economics than it has to keeping their heads on, so to speak. If they can do it in private, they can do it in public. You don't see European monarchies falling for wearing a tiara to a wedding, having Charles show up now and again wouldn't hurt.
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But Charles has shown up at weddings, and more than now and again, although he has never worn a tiara:lol:
 
muriel said:
I am sure all the royal houses would flock to a British coronation, irrespective of whether C&C attend the Dutch coronation or not. This was clealry evidenced by the attendance at the wedding of William and Catherine two years ago.
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Goodness me, yes. The attendance for Charles' coronation will be huge. I can see all the Monarch's AND Heir's attending. The British Monarchy is one of the oldest in the world and has such a strong history. So many of the current European families are descendants of the British Royals thanks to Queen Victoria marrying her children off.
 
Molly2101 said:
Goodness me, yes. The attendance for Charles' coronation will be huge. I can see all the Monarch's AND Heir's attending. The British Monarchy is one of the oldest in the world and has such a strong history. So many of the current European families are descendants of the British Royals thanks to Queen Victoria marrying her children off.
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Heirs yes, reigning or deposed monarchs no. It is the protocol for such events that foreign monarchs are represented but not invited. The only monarchs at QEIIs were not heads of sovereign states but were monarchs of protected states within the empire (like Salote of Tonga or the Sultan of Zanzibar) who ruled their states with the assistance of British Politcal Agents.
 
NGalitzine said:
But Charles has shown up at weddings, and more than now and again, although he has never worn a tiara:lol:
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I first read this as "Charles has thrown up at weddings", and I thought, No Wonder he Never Gets Sent!
 
Protocol dictates that heirs to thrones attend coronations not crowned heads so that the new monarch is the most senior royal present. If any other monarch is there that monarch, having been a monarch for longer, takes precedence as precedence is determined by length of time in office.
 
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