Because of the nasty reports going out, I doubt if the boys can succeed but I do admire them for trying because I don't think that Charles and the Royal House encouraged it so much. The Queen may not be media saavy but I think she predicted what would happen in the papers and I think she would have preferred to avoid it as would Charles and Camilla. The successes of their last two years together have been wiped out of the papers like they didn't even exist which is particularly unfair to Camilla.
Not for the first time, Ysbel, do I think that you're right on the money!
I don't know what The Queen thinks, but from past experience, she's against any display of pomp and circumstance surrounding private family matters.
If the gossip is true and it's Charles who's insisting on Camilla's attendance, then we can draw the conclusion that Camilla has a great deal more sensitivity and common sense than those around her. Which brings me to another reason why I dislike the idea of this memorial service.
Just who, do you think, will suffer from bad publicity, ill-will, criticism and indignation in all of this? Camilla, of course.
Who is going to suffer the odium of hypocrisy in the press? Camilla, of course.
Who suffers most when the death of Diana is continually harkened to, pronounced upon, discussed and dissected? Camilla, of course.
Diana's sons complain continually that the press won't let their mother rest in peace. But who is it, lately, who keeps thrusting her life and death into the limelight? And who does it remind ordinary people of and cause them to remember and reflect most poorly on? Camilla, of course.
As she'll be Queen one day (no matter what she's called), who deserves to have her reputation and integrity re-established and unquestioned? Camilla, of course.
This memorial does her, above everything else, a great disservice, I believe.
