Jo of Palatine
Heir Apparent
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Or for that matter the one with The Princess Margaret? Well I know I forbade you to marry Group Captain Townsend when you were 4th in line and told you that you would have to give up your place in the succession and any money from the Civil List, but now Charles has made Camilla Non Negotiable so were going to have to give in, let him be continue to be heir to the Throne and retain the $million income from the Duchy of Cornwall...sorry I screwed up your life.
We have no real idea how the relationship between the Queen and her sister was at the end. Or if Margaret still harboured a grundge against her sister because of the strict "no" back then. Maybe Margaret had understood the reasoning and decided for herself that it wouldn't have been such a good idea. At least she was allowed to marry a rather unsuitable man later and her sister had allowed her to run wild as much as she wanted. I wish Beatrixfan would a dd a bit more input from the biographies he has read on Margaret.
As for "waiting" till Queen Mum and Margaret had passed: that happened in 2002 and still Charles and Camilla waited for 3 more years. No, IMHO - and this is as much speculation as anything else - Charles was tired of having to keep the woman he loved at the backburner, always to be afraid of gleeful, spitefully negative headlines when they were "caught" together, only because she was his mistress. As long as she was just his "girlfriend", he could not spend christmas with her, he could not take her with him on official trips, he could not have her by his side as much as they both surely wished. So IMHO the final straw was the Grosvenor-van Cutsem-wedding. Camilla had been friends with both the parents of the bride as well as as the groom but still it was not possible for her to be seated next to the man all people involved knew to be "her man" - because of the august presence of his parents. Look, this is plain ridiculous for a man and a woman of their age! So I guess Charles convinced Camilla that they should make a go for it. The important point for him IMHO was the question if she would receive a HRH and thus could share his social position with him. I don't think it mattered to any either him or her if she was "known as" "Princess of Wales" or "Duchess of Cornwall" or "Princess of Scotland" as long as she got the HRH. I doubt that for Camilla the title of Her Majesty is something she really cares about. What they both wanted was for her to be recognised as a full-fledged member of the family: by the Queen, by the family and by the public. That was what they got.
As for ever knowing the truth: Charles has been described as a man who believes in himself and his opinions, a man who wants the world to understand him and one who writes diaries which in part were already given to friends and even his biographer. I bet Charles has already started to select the parts of his diaries which shall be published once he is gone and made sure that they are not edited without his consent. At least that's what I believe. So just wait and see!