In an ideal world, Kate Middleton and Camilla Parker-Bowles (otherwise known as HRH The Duchess of Cornwall) would realize how much they had in common and simply get along. However, the tabloids love controversies, so there have been endless stories about Camilla and Kate fighting, Camilla being judgy about the wedding dress, Camilla pulling rank, and Kate whining about Camilla to William. Probably none of it is true. And now Camilla is making an effort to talk up Our Little Waity! Aw…
She has taken Kate Middleton to lunch and accompanied the bride-to-be to the ballet. Now, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, has given Kate a very public thumbs-up.
“Kate’s a lovely girl,” Camilla, 63, said Wednesday during a visit to Covent Garden Academy of Flowers in London. Of Middleton’s joining the family, Camilla said, “We’re very lucky. I’m very much looking forward to the wedding.”
She also spoke about the role her granddaughter, Eliza Lopes, 3, will play come wedding day April 29 – as a bridesmaid.
“She’s only 3, and it will be quite nerve-wracking for a little one. But she will enjoy it,” said Camilla – who also made it apparent that her mind is on the upcoming big event.
While making a table decoration with some of the flowers, she also quipped to the students. “If I could do a few more of these, we could save money on the wedding.”
[From People]
Oh, nice little aside about the flowers. Maybe that story about Camilla trying to get Waity to cheap out on the wedding is true.
Another thing – it just occurred to me that Camilla is reinforcing Kate’s current “commoner” status by using the name “Kate”. All of the official releases from the Buckingham Palace and St. James Palace use “Catherine”. Camilla is going rogue (and perhaps being bitchy) by using the commoner address of “Kate”.
But seriously, why aren’t the tabloids comparing Kate to Camilla instead of Diana? Kate has way more in common with Camilla. Kate is slightly older than William – just like Camilla is with Charles. Camilla waited and waited and doted on Charles, just like Kate did with William. Both Kate and Camilla wore the “royal girlfriend/mistress” tag for years and years before getting the ring. And both William and Charles chose women that they hoped would not overshadow them. Basically, Camilla and Kate should get along really well.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I’m not that old but I still remember how much Diana suffered because of this rottweiler. I think it’s of poor taste that this woman comments publicly about matters that only concern the boys’ family. Sorry… I just hate this mistress.
(*sigh*) These types of stories will go on and on and on…until Camilla or Kate kicks the bucket, whichever comes first.
Hmm. All those pictures make me wonder if she’d rather be boning Harry. He’s pretty cute.
And they have similar taste in hats!
I’m going to give Camilla a pass this time and hope they are not fighting (I don’t see why they would).
Kate’s hat is hideous.
I think the media and whoever makes all these cups and stuff are going overboard with all the wedding memorabilia.
@Kiki
I totally agree. She should shut her damn mouth about anything to do with Williams personal life as she had such a big hand in screwing up his childhood.
Love the Brit’s hats. They look like fun except when it’s windy. We seem to get to play with them only at the Kentucky Derby.
Camilla looks like a cross between a pit bull and a rottweiler and Charles looks like a bassett hound. Can you imagine what their mutual kids would have looked like?
I saw an interview with Helena Bonham-Carter and the interviewer said he had actually met the Queen Mum. The Queen Mum said that the way to get everyone to like you is to never say anything. I think she was right.
What’s with that single feather green hat of Camilla’s? Ugh….stuck a feather in her cap and called it mac-a-ro-ni….
And FWIW, I think those two get along fine. And if they don’t, Kate doesn’t have to worry about Camilla much longer. She will be so much more popular than Camilla so I think the public will be on Kate’s side, and she’ll have her Prince. So, really, who gives a crap what Camilla says, does, or thinks.
@Jackson – Ugh….stuck a feather in her cap and called it mac-a-ro-ni…. that’s too funny!
OK, the only thing I care about here is Camila’s hat in the 4th pic from the bottom, where she’s gawking at the soldier. It’s like the hat designer didn’t even give a crap! They took some nasty old beret and stuck a feather on it. No other decoration, no hiding of the bottom of the feather or weaving it in…just BERET, BAM!, GLUE, BAM!, FEATHER, BAM!…HAT!
It’s ridiculous!!!
I was very young during the whole mistress scandal years back, but I remember looking at pictures of Camilla while Diana was still alive and being utterly perplexed.
“Her?”
Curious to know the general sentiment towards Camilla years on, from both the public and the Family’s perspective. Is she still looked on as a leper or has she earned her keep? Obviously she’s no Lady Di, but I wonder if she isn’t being passive-aggressive because she’s still the royal butt (or tampon) of the joke.
Who cares about this old bag’s opinion? Wasn’t she the one trying to befriend Diana during her engagement to be closer to Charles? That’s when Diana knew something was up and shunned her a%$! Poor Diana, she only wanted to be happy, but couldn’t because of this old bag.
The only one who WEARS the “girlfriend/mistress” tag is Camilla!
The hat with the feather was supposed to mimic the cap badges that the 4th batallion wears. There was even a pin that was the same as the one’s they wear. But the feather just ruins the whole look.
@kiki and @curmudgeon…I agree with both of you. Camilla is a total skanky bitch who should keep her friggin mouth shut. In fact, she should just skip the wedding….and so should that bitch Queen Elizabeth.
No one in that triangle was squeaky-clean. Charles and Camilla and Diana were ALL unfaithful in their marriages, and it was certainly a group effort when it came to making the boys’ childhoods difficult and unhappy.
How can charles stand to be with this woman! She looks like a man in drag! Yeah really she shouldn’t be saying anything about anything! Taking into account what this Royal Butt(i like that) says is just utterly ridiculous! Keep your nose out of it u hag!
And Kate better watch her back because it seems to me like Camilla picks on her w snippy comments and she’s probably condescending as all he&@!
Oh my…. people are always so much about looks, obviously Charles wasn’t allowed to marry Camilla, the love of his life, but had to take a “young, sweet girl” with whom he had nothing in common. Diane was a little chit who MAYBE was in love with Charles but also MAYBE was in love with the thought of being a princess…. this seems just like a soap opera to me!
But soap or not…. love is not only about looks! So leave Camilla aaaaaaaaaalllllllllloooooone! 😉
(This is one of my more confused posts)
I just read something in New York Mag about how the elite really look down on Middleton because of her lack of lineage. Apparently even the Spencers looked down on the Windsors at the time of the Charles & Di marriage because the Spencer lineage is much more prestigious. What a bunch of inbred snobs they all are.
As if we ought to really care about what Camilla thinks. How ‘plastic’ can anyone be? Maybe Charlie likes ‘plastic’?
I agree with kathy@kiki and @curmudgeon-I truly believe this woman has no heart or soul for her conscious efforts to destroy Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s marriage. I am not giving Prince Charle’s a free pass either, but this woman was an active participant in breaking up Prince William’s family. I am utterly astounded at how Prince William allows her to have any influence over his future wife and family.
I like Camilla. She looks like she’d be fun to hang out with, and certainly that love affair is very real and lasting. It was a mistake for him to marry Diana. people make mistakes.
I agree with you Missy.
There is no excuse for what they did to Diana. NONE. He married a naive utterly uninformed virgin over a decade younger than him while he was carrying on a relationship with a married woman. He could have just kept on with his affair and delayed the marraige until he was ready or just abdicated for heaven sakes. It doesn’t matter if Diana was ‘maybe in love with fame’. What 19 year old knows what love is? The consequences for her were horrific (and I am not talking about her death). And the fact that Camilla will be Queen eventually even if it’s not formally acknowledged is shameful.
WE could save money on the wedding?? The royal family is paying for the wedding and Kates family not Camilla. What a back handed comment to make publicly. Shes a cow!
Does she think we are buying her Kate is lovely story?! No way!Camilla is so jealous of Kate getting the royal wedding she could never have. Kate is marrying Camillas, arch enemy (Diana) son and will most likely be royal heiness whereas Camilla might not ever hold a title if Charles absconds throne to his son which he very well may do. Kate is also wearing the ring Charles gave Diana which you know kills Camilla!!
Camilla needs to grow old gracefully instead of being bitter the rest of her life and trying to take down Kate in her jealousy of Diana.
It’s understandable, really. No one’s ever really cared about Camilla – she probably still always hears “Diana this, Diana that” – and now it’s started with “Catherine this, Catherine that.” Once Kate and Wills are married, whatever role Camilla has (which has never been as large a role as she’s wanted) will be further diminished. I totally buy that Camilla is directing a lot of jealousy toward Kate right now.
Well, duhhhh. Who really cares what the ULTIMATE husband stealer thinks? Wouldn’t it have been so much better to have Diana as a mother-in-law? I’m sure she would have proved more challenging in the beginning, but what a fashion icon to have for an adviser, and a much needed sympathetic ear to the freaky life of the Royals.
Will Camilla become Queen? Calling scholars out there! She is The Duchess of Cornwall, NOT the Princess of Wales. I have also heard of a concept called the morganatic marriage (from ancient times) that may apply in this case:
“of, relating to, or being a marriage between a member of a royal or noble family and a person of inferior rank in which the rank of the inferior partner remains unchanged and the children of the marriage do not succeed to the titles, fiefs, or entailed property of the parent of higher rank”-from Merriam Webster website.
So, in Camilla’s case, she would not become Queen, although her noble title might be upgraded.
Also, Diana and Charles divorced before Diana died, so Charles does not have the safe haven of being a widower.
QE-II is pretty strict about protocol, so I doubt she would let this one slip by, even though it is obvious that she prefers Camilla to Diana. Charles is still her heir, so she has some say in the requirements she leaves behind in her will. That said, she will not ask Charles to abdicate upon her death, not after what her father went through, becoming king upon Edward VIII’s abdication. The Royals have never, ever recovered from that, even though her father was a much better king than Edward the VIII (friend of Hitler) would have ever been.
diana also cheated on her hubby
You are correct.
@bite me Did Diana already have a boyfriend while she was married? NOPE she had an affair after she realized that even after having children etc. etc. with Charles he would never stop being in a relationship with Camilla. A relationship he carried on from before their engagement and throughout her marriage.
saint diana cheated… what does diana not having a boyfriend before her marriage to charles have to with anything… oh my bad poor naive little 19 years diana, whatever.
Whatever if Diana cheated… I truly believe that men cheat because they can. In Diana’s case, I think she cheated because she was looking for true love… I don’t think she was a saint but this Camilla gal is a bitch… And so is Charles.
@REALIST – I think you’re right about the “will she/won’t she” be queen question WRT to the type of marriage they have. IIRC, there was some sort of agreement they came to before they got married which said that while Camilla would have a title, in the event of the Queen’s death, Camilla would never ascend to the throne as Queen herself. I’m pretty sure it was written up in the papers at the time.
And I buy that she is not-so-secretly jealous of the attnetion Waity is getting right now.
REALIST: “Will Camilla become Queen? Calling scholars out there! She is The Duchess of Cornwall, NOT the Princess of Wales. ”
Actually, Camilla IS the Princess of Wales. She just goes by Duchess of Cornwall because people associate POW with Diana. Diana was also the Duchess of Cornwall. Also, Duchess is a higher title than Princess, because Duke is higher than Prince. That’s why the princes get duchys when they marry.
Ok, I actually gotr curious enough to search and these are two links that were intersting, IMHO.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Once_becoming_King_will_Prince_Charles'_wife_Camilla_become_Queen
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1331296/Camilla-Queen-Charles-breaks-year-silence-future-role-second-wife.html
There’s a distintion between “Queen consort” and “Queen regent” – Camilla would be the former, not the latter.
Cheyenne: Camilla looks like a cross between a pit bull and a rottweiler and Charles looks like a bassett hound. Can you imagine what their mutual kids would have looked like?
Yes I can.. ugly as a plate of mortal sins. There are no two ways about it.
BW: sorry to disagree, but Duke is not higher than Prince. You are born a Prince; you are given the title of Duke at the sovereign’s discretion. There are noble Dukes (Duke of Wellington, for example) who inherit the title but are not of royal birth. I agree with you, though, that Camilla is, indeed, the Princess of Wales, but for obvious reasons does not call herself that. I’ll bet that Charles finds a way to make her Queen consort when he becomes King.
At above-I guess we’ll all found out when QE-II passes. Given her genes- didn’t the Queen Mum live past 100, even with her affection for horses and Pimm’s?-
perhaps Camilla should be considered the waity (along with Charles) now.
@bite me I just don’t think you can compare the two things. Charles had no intentions of ever being faithful to Diana nor did he have intentions of putting any effort into the marraige. Diana didn’t cheat until that was clear. I didn’t say Dianna was a Saint. But whatever faults she had Charles and Camilla’s horrible behavior is over the top.
I don’t think “Kate” is a diss on Camilla’s part. I mean, King George VI was referred to as “Bertie” by his family. “Kate” is the name she uses usually – why wouldn’t her future MIL call her by the name she prefers?
Isn’t Camilla actually the Princess of Wales? However she goes by the Duchess of Cornwall because everyone associates Princess of Wales with Diana.
And well Kate and William’s story is very different from Charles and Camilla’s. The only thing they really have in common is that they will soon both be married to royals. 8 years is nothing compares to two decades in Charles and Camilla’s case! (Oh and the whole breaking up of Diana and Charle’s marriage)
Diana knew about Charles and Camilla and married him anyway. Perhaps she was hoping that once they were married the relationship with Camilla would come to an end.
IIRC, I thought a divorced person could NOT ascend to the throne? Both Charles and Camilla were divorced from their resepctive spouses, wasn’t that why they couldn’t get married in the Church of England? I thought that if they’re divorced and not married in the church then they couldn’t be the leader of the church and sit on the throne? I don’t know, perhaps I’ve watched too much of the Tudors on Showtime and am getting confused and someone out there can correct me…
1. @Isabel: ROTFLMAO 🙂
2. I still want to know: If her name is Catherine, why is her nickname Kate and not Cate?
3. The hats in these pictures are hideous, but I’ll be damned: Barbara Walters did a quick segment on The View profiling a shop in London that sells hats .. and there was some fine shit in that shop … and they are EXPENSIVE. Babs bought a derby that was about $1k American and that was one fine hat … suitable for that Dog Party in Go, Dog, Go!
Now I want a friggin hat!
@Jackson
That’s Camilla’s pimp beret. You know how she runs her b!tch Prince C!
Am i the only one aroud here who sees the chemistry between Kate & Harry!!? 😀
yah! kate looks like a sweet innocent girl. but she needs to be true to herself. stop acting or immitating like princess diana. at the end the day you want to be loved for who you are and not because you remind him of his mother. its okay to trick the guy. Guys are easily fooled. Show them your boobs. There all over you. Its a tough crowd. Money can buy anything even happiness sometimes. Princess Diana thought she would be happy when she become a princess.But we know what happen to her.
The step-mom of Diana had the suspision that she’s lost her “innocence” before the wedding.There was interview of some Diana’s uncle(bi-polar, comited suicide later), who clamed she’s suitable bride in every aspect.There were other reports that she was “too shy” at the medical check in the palace so it wasn’t completed acording to the doctors.
Anyway I don’t want to advocate for Charles but to remind you that several years prior to Diana’s death she didn’t have many friends among newspaper/magazine/tabloids editors and the articles about her were NOT favorable at all.
Ah ah that’s totally not it.
I think English people totally see Kate as the new Diana, their favourite princess, not Camilla (the horse cheater etc.). So it’s likely that Camilla is stressed over Kate’s popularity and better image, and is trying to take lead.
The thing is Camilla seems like a stealing-husbands bitch while Kate seems a nice, down to earth girl, simply, pretty and genuine. So of course Camilla’s gelous ahah.
@LuckyCharm I think after Henry the 8th those rules changed. Yes a divorced person can ascend the throne, also since Diana is dead that marriage isn’t valid anyway. Although the official party line is that if Charles becomes King, Camilla would be his consort but since they are married technically speaking she would be Queen.
As someone who woke up really early to watch Charles and Diana’s wedding (and even took her name for my middle name!), I actually have developed a lot of sympathy for Charles, who clearly loved Camilla for years but was forced to marry a suitable bride.
Many of you probably remember Diana’s brother’s eulogy at her funeral, in which he blamed the royal family for having caused her such misery.
A few years ago, I attended the travelling exhibition of Diana’s wedding dress and other personal items, and what infuriated me about the exhibit was realizing the depth of HER family’s role in getting her into the royal family. Her diaries showed that at first her family tried to set up her older sister with Charles (Diana had sketched a seating chart for a dinner at which her sister was given the favoured seat close to Charles), and when that didn’t work, surprise! Let’s try Diana!
That realization made the original version of her brother’s eulogy, which was even more scathing of the royals than the one he spoke at the funeral (and was displayed in the exhibit beside the publicly heard version to show the royal family’s edits and engender some sympathy for his efforts on behalf of his late sister), sickeningly hypocritical. I actually sympathized with the royals’ editing of his eulogy, as they no doubt were aware that her family was not innocent in the matter.
I just glad that this time, William and Kate do love each other.
Kate and Camilla are two peas in a pod. Two women who manipulated weak Prince’s in the boudiour. Kate first got asked out on a date with Prince William while wearing underwear.
Camilla is Kate’s stepmother-in-law and can comment on Kate since she has known her for the past 8 years having had lunch with Kate and William at highgrove. The two get along well.
Camilla outranks Kate, because Camilla is married to the immediate heir to the Throne. Kate will curtsey to Camilla just as she would the Queen and any other Royal who outranks her in status.
Camilla will be Queen Consort when Charles becomes King no matter what the press writes.
Kate may not even be called Princess on her wedding day, the Queen may bestow a Duchess or Countess title on Kate.
Kate will most likely have to wait until Camilla and Charles take the Throne,to be able to use Princess because for now Camilla has the Princess of Wales title.
Reacourt, Camilla is not the Princess of Wales, she is the duchess of cornwallis. Princess of Wales can only be given to whomever is going to be queen and it won’t be her. If I am incorrect, i apologize to the British.
Camilla looks like an OLD rotweiller. What a bitch. If she did not screw Charles and destroy his marriage, Diana would have had a happy life with her family. She will rot in hell one day, that is for sure. I also think Kate is a fortune hunter and not suited to William, but her family groomed her for the part. Whatever. Britons will pay taxes, live in poverty themselves and enrich their KINGS AND QUEENS.
Isabel, the remarks about Camilla’s hat with the feather glued on to it were hysterical. I was doubled over laughing,looked at the picture again then really started laughing. You were not exaggerating. LMAO
@Cyd, Camilla IS The Princess of Wales, she just doesn’t use the title because of the association of the name with Diana. Camilla is also the Duchess of Cornwall and she WILL be Queen Consort when Charles is crowned King. There is talk that she may choose to be known as Princess Consort but that remains to be seen.
Charles and Camilla used a naive Diana to fulfill hid royal obligation. They thought they could still fool around while the brood mare produced the heir and spare. Diana loved and didn’t want to share her husband. She did not accept the rules of nobility about wives not caring about mistresses. Camilla and Charle were selfish pigs before Charles even started up with Diana. Diana’s affair started after Charles made it clear that he was only interested in Camilla. Three cheers for Diana having integrity about not just accepting her husband’s mistress like the “meek mouse” they called her.
Camilla is the Princess of Wales, along with all of Charles’ other titles, by way of her marriage to the POW but they wisely chose not to officially bestow the title because of the strong public loyalty to Diana. They gave the rotweiller one of Diana’s other lesser known titles, Duchess of Cornwall.
When Charles married that dog, he agreed that she would not have title of Queen. But it is generally believed that as King he would reneg as usual and do as he pleased and give his beloved rotweiller tampon the title of Queen.
It is believed that Camilla “gets on” with Diana’s sons because she makes their father happy. Camilla has a reputation in the royal household as a real diva, acting more royally entitled than the other royals. Camilla is reported to be jealous of Kate’s popularity and undermines her position making sure she remembers that Kate is behind Camilla in royal seniority. Queen is first, then Camilla, then Kate. There have been numerous incidents when Camilla was interfering in Kate’s relationship with the royal household.
Since Diana’s death, the royal household has been nothing but an deadweight in the UK. The future of House of Windson rests on William and Kate. A Charles/Camilla reign would not be popular and only cause a royal setback waiting for William/Kate.