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In other words, you get your Charles III Rosey! Guess being called by a name for the entire seventy-three years of his life caused him to change his mind at some point.
Well, much though my sense of perspective has matured since then, I
was glad to see that item on the scrolling news last night (i.e. that particular aspect of the
only news item). I'm also glad that Camilla is, after all, accepting the title of Queen Consort (as the late Queen wished).
Absolutely everybody in the country can, if they want to, make this all about them, especially if they happen to be under seventy (and perhaps even more especially if they've got other major things going on this year, and - I don't know - maybe those
record-smashing temperatures came on their birthday or something!).
She was, of course, the only monarch we have ever known. Through all the comedy and tragedy of life, the Queen was the Queen. Jake and I, after goggling at the BBC News for a few minutes, were moved to remember out loud how our grandmother talked about her thirty years ago and more. An old monarch-listing ruler of Jake's and our kings and queens playing cards and that reference to Prince Charles in EGB... so many things, still in date throughout our lives, now suddenly out of date. It's not unexpected, but it's huge. And to think of calling Prince Charles anything other than Prince Charles...!
Having said all that, it's amazing how quickly one gets used to things.
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