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Should Prince Charles abdicate?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 17 Feb 2005 22:45:37 GMT
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In the UK, Prince Charles, the heir to the throne, has recently announced that
he will marry Camilla Parker-Bowles. This follows his divorce from Princess
Diana and hers from her husband. They were seeing each other before either of
them got married, and Charles was said to be devastated when Camilla married her
husband. Diana said in a TV interview that "there were three of us in this
marriage and it was a bit crowded", Camilla being the third person.
We Brits are asking ourselves "Should he still become king?". Recent surveys
suggest that two-thirds of Brits think he should not.
This raises several questions:
Q1. People from the rest of the world seem to like our Queen, and as such she is
an asset for UK tourism. However, do they really care whether Prince Charles
will succeed her?
Q2. Is it the duty of the monarch (or for that matter President!) to give a
moral lead to the nation, or should they reflect the state of the nation?
Q3. If the answer to Q2 is to give a moral lead, is the breakdown of Prince
Charles' marriage and his unfaithfulness to Diana indicative of his level of
commitment to the country, and should he therefore abdicate on moral grounds?
Q4, If not on moral grounds then should he follow Edward VIII in the 1930s, who
abdicated because the constitution said that he could not otherwise marry Wallis
Simpson, also a divorcee?
Q5. Is the excuse of potentially calling Camilla "Princess Consort" rather than
"Queen" sufficient to permit Charles to take the throne?
Q6. Given Charles' record, should he abdicate on the grounds that he could not
fulfil the role of "Supreme head of the Church of England" (the Anglican church
in the UK), which requires the person to give a moral lead to the nation?
Mark
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Message has 3 Replies:
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| In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Mark Bellis wrote about prospective King Chuck. As one of the Queen's subjects, I probably ought to take this all more seriously but: (...) Yes people (and I) do care some. This is why there are currently record numbers (...) (20 years ago, 17-Feb-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
| | | Re: Should Prince Charles abdicate?
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| (...) We can always use a good laugh. :-) (...) It's amusing that a religion founded on the principle that the King of England can divorce (or behead) his wife gets antsy about Prince Chucky's antics. (see "We can always use a good laugh" above) (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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