February 11, 2005 06:35PM
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Simon,
> I'm sure things could have been done in a
> different way - but many people look back on their
> own relationships and think the same. Sometimes
> it looks like its perfect - and it turns out to be
> anything but. And at the other extreme - say with
> aranged marriages - they start off to some seeming
> like a trap and end up as deeply loving
> relationships.
I agree; this is what I was saying yesterday (somewhere on this thread)!
> I don't think there are any easy answers. But it
> was just all the criticism of Charles that got me
> a bit annoyed. He wanted to marry a catholic girl
> - but he couldn't because of apparent laws of the
> curch of england. Yet it was because a monarch
> didn't want to follow laws that the church of
> england exists. And in fact they're not really
> laws because the UK doesn't have a constitution
> and its strength lies in the fact its organic.
> Maybe he should have stood up for what he wanted
> more firmly in the first place - and said dam to
> protocol and convention.
The irony is that it was Diana who knocked down some of the stuffy protocol and absurd conventions. Princess Margaret was not allowed to marry Peter Townsend, who was supposedly her true love. IIRC, she ended up divorcing her husband. The Queen mother always blamed her husband's early death on the fact that he was forced into the monarchy, something that would not have happened if the Windsors had simply been allowed to marry. Charles would probably not have been allowed to marry the girl of his choice, and probably (35 year ago) would have been faced an abdication choice. Now, with all the changes and transforming of the monarchy brought about chiefly by Diana, a royal is being allowed to follow his heart for the first time in centuries. I wonder if a part of Charles fully realizes that? He owes Diana a lot of karma IMO.
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