Camilla may take queen title
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November 21, 2010, Sunday
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PRINCE Charles has reopened a sensitive debate in Britain by suggesting his wife Camilla may take the title of queen when he becomes monarch.
The comments came in an interview with the US television network NBC recorded in August, which was broadcast and web-posted Friday.
Excerpts were aired on British television and received high attention in the week Charles' eldest son Prince William announced his engagement to Kate Middleton.
Camilla legally will be queen if Charles takes the throne, but when the couple married in 2005 officials said she planned to adopt the title Princess Consort rather than the more traditional Queen Consort.
NBC's Brian Williams asked the 62-year-old heir to the throne if his wife Camilla would become "Queen of England, if and when you become the monarch." Charles hesitated as he replied: "That's, well ? We'll see, won't we? That could be."
The difference is purely semantic - the role of consort carries no constitutional power. But polls have suggested there is hostility to Charles' divorced second wife being called Queen Camilla.
The comments came in an interview with the US television network NBC recorded in August, which was broadcast and web-posted Friday.
Excerpts were aired on British television and received high attention in the week Charles' eldest son Prince William announced his engagement to Kate Middleton.
Camilla legally will be queen if Charles takes the throne, but when the couple married in 2005 officials said she planned to adopt the title Princess Consort rather than the more traditional Queen Consort.
NBC's Brian Williams asked the 62-year-old heir to the throne if his wife Camilla would become "Queen of England, if and when you become the monarch." Charles hesitated as he replied: "That's, well ? We'll see, won't we? That could be."
The difference is purely semantic - the role of consort carries no constitutional power. But polls have suggested there is hostility to Charles' divorced second wife being called Queen Camilla.
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