This is the problem. It is impossible to make anyone like or respect the Duchess of Cornwall.
In the beginning I viewed her from a very negative standpoint. To date I think she has performed her role quite immaculately. She seems to me to be a warm woman, but truthfully, I will never really know. Just as none of us know the true characters which lie behind the people we know as the Windsor Family.
What is much more serious is the perception of my fellow countrymen. I live in the UK where there has been very a slight improvement in the publics' perception of the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall, but far from sufficient to permit them to begin to build a successful monarchy. The history and the damage done over the last couple of decades, could rob us of a royal house which, in its various forms, has survived many centuries. For Britain, for the Commonwealth and for the world at large, this would be a serious loss. In the UK, the mass of the general public, and young people in particular, are not remotely interested in either Charles or Camilla.
Unfortunately, Princes William and Harry and their respective girlfriends are regarded in much the same way as many of the 'celebrities' who, in reality, are total nonenties. Their faces and their lifestyles stare out at us from the same tabloids and rag mags. School children are no longer taught the relevance of royalty in this country - much in the same way that they do not know that milk comes from cows - in fact most city kids have never even seen a cow - and certainly have never seen a lump of coal.
In this technological, multicultural,, secular society, there's not much room for what could be perceived as the anachronism of royalty. This is why the disasters which have befallen the House of Windsor for almost thirty years, could yet have irreversible repercussions. God forbid, but this is the world of UK 2007 as I see it.
tsaria
