
This reminds me of my uncle Barry. When he got married for the second time, my Nan refused to go to the wedding. The whole thing caused a wave of resentment, which in turn led to the long catalogue of bitter resentments and years of petty squabbles reaching a spectacularly violent climax in one night of unbridled, alcohol fuelled, furniture smashing, fist-fighting frenzy, which has divided the family ever since. Still, it was cracking night, and if there's one thing the whole family is agreed on, it's that whoever gets married next will try to go one better.
I get the impression that the Queen simply doesn't like Camilla, and it probably goes back to an earlier clash, about the nature of which we can only speculate. I suspect it is similar to my Nan's case, in that it was partly a fundamental clash of personalities between two very strong matriarchal women, partly a tension caused by a percieved difference in social class, but mainly about a disagreement over a large quantity of duty-free cigarettes, brought back from France.
It's easy to say that Camilla looks like a horse, but it's really very unfair because it is of course, Princess Anne that looks like a horse. Camilla just looks like a very, very ugly woman. It's easy to get all these weird, in-bred, blue-blood royals mixed up though because the gene pool is absolutely tiny, precisely because they're all related.
Princess Michael (or Princess Heinkel as she's known) has recently remarked that British people take more care over breeding their dogs than they do themselves. Well "Michael", that's because dogs and humans are different species and humans can be left to make up their own mind with whom they wish to have offspring. Unless of course you're royal, in which case you have to have strange, big eared children with one of your close cousins.