WreathOfLaurels
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Until he took a ride on the matrimony pony that fateful July day in 1981, Prince Charles was the most eligible bachelor in the world With his name being thrown together with a bewildering variety of young women from childhood. This thread is to discuss the 'what-ifs' of Prince Charles marriage prospects, which began in earnest At the tender age of 8, when The Express published an article arguing about the limited pool of potential candidates - mostly the daughters of aristocratic grandees and foreign princess's - and the need to loosen the requirements of a royal bride, which were in the post war era becoming needlessly burdensome and restrictive.
To complicate matters, the question of who would marry Charles and be future Queen also unfortunalty the subject of an unseemly court faction fight between the Queen Mother and Mountbatten pushing forward their own candidates, with the hope that their one would help check the others and either push for greater modernisation (Uncle Dickie) or maintain the good old ways (Cookie).
This ISN'T the old "Diana Vs Camilla" debate, so please only mention them when you need to, but all the other 'what ifs' and possiblites that often get overlooked. For example what if Amanda Knatchbull said yes when Ch popped the question? what if Ch married a foreign princess, say, Anne Marie of Denmark? One of the other women he was linked to? Tricia Nixon? (Ok Tricia is far fetched but still ... an intriguing possibility .....)
To complicate matters, the question of who would marry Charles and be future Queen also unfortunalty the subject of an unseemly court faction fight between the Queen Mother and Mountbatten pushing forward their own candidates, with the hope that their one would help check the others and either push for greater modernisation (Uncle Dickie) or maintain the good old ways (Cookie).
This ISN'T the old "Diana Vs Camilla" debate, so please only mention them when you need to, but all the other 'what ifs' and possiblites that often get overlooked. For example what if Amanda Knatchbull said yes when Ch popped the question? what if Ch married a foreign princess, say, Anne Marie of Denmark? One of the other women he was linked to? Tricia Nixon? (Ok Tricia is far fetched but still ... an intriguing possibility .....)