Now that the marriage has actually taken place we need to hear the views of you, the people, on the new situation. How do you feel about the future Queen? None of us have ever been in this position before......

Prince Charles has a job to do, and his wife should support him in that. Camilla should now start to work hard to put behind her the image of someone who just wants to play, and get down to some serious charity work. People might respect that.  A.C.

shame on all of you who say charles is not doing what is best for england. he did that once. he gave england two wonderful heirs and now it is time for him to have some happiness of his own. i admired diana, but she is gone and there is nothing anyone can do about it. camilla will make a great consort because she is in love with charles and not the idea of being queen. i have read so many opinions about "those poor boys". how do you know the boys cannot get along with camilla. they did not look like "poor boys" to me at the wedding. seems like both are accepting the happiness of their father with good grace. leave them alone people... charles has done his duty and will make a fine king. i do believe british law says camilla must be queen consort. so be it. the only law i hope gets changed is the one that gives her son the right to be second in line for the throne. nothing against him, but he has not been groomed for the awesome job of king. william and harry should retain their positions and the government should waste no time in making sure they do.

long live Elizabeth R,. long live King Charles and long live King William

the dark ages should be gone from England

HRH Prince Charles married the beautiful and charming Diana and gave England two wonderful and handsome heirs to the throne. I feel so very sorry the marriage was not more happy, but i also feel that HRH deserves to be so now. He did his duty to England and the Royal Family and now i am very glad he has been allowed to do something strictly for himself. It cannot be easy to be a Royal and do ones duty at all times. Though i do not condone adultery, i do know that true love and feelings cannot be turned on and off like a faucet. i say, Brave to Charles and Camilla for finally having a chance at true happiness and i hope the other members of the Royal Family accept fully, the love the two have for each other and help them be happy. i do not pretend to understand all that is involved when Charles will reign, but if she is to remain Princess consort instead of Queen, i believe she will fulfill that position with dignity and grace. that is what i understood her position would be. personally, i believe she would make a good Queen consort.

God Bless Elizabeth R. long may she reign. i wish the grand Lady was our Queen. I have admired her since i was a small child.

Maggie Devens - Franklin, Texas

I think life is hard.  If they can find happiness, at last, good for them! I am 100% for them.  Stella Gardner. Canada

As a Brit living in the USA 30+ yrs I follow the royal goings on with great interest.

I am so very glad that Prince Charles has married the 'true' love of his life Camilla Parker-Bowles.

Diane was great (at first) but she was a very flawed young woman.....Her family life was absolutely awful and we do tend by live our adult lives as a direct result of our upbring.....she had no idea of what was expected of her as the future Queen of England, and, as time went by she just could not cope with it all.........she was loved and doted upon by the public because she was PRETTY and she gave Charles 2 wonderful sons......but, remember that the male is the deciding factor for the sex of babies....Charles could have had sons with anyone he married whoever she was.

Unfortunately she and Charles were terribly miss matched as human beings......absolutely nothing in common. Being a virgin does not make you a good wife. She hated most of the personal hobbies of Charles....she did not want to do what he did and what was ultimately required of her as a future Queen.......you can't get away with that kind of non functioning in real life, neither common people nor Royals.....and any marriage with those deep seated barriers is going to fall apart. After the divorce, I hate to say, she certainly did not act like a future Queen and in some case did not even act like a lady any more. Even her death, sadly, was brought upon by the life style she chose....rich men and fast cars.......a very sad end to the life of a very confused human being.

Charles has waited long enough for this moment........Camilla is a very nice lady who has probably loved him for all of the 30 + yrs that they have known one another.......she has been so vilified by the press that I think the whole lot of them should give her a front page apology. Nobody deserves the pillaging she has taken over the past many months. Nobody spoke about how her first husband had numerous 'affairs'.....it was OK to 'tar and feather" Camilla but don't say a word about her ex-husband.....who.....in case nobody noticed got remarried very quickly after their divorce.

Diana is dead.......let her go.......let us remember her for the finer part of her life......but let her go. One of the things that really got me mad was the constant comparison even yesterday during the wedding about Camilla versus Diana.....THERE IS NO COMPARISON.......HRH CAMILLA DUCHESS OF CORNWALL IS AN EXCELLENT LADY, A FAR BETTER WOMAN AND WILL MAKE HIM A MUCH BETTER WIFE. I feel that in time when the people get to know her they will love her and she will eventually become Queen of England.

Sometimes when you are far away in another country looking at the much bigger picture of a family in crisis you see faults on all sides.......maybe living in England puts you too close to it all.....one of the english comentators said....."this country is too small and there are too many people and too many cameras following all you do, people are frustrated and Prince Charles has become the 'whipping boy' for all those frustrations" Well guys you will now have to pick another 'whipping boy'.

CONGRATULATIONS.......WELL DONE CHARLES......MAY YOU HAVE MANY YEARS OF DESERVED HAPPINESS AHEAD.

my heartfelt congratulations to charles and camilla. at last charles will be able to enjoy the happiness that has been denied him for far too long.
love myra and jake

I think its wonderful that they have finally married. The Duchess is a dignified, warm and natural woman who abviously loves Her Prince in a way that is very rare and very beautiful, that can only benifit the Prince in his royal duties to have along side himself a partner who talks to him, understands him but wiill not always agree with him. Diana was an exemplory humanitarian and her legacy lives on and is to loved and admired. The Duchess will make a complete success as her role of consort. I believe personally that she a consort not seen since the late Queen Mother and could very well be the making of the mordern monarchy. Having read and studied the royal family, as a hobby for the last 35 years, the marital problems,( which I call growing pains to the 21st century), are part and parcel of the learning curve the royal family had to go through. I wish them all the luckin the world as they have a difficult role to navigate, which none ofus would have an inkling of but should appreciate at least the stress they are under. Richard Hayward-Keen  Australia

I wonder why this marriage is being compared to the one he had with Dianna, every step of the way? Comparisons are odious. I jolly well HOPE its nothing like the one he had, poor chap. This wedding is not about fulfilling his duty, as the last one was, its about marrying the woman he loves. I wonder what its like for them to be seeing the comparisons all the time by their beloved media? No wonder they hate the media so much. And it’s the lower classes that do all the scandalling and comparing, and act all shocked and horrified. Not the normal people who don’t carry around baggage.

I think perhaps its because you live on such a little island, and don’t take responsibility for your own lives – always blaming the government or somebody else for everything. Perhaps if you actually got real lives yourselves, you would not constantly sound such pathetic winge-ing clots.   Shelly [country not disclosed]

I have always been an avid follower of Prince Charles' life. When I learned that he was to marry Camilla I was absolutely delighted. I think he is a very under-rated person with depth of feeling, and he is more aware of the poverty that many suffer, (hence the Princes's Trust).

They may have done wrong in the past, but which of us is not proned to making the wrong decision at times.

I say hurrah to the happy couple, may their union be durable in spite of those who are against it. It is time to leave them alone and allow them to live in peace. surely everyone deserves some happiness.

I was one of many that was glued to the television, observing this momentous occasion. I have prayed that God will allow no outside forces to seperate these remarkable pair. I am reminded of this song; Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come.       Dorrell Trotman

I'm an American married to a former (and divorced) subject of yours.

I can't believe the decendants of Henry VIII are having any problems with this. Isn't "Balmoral" just a misspelling of "Malmoral" (or something) which means "bad morals"? Didn't Sir Thomas More (a Catholic) get beheaded only because he couldn't except Henry VIII as the head of a church? When the C. of E. promotes marriage based on love rather than duty, doesn't that seem hypocritical?

Camilla at the side of Charles makes sense. It's time to get over thirty-five years of "rubbish" as you guys usually put it.  -Andy Pesich

I am from Canada and the wedding happened I guess.I for did not waste my time watching it.The Royals are nothing to most Canadians and i hope Canada will smarten up and say bye bye to the whole crew of so called Royals-WHATEVER ROYALS MEAN...

Good on Camilla, She'll make a better wife than Diana as she always puts Charles first and ios very supportive of him       - MLL

It is my sincere hope that Charles and Camilla get exactly what they deserve. Please..no visits to Canada!!    Barbara

Hi everyone longs for a partner in life and to find one who can put up with the sniping press with their intrusive behaviour is nithing shot of a miracle. I sincerely hope they have a wonderful happy marriage and a long and happy reign when the time comes. I personally think HRH the Duchess will make a very caring and down to earth consort or Queen. I think now is the time to organise atour of the commonwealth together to show themselves and reenforce royal commtment to HM the Queens subjects, I think this has been sadly lacking in both the senior and juionr royals. As to becoming Queen Consort threr is no argument the Duchess will be queen consort because the marriage was sanctioned by church and state. We none of us are perfect and should never appear to be better than some others as some of the general populace seem to think they are. Their Royals Highnesses have a huge workload to do every year and the wonderful work that is achieved is mind boggling. Y ou people out in the street like me should remember that. I dont think I could do , and I certingly think none of you,( especially in britian), could handle the workload that they do. Wishinghtem all the best from an Aussie admirer.        Richard Hayward-Keen

It is wonderful that Charles finally gets to be happy. Diana was much too young for Charles-she wanted to go out and party and Charles was a homebody. Unfortunately people don't realize that Diana cheated on Charles first, and Andrew Parker-Bowles had been living with his "girlfriend",whom he married shortly after the divorce, for quite sometime. People here loved Diana,and still do, but realize that she is gone, and Charles and his family have a right to get on with their lives. As for the rubbish about a divorced woman and a king marrying, go back to Eleanor of Aquitaine,who was married to French King Louis VII for 15 years then divorced(annulled), who then married Henry II of England, and was the mother of King John(among others), who is an ancestor of both Prince Charles and me.         Linda Blevins USA

I think its splendid.  Diana would have almost certainly remarried by now and it was all a big shame and mistake that Charles and Diana married in the first place but they both did it "for the country" - remember the interview with her father who said "Diana is doing this for her country"??   Anyone who knocks Charles and Camilla is being very spiteful.  She will be a lovely Duchess of Cornwall and a wonderful and supportive Queen when he ascends to the throne which he WILL because its the constitution and not individual members of the public's wishes.  The whole world envies our Royal Family (you have only to go to far flung places and see them on TV news programmes) and its high time we appreciated them as they have a difficult and worrying job.   Let's wish them well - William and Harry are thrilled and that should be enough for the British public.

not a fan ofeither one of them. Poor Diana's bulimia was a direct result of the adultery of Charles with Camilla and I am still not convinced that they had nothing to do with Diana's early death. Something smells here.  New Zealand reader.

Having been a US Air Force Dependent wfe who lived in England for 4 years during my ex-husband's tour of duty, I am more fascinated than the average American.

Sorry, but I think it was a disgrace to the Royal Throne for Charles and Diana to divorce in the first place. Nobody will ever take her place. I firmly believe she'd be alive today if Charles weren't so stuffy.

Patty Gammage ,Birmingham, AL ,USA

I'm a proud Australian, born and bred.

I think Diana was "chosen" because she was young, innocent, beautiful and would produce excellent children. And I think the Royal family thought they could manipulate her.

I think it's a great pity that Charles could not marry the woman he always loved in the first place....namely Camilla. I believe he has only had one love in his life and that has been her. Diana, as loved as she was, had many lovers.

I really couldn't care less who was the king or queen of England. And I don't consider them anything to do with us, though I know officially they are. We run our own country and I think it's time we broke from the British Royal family.

Because Camilla isn't young and beautiful she's been put down. Because she couldn't stop loving Charles and he couldn't stop loving her, I think that's a great pity and naturally caused great pain for Diana. Diana was a pawn, used and abused.

Now Charles and Camilla are together I wish them well. If she eventually becomes Queen.....well, it's not going to affect my life, so as I said before......I really don't care.

Anne Eustace....Western Australia

It’s love !!!!!

I think we all should be very happy with Prinz Charles !!! Hey Prinz Charles need a strong,lovely and beautiful woman like Camilla and it’s the big big love!! They’re both old enough to know what the best is and the stupid questions to people in Great Britain if they like Camilla or can she be a great ‘’Queen’’ are terrible-we don’t have that quite of it to judge. Would we be friends of the pair o.k. We are the citizen and we see them only in magazines, tv and from meetings.Camilla would became a great Queen,she would never undertake something which could harm the people or her husband!!!!!!!And that’s the point!!!

Do you know what she does? She done without the title ‘’princess of wales’’ and she will not become Queen because of the shade of Diana!!! HELLO BRITAIN ??? You know that??? And when they spend time at Balmoral or so-you all forgot it’s love which holds more than 37 years!!! And at last the questions about the Queen and that she dosen’t like Camilla or that she dosen’t speak with her at the wedding-she is the QUEEN she must play a roll more than 60 years and from one moment to the other she can’t do so as everything is fine-she knows Camilla a long long time and her idea was it to say to Charles he should marry Camilla!! In the gossip magazines are mostly wrong informations and the storys are often wrong and lied!!!

Good luck for the future,a lot of time to love each other,and strength for the future !!!!!!!

FRANCIS

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