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Originally posted by The angel of light
reply to post by VoidHawk
Hi,
Well, I have a separate thread since years ago about Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England, and that of course refers to her son Prince Charles.
In that thread, since 2008, I have stated that he probably will never reign over the British throne, or at least never be officially crowned, since his marriage with the divorced Camila Parker Bowles will inabilate him to rule according with the standards of the Church of England, and with the fierce oppostion of the people.
He might be even proclaimed as King, at the death of his mother, but he will never be officially crowned as it happened with his Grand Uncle Edward VIII in 1936, and for similar objections than to him, who marriaged the divorced American lady Wallis Simpson.
Here is that thread,
www.abovetopsecret.com...
Thanks,
The Angel of Lightnessedit on 6/6/2013 by The angel of light because: (no reason given)
But isn't it true that Edward voluntarily and of HIS volition abdicated for the
good of the realm? I can wonder what the sentiment would be of the people
(by the time a succession occurs) over Camilla? They seem to be softening...
Originally posted by The angel of light
reply to post by VoidHawk
Hi,
Well, I have a separate thread since years ago about Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England, and that of course refers to her son Prince Charles.
In that thread, since 2008, I have stated that he probably will never reign over the British throne, or at least never be officially crowned, since his marriage with the divorced Camila Parker Bowles will inabilate him to rule according with the standards of the Church of England
originally posted by: The angel of light
The Peace of God to all that belong to the Light,
Dear Readers,
We were just some weeks ago witnesses of the Abdication of Queen Beatriz of Holland in favor of her Son Alexander, that is part of traditional and protocolary way in which all the Dutch monarchs have transfered their thrones to their successors since two generations ago.
Although the case of Netherlands do not seem to represent necesarily any risk of crisis in a Monarchy, I have perceived clearly during the last weeks another abdication occurring in an European Royal house, and this one unfortunately in the middle of a huge institutional crisis in that country.
I know many of you perhaps are thinking in the possibility that finally Her majesty Queen Elizabeth II decide to transfer the Crown to her long waiting inheritor, Prince Charles, but that is not what my intuition is feeling, this is something that will shake with a terrible momentum the stability of one of the monarchies that once was considered among the most popular of Europe.
King Juan Carlos of Spain will have to decide among two choices in a disparate attempt to save the continuation of the Borbon dinasty in the Iberic Throne.
The very difficult decission will be in between to retain the crown for his successor, Prince Phillipe of Asturias, through the way of a very strategic abdication that will try to replicate the Dutch case, in order to give a second democratic air to the spanish Monarchy or to affront a terrible institutional crisis in which he and his successor will both be forced to renounce definitively to the throne and give pass to a Republic.
The situation has moved a lot during the last months thanks to the scandal in which the son in Law of the King Iñaki Urdangarín was found guilty of a great deviation of public funds in to his pockets and with the incrimination the Princess Christina, although failed, in the illicit.
The King will have to take a very grave and difficult decission, to offer his head in exchange to the continuation of the dinasty in the power, or to accept the veredict of the courts to send his Son in Law to jail, while perhaps his daugher must divorce from him or at least be sent for the rest of her life to be cloistered in a Convent or Abbey.
In the worst moment of the institutional crisis I also have seen crowds of protesters invading the streets of the principal cities of Spain in a mobilization of people never registered in that country in modern times.
I am sincerely sorry to release this post, since I have been for years great admirer of the figure of the King Juan Carlos as a very intelligent stateman that modeled in a very smart and diplomatic way one of the important European Democracies after the fascist dictatorship of 36 years of Francisco Franco.
I think possibly the best strategy he can apply to prevent the fall of the Constitional monarchy in Spain is perhaps a combination of the two alternatives he has to pick, to abdicate as his father Don Juan of Borbon did more than 35 years ago of his rights to the throne in favor to him, starting a similar protocol to the one existing in Holland. and to send to prision , of what ever type corresponds, to whoever might be involved in the royal scandal.
Nevertheless, I also see that there is another potentially fatal scandal for the monarchy coming to Spain and is related with the past of Princess Letizia, wife of the Prince of Asturias, and who might be future Queen.
Of course,as all my premonitory threads in ATS and BTS, this one is open to the free discussion among my readers.
Thanks for your attention,
The Angel of Lightness