Camilla and the Duchess of Windsor

Sir,
I congratulate you on printing the article by Piers Morgan on the forthcoming royal wedding – it was much needed. But I suggest Mr Morgan replaces all the references to “the nation”, “everyone” and “people’ by a single word – Women.

Most males yawn at the whole subject. But women insist on their fairy-tale princess – Diana was all of that and a role model too. So the ladies feel cheated.

I am old enough to see the similarities with the saga of Edward VIII. Britain was powerful, the monarchy was respected. Glamorous girls were paraded before that Prince of Wales in their thousands. All of womankind waited. Mrs Simpson dealt a shock that was quite indescribable. The fairy princess became ‘that woman’.
Rudyard Kipling said: “the female of the species is more deadly than the male.” But that is no reason why we men should be party to the murder of one who, as Mr Morgan says, is nice, quiet, polite and compatible.

Come on, ladies, Mrs Simpson made on pretty good wife – and Camilla will make an even better one.

John F. Hardford, Larnaca

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