Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.Photo: Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images
Camilla, 74, paid a visit to Roundhill Primary School in Bath in her role as patron of St. John’s Foundation, a local charity. During the outing, she toured classrooms and took part in some activities, including a reading group. To mark the occasion, she also planted a silver birch tree for the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative and unveiled a plaque commemorating the day.
“Before I go, can I say thank you to you all for asking me to come to your lovely school? It’s a real treat to come here and it’s always a pleasure to come back to Bath, which is my home city,” she said.
“One day I hope I shall be back again when I’m even older than I am now and to see that tree looking a bit bigger.”
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall.Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images
Camilla’s outing comes after the Queen used the occasion of her Platinum Jubilee anniversary on Sunday to announce her wish for the royal to be titled Queen Consort when Charles becomes King.
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“And when, in the fullness of time, my son Charles becomes King, I know you will give him and his wife Camilla the same support that you have given me; and it is my sincere wish that, when that time comes, Camilla will be known as Queen Consort as she continues her own loyal service,” she said in a statement.
Until now, Camilla was expected to be titled Princess Consort when Charles ascends the throne, a decision that was announced when the couple married in 2005 amid negative public opinion following the breakdown of Charles’s marriage to Princess Diana.
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There have been frequent question marks over whether most people would accept Camilla as Queen in light of her role in the unhappy marriage of Charles to Diana in the early 1990s.
In her statement, the Queen also referenced her belovedPrince Philip, who died in April last year, noting that she was “blessed that in Prince Philip I had a partner willing to carry out the role of consort and unselfishly make the sacrifices that go with it.”
source: people.com
