By Anna Von Reitz
The British world has just had a spiritual blow that is, in a way, the inevitable result of the existence of the monarchy itself.
From his earliest moments on Earth, then-Prince Charles was pushed into his role with relentless, non-stop pressure: he was prodded, critiqued, evaluated, propped and primped and "made" into a king, whether he wanted this role or not.
An accident of birth placed him in the position. He was not allowed to be anyone or anything else but the Prince of Wales, heir to the throne, or to be more exact, Chairman of The Firm.
Endless mostly boring servitude was his lot, ruthless discipline, endless duty. He couldn't even choose his own wife or be allowed the freedom of his own emotions. Of all men, he was not allowed to know himself.
We felt sorry for him as a boy and as a man.
Sadly, like so many of us, he was pushed into being a person and sacrificing his own life on the alter of political expedience, and so was Princess Diana.
The business needed a Northumbrian Heir with a flawless claim to the land all the way back to the Dark Ages; enter Lady Diana Spencer. The Crown also needed Heirs, and there, too, she fit the bill and served the Privy Council purpose. Just like breeding dogs, they had their match.
And because she was quietly, determinedly, unrelentingly forced on him, Charles could never be at rest with himself and with his choices. Every time her youth and naïve nature left him cold and alone in his own misery, he resented her freedom and joy and failure to understand the complexity and nastiness of his life.
Diana was looking to Charles for comfort and guidance; he was looking to her for comfort, too, and neither one had it to give in the ways they each needed at the time. It was only over the course of years, years of contemplation in the cold hours of the night, that Charles had time to come to the point of knowing himself, knowing that, after all, he had loved Diana --- long after it was too late to tell her or do anything to protect her.
Comfort in a lonely and isolated and miserable life --- which is not anything to be discounted, but not sufficient to be sure -- absolutely sure -- about how you feel about someone, clouded the issues with Camilla. Camilla had the sophistication and insight and instincts that high-minded Diana lacked. When Charles looked Camilla in the eye, she looked right back, calmly gauging his mood, and delivering comfort on demand. Back rubs and steak pie comfort.
As outside observers the absurdity and the needless violence of the Royal Drama played out with sickeningly predictable results. Even after she gave up, even after she divorced him, when it should have been a no-brainer to let her live --- much as Edward the Eighth did after his Abdication --- Diana had to die.
Diana had to die to clear the way for Charles and Camilla to play out their long-denied relationship; she had to die to save the monarchy from embarrassment; she had to die to put an endpoint on any future drama or controversy. Consider the issues of race and religion and world view that Diana's relationship with Dodi Fayed posed for the hide-bound, elitist, and outraged members of the Inner Circle.
Half-brothers and half-sisters to the King --- who were dark-eyed, brown-skinned Muslims? No matter how rich Fayed was, no matter how much he loved Diana, the cultural, religious, and racial differences were a bridge too far for the Royals and the British Crown.
And now, finally, after decades of speculation, it turns out the Tin Hats were right again, and according to testimony from Princess Sophie, one of the few sterling characters in the drama, and documents and other records uncovered by our own FBI, it appears that Camilla did know about "Paris", and the doom that awaited Diana and Dodi Fayed there.
Whether she was a passive observer or a knowing perpetrator remains to be seen, but there seems little doubt that Camilla knew in advance what end was planned for Diana, former Princess of Wales, and did nothing to stop it.
King Charles maintains that he loved Diana and did nothing to harm her. It remains for us to observe that at the time, at least, he loved Camilla more.
A sad and stagnant air remains in the halls and rooms and salons of Buckingham Palace and Sandringham and Kensington and Balmoral, an echo of the youthful well-meaning Diana, used as a brood mare and cast aside. She had plenty of time to contemplate her own fate and place in the Royal Pageant, time to slowly find her feet, accept Charles' rejection, and build her own strength.
She, at least, had the time and urgent cause to know whether or not she loved Charles and to make her own decisions within the compass of her life. We suspect that, apart from her love for people in general, and her two sons in particular, she was at peace and resigned to a permanent and irrevocable separation from Charles and the life of a British Royal.
She was intent on building her own distinct life and conscience, her own truth, when it was all cut short.
And now, ironically, he, Charles, must do the same. News of his decision to divorce Camilla came today, along with news that Kate Middleton has been elevated and will replace Camilla.
For us, all this is very sad, and a parable in real life, of exactly why we have opposed monarchy as a system of government which is inhumane to those who are doomed to be kings, and flawed by imperfection that only the True God can overcome.
It was a tragedy and cruelty played out in real time in front of us all, that Charles never had the freedom to choose the woman he loved and make his mistakes or prove his wisdom on his own two feet. Instead, a narrative of the "perfect marriage" the "fairytale wedding" and all the internal politics of the day drove him to his marriage bed, where he inevitably chafed and wondered and rebelled --- not because he didn't love Diana --- but because he was forced to marry her "for the good of the monarchy".
We knew this at the time and said it was lunacy and that he should have the freedom and time to choose his wife like any other man, but in the minds of the Monarchists, the clock was ticking. He had to produce an heir and Camilla was already married and "polluted" by another man, unable to "breed true", and so....
It has been proven that when people are abused, ninety percent of them only learn how to be abusers themselves. Ten percent learn "the Other Lesson" that abuse teaches, which is how to turn away from the practices of abuse and treat others better than we have been treated ourselves.
It stands in Charles' favor that when it came time for his sons to choose wives, he didn't stand in their way. Right or wrong for the monarchy, their hearts came first. And that, among all the other things, may be the most lasting legacy of Diana -- the ultimate impact that she had on Charles and the way he treated their sons, when their time came to choose wives.
Granna
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