The Russian Journalist Who Protested The Ukraine War On Live TV Has Been Rushed To Hospital In France

A Russian journalist who protested against the Ukraine war live on air has been rushed to hospital in France after a suspected poisoning.

Marina Ovsyannikova, 45, called emergency services yesterday and was hospitalised after unexpectedly falling ill as she left her Paris apartment and said she suspected she was poisoned.

Police were examining her apartment and an investigation was underway.

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders, which helped Marina Ovsyannikova flee Russia and settle in France, said its team has been at her side since she sought medical attention.

The group, known also by its French acronym RSF, did not have additional knowledge about what occurred.

Marina Ovsyannikova, who worked at Russian state television Channel One, drew international attention in March 2022 after appearing behind the anchor of an evening news broadcast with a sign that said: ‘Stop the war, don’t believe the propaganda, they are lying to you here.’

She was charged with disparaging the Russian military and fined 30,000 rubles (£253).

She later staged a demonstration near the Kremlin in July 2022 and was detained and put under house arrest before fleeing to France with her daughter.

Earlier this month, a Moscow court sentenced her to eight and a half years in jail in absentia for spreading false information about the Russian army.

It was the latest example of a Russian crackdown on dissent that has intensified since Russia invaded Ukraine almost 20 months ago.

The scale of the crackdown has been unprecedented in post-Soviet Russia.

Russia is a personalist tyranny, controlled by a single person. Vladimir Putin can’t stand protesters and is so tragic that he has to get even with the people who have offended him, and with Putin’s known venomous personality, understandably people will fear the worst.

I guess we’ve come to expect Vladimir Putin to eliminate his fellow Russians because it’s become the new normal now.

The UK Will Send Spy Planes And Ships To Israel

Britain will send surveillance aircraft, two Royal Navy support ships and almost 100 Royal Marines to the eastern Mediterranean from Friday to support Israel and help prevent any sudden escalation of warfare in the Middle East.

Patrol flights of Poseidon P-8 aircraft and other aircraft will begin on Friday, Downing Street announced, tasked partly with monitoring any efforts to transfer weapons from countries such as Iran or Russia to Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Existing UK military units and fighter aircraft, based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus, are also on alert as Israel gears up for an anticipated ground attack on Gaza after last Saturday’s surprise attack by Hamas, which has left more than 1,300 Israeli civilians dead. The death toll in Gaza has climbed above 1,400.

Concern remains high that Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, may aim to open a second front from the north with the support of its ally, Iran.

Earlier on Thursday, Syria said that its airports in Damascus and Aleppo were bombed by the Israeli air force, most likely in an effort to disrupt any supplies of weaponry bound for the group.

Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, said the UK’s intention was to ‘support efforts to ensure regional stability and prevent further escalation’, and to ‘ensure humanitarian aid reaches the thousands of innocent victims of this barbaric attack from Hamas terrorists’.

Earlier this week, a US aircraft carrier, the Gerald R Ford, arrived in the eastern Mediterranean, with a cruiser and four destroyers in support, aimed also at preventing any actor from ‘seeking to escalate the situation or widen this war’.

The UK’s naval task group is quite smaller, consisting of support ships. It’s led by the RFA Lyme Bay, a logistics support vessel, and RFA Argus, the Royal Navy’s emergency medical ship, which has a capacity of 100 beds.

The Ministry of Defence said this was ‘a contingency measure’ to support humanitarian efforts, although it wasn’t immediately spelt out who they would be assisting. Gaza is subject to an Israeli blockade.

Britain already has two warships in the region, HMS Duncan, assigned to NATO, in the eastern Mediterranean, and HMS Lancaster, part of the UK’s permanent naval presence in the Perian Gulf.

Downing Street also said that Rishi Sunak had spoken to Egypt’s present, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, earlier on Thursday as part of an effort, No 10 said, to ‘understand the wider regional picture and underscore the importance of supporting civilians to leave Gaza’.

But here we go, sticking our noses into other people’s conflicts. We’re not the world’s police force.

The UK is spending enough to support Ukraine currently, and now they need something useful to do with all that excess cash floating around. In the meantime, back home, the cost of living crisis and collapse of education and the NHS continues unabated due to disastrous underfunding.

Our government should stop getting us involved in wars that have nothing to do with us and focus on sorting out the chaos they’ve created at home. Not only that, if they get involved and poke their nose in other people’s war, they put the UK at risk of terrorism even more than we have now.

Where on earth do they get all this equipment from? Isn’t all of ours in Ukraine at the moment – imagine if we got invaded.

I’m not sure why the United Kingdom needs to get involved. Don’t the US have huge assets already?

Ulez And Speed Cameras Could Mistakenly Identify 2 Million Drivers A Day For Fines

More than two million motorists a day could wrongly encounter penalties for Ulez or speeding because of simple ways of gaming Automatic Number Plate Recognition cameras or errors with the system.

ANPR cameras are widely used to enforce road traffic regulations and are used by local councils or authorities to monitor vehicles entering or exiting certain areas.

The cameras read the number plate of a vehicle and run the information past the DVLA’s database in Swansea. If a suspected violation has been committed, the footage is then used to prosecute the vehicle’s registered owner.

It’s estimated that such cameras collect data on 75m to 80m cars a day, but that could easily reach 100 million a day by the end of the year, with the rapid deployment of more cameras.

But Professor Fraser Sampson, the outgoing Commissioner for the Retention and Use of Biometric Material, has written to Transport Secretary Mark Harper to warn him that as many as one in 15 motorists may be using anti-ANPR systems.

He said that with the rollout of Ulez and the imposition of further 20mph zones enforced by cameras relying on ANPR information, the use of such measures could increase dramatically, undermining public confidence in the traffic enforcement regime.

Presently, according to Professor Sampson, some 15,400 roads or traffic lanes are covered by the ANPR network.

A newspaper outlet reported that Professor Sampson claimed it was staggeringly simple for criminals or miscreant motorists to deceive the cameras by either cloning someone else’s number plate or by using stealth tape which is available from online retailers.

A cloned number plate could see an innocent driver facing prosecution for speeding, evading toll payments, illegally using bus lanes or ignoring Ulez or other Low Emission Zone regulations.

Professor Sampson said with a three per cent error rate, this could see significant risks of penalty notices being sent out to the wrong people.

According to the letter to the government, Professor Sampson said that taken together, these risks to ANPR threaten not only the efficacy of local policing and traffic enforcement initiatives but the integrity of a national system which has been so successful in supporting policing and law enforcement for decades.

‘With drivers able to monitor their own vehicles outside their homes using live feed images between their phone and doorbell from anywhere on the planet, expecting the police and local authorities to rely on the number plate for critical functions such as traffic management and national security is no longer a quaint anachronism; it is increasingly looking like a strategic risk in itself.’

The thing is, if people don’t fight back against Ulez, the entire country will be covered in cameras and people will have to pay per mile – it’s the Marxist’s objective.

The DVLA has been violating the Data Protection Act because they use your details for other purposes, as well as other companies that do this as well, and guess what, they get paid to give over your data.

Of course, it’s all a way of intimidating you, and it’s about authority. The everyday citizen isn’t criminally inclined, they just don’t have any other choice and it’s all about money and power, pure and simple.

Just remember that all supposedly polluting cars can still drive on the roads as long as you pay, proving it’s all about money and NOT air quality.

If you were to replace your car with a new car say made in China and had it shipped to England, the emissions to make that car would be huge. What about aeroplanes and trains, they also emit harmful fumes – could you envision an electric aeroplane?

Britain Is Set To Be Shocked By Freezing Temperatures And Storms This Winter

Swathes of Britain face a ‘shock’ as they braced today for heavy rain, flooding and thunderstorms after temperatures fell below freezing and a cold snap moved in.

Hefty downpours started affecting London last night, with Victoria Station on the London Underground partly closed today due to flooding. Eastbound Circle and District line trains were not stopping at the station during the morning rush hour.

Tube passenger Martin O’Keefe tweeted this morning: ‘I don’t know how this godforsaken country ever thought it could deliver HS2 when the UK’s current rail infrastructure won’t even allow half the trains on the Circle and District Line to stop at London Victoria due to flooding. Absolutely pathetic.’

Almost three inches of rain could fall in parts of southern England and Wales over today and tomorrow, with the Met Office warning of possible travel delays.

A yellow weather warning for rain was imposed over all of southern England, the West Midlands and the whole of Wales over 9 pm tonight until the end of tomorrow, with up to 1.2in (30mm) in two hours and 2.8in (70mm) over the 27 hour period.

Early this morning, the mercury dipped to -2C (28F) at Katesbridge in Northern Ireland and -1C (30F) at Eskdalemuir in Scotland, where snow on the mountains is likely in the coming days, as well as a widespread overnight frost across the United Kingdom.

This weekend, lows of -3C (27F) in Scotland and Northern Ireland could lead to air frosts while cities of England will drop to 2C (36F), potentially colder in rural locations.

It comes after Britain enjoyed its longest run of consecutive October days above 25C (77F) since 1959, with four recorded between Saturday and Tuesday. Sunday was the UK’s warmest October day in five years as temperatures hit 25.8C (78.4F) in London.

Met Office spokesman Grahame Madge said: ‘On Wednesday night, there may potentially be some frosts and much colder than average conditions, which might be a shock for northern parts of Britain because we’ve had this relatively warm air across most of the UK.

‘There will be an increasing tendency towards cooler conditions, however, in the southern parts of England and Wales, we’ve got the prospect of heavy rain coming in.

‘We’re saying there is a significant rain warning from 9 pm on Thursday through to midnight on Friday, and we can expect 20mm (0.8in) to 30mm (1.2in) in some places in a couple of hours.

‘Even up to 50mm (2in), 60mm (2.4in) or possibly up to 70mm (2.8in) across the high ground of Wales, these are significant amounts.

It’s the weather and it’s autumn and nothing to worry about. People will just get on with their lives.

A cold snap, are you joshing me? In Britain? In October? What next? Bananas growing in the tropics? Shock, horror, it’s autumn, what did they expect, tropical sunshine? But then it’s the power-crazy Met Office. Unless there’s going to be a tornado, why are they giving us these weather alerts? I’m sure I could acquire my own conclusions from a weather map.

For goodness sake, it’s called rain, and a bit of rain never harmed anybody. Unless it’s in Wales, then it could potentially be a problem.

Perhaps if you were in Cambodia where they have heavy downpours and thunderstorms, that might make a difference, but even so, life carries on as normal. The United Kingdom has advanced technology but still constantly fails its people.

Considering what’s happening in the world right now, our weather doesn’t actually matter one bit.

Anti-Semitic Attacks Target British Jews After Hamas Terror Attack

A Kosher restaurant in London has been targeted as part of an antisemitic aggression against Jewish people, following Hamas terror acts in Israel.

The restaurant in Golders Green, north London was vandalised, with the windows smashed.

A nearby bridge was branded with the words ‘Free Palestine’.

Sadiq Khan posted online to blast the antisemitic aggression.

He said that there was no tolerance for hate in our city and that he remained in close contact with the Met Police and that whoever did this would face the full force of the law.

He continued that he would stand with Jewish Londoners, today and always.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism group posted online that they were receiving images of a kosher restaurant that was vandalised overnight in Golders Green.

“Violence against Israel is often used as a pretext for antisemitism in the UK. Jews must be able to live without fear.

“The law must be enforced. If you have information call the police. Those responsible must be prosecuted.”

Scotland Yard said it is not yet treating the incident as a hate crime.

In a statement, the force said: “Police are investigating an incident after a restaurant was damaged in #GoldersGreen #Barnet. We understand the concerns of the local community given current events – however, we have viewed CCTV and at this time the incident is not being treated as a hate crime.”

A spokesman said that police were called at approximately 06.10 hours on Monday, 9 October to reports of a burglary and damage caused to a restaurant in Golders Green Road, NW11.

It was said that a cash register had been robbed.

The spokesman said that officers had attended the scene and examined CCTV at the location. However, there have been no arrests or enquiries into the circumstances, and the crime was ongoing.

Golder’s Green has long been recognised as a home of London’s middle-class Jewish community.

It’s home to the biggest Jewish kosher hub in the United Kingdom.

Pro-Palestinian protesters took over Times Square, just a day after Hamas launched an attack on Israel.

A clash broke out between counter-protesters waving Israeli flags and pro-Palestine protestors.

The protest was attended by more than 1,000 pro-Palestine supporters, who chanted ‘Resistance is justified when people are occupied’.

Demonstrators paraded from Times Square to near both the Israeli consulate and the United Nations headquarters, where the Security Council was to assemble over the weekend’s brutality.

The problem is that other people’s problems get imported and this is what you then get and what a sorry state of affairs when all the police and government do is talk, but they do extremely little about it.

Unfortunately, we’ve allowed too many of these people into our country over the years and they have no respect or tolerance for our values or anyone else’s.

If they’re so worried about Palestine, why don’t they go back and protect their motherland? Oh yes, I forgot, no benefit system in Palestine.

Hamas Beheaded Babies, Shot 40 Children And Burned Families Alive

Babies decapitated, grandparents slaughtered and families ripped apart, that was the full horror of ‘Israel’s 9/11 that has emerged.

Hamas gunmen slaughtered 40 children in one farm settlement alone, their small bodies lying in their rooms perforated with bullets.

As shellshocked survivors told their stories, one grieving grandson, Shmuel Harel, said that they were the new Nazis. This was a holocaust pure and simple.

He said his terrified 90-year-old grandmother’s last moments were being dragged into her living room and shot twice in the head.

A sobbing Israeli woman said she had to listen in helpless horror as her 12-year-old autistic daughter was kidnapped while clinging desperately to her grandmother.

As avenging Israel unleashes hell in military retaliation, shocked survivors gather at refugee hotels a safe distance from the front line, where they weep.

Last night at the Leonardo Plaza Hotel on the Dead Sea, dozens were sat in the lobby and coffee shop, some carrying photographs of loved ones slaughtered or kidnapped.

Galit Dan, 53, told how her daughter Noya, 12, went off for a sleepover with her grandmother Carmela, 80. As the sickening attack unfolded, Noya sent a harrowing voice message to her mother, whispering: ‘Mummy, I’m scared. There are people in the house. Help me.’

Her mother said: ‘These animals came for them. We have heard nothing from them and their bodies have not been found among the dead, so we believe they have been taken. I am living every parent’s nightmare – every parent in the world will feel our pain.’

Hamas terrorists decapitated babies and gunned down entire families in their homes in the Kfar Aza kibbutz, the Israeli military said. Bodies there litter the streets among burnt-out houses, strewn furniture and torched cars.

The Israeli soldiers were going house to house removing the dead raged that innocents were slaughtered ‘not in war, not on the battlefield, but in their beds’.

At nearby Kisufim kibbutz, a settlement of 375 peace-loving souls tending to avocado trees and herds of dairy cows, horror was unleashed at 6.20 a.m. on Saturday as the grenade-lobbing Hamas terrorists swept in.

Kibbutz resident Mr Harel, 33, said: ‘They came to kill, and to abuse, and to desecrate. They came to my grandmother’s house. She was 90.’ Jina Semiaitz, who had lived on the kibbutz since she was a young woman, had heard the shots and gone into her armoured shelter, but did not lock the door, he said.

This is beyond evil. No words will ever make me understand how one human being could do this to another human being.

Only cowards kill people who can’t defend themselves and they’re pitiful excuses for human beings and my heart goes out to those poor souls that have been slaughtered and kidnapped.

How could these vicious monsters commit such things to babies and children? These people have no respect for life!

Evil is well and truly rampant and this is humanity at its lowest. Whoever is in support of this and justifies this is also evil but only monsters justify monsters.

I just can’t imagine having that much hatred in my heart.

This is very hard to understand, but we actually have to do that. We have to read about it, and listen to the news reports and videos just so we know what wickedness there is out there in the world. We should not ignore this because we owe it to the victims not to forget, because if we forget it will happen over and over again.

Do Not Eat!

A man has advised customers to avoid purchasing bananas with small white spots, which could contain insect nests.

It came in response to a Facebook post in October 2022 from a concerned Asda customer, who spotted something unusual on the fruit she bought.

The anonymous shopper posted on the social media site to see if others could advise her on what to do.

The customer wrote in the Family Lockdown Tips & Ideas group: ‘Anybody have any idea what this white spot is on my banana? Brought from Asda yesterday.’

She shared a photograph of the blemished fruit with her message and could have been forgiven for her concern following the reactions of other group members.

Horrifyingly, one user said: ‘Definitely a spider in there.’

A second added: ‘That looks like a spider’s egg sack. Put it in a bag and tie it. I would take it back.’

Another replied: ‘This happened to me last year, Bought some bananas and got a free spider nest with wee tiny spiders coming out of it.’

Heeding the warnings of others, the shopper later provided an update. She said that she could confirm said banana, well the bunch of them put her off for life and that they were in the bin outside.

She said that she might even pour boiling water over them in case they hatch inside the bin and wander into the house because she didn’t like spiders at the best of times. Let alone venomous ones.

They continued: ‘May even burn my bin if I’m honest might be the best option (I am of course joking).’

An Asda spokesman told LADbible: ‘That particular “white spot” looks to be a mealybug nest, they’re completely harmless but as with other insects and they like to make themselves at home in between banana fingers which provide a nice protective habitat for them to live.’

Insects generally come in with fruit and vegetables when they come from countries overseas. They usually crawl into the crates and nest in the fruit, it’s quite common, and that’s why most people wash their fruit and vegetables before consuming them. But no, the first thing people do is run to social media to report it and honestly, who eats banana peel?

Why on earth do people need to post this stuff on the internet?

Back in the day, we used common sense. We didn’t take a picture of it, have it printed or take it to our local newspaper, get it published and then ask the whole world and its wife: ‘What do you think this is?’.

It’s okay if you just want the attention, but I’m sure they could have worked it out for themselves. If I buy something and I think it looks a tad dodgy I just don’t eat it and chuck it in the bin. I guess it could be a bit startling to find a spider’s nest in your fruit, but it’s not unusual.

Why on earth ask the entire world what it was when that person could have just looked it up on Google? There’s always a website on something on Google, but then they wouldn’t have gotten the attention they so desperately craved and created hysteria amongst the other intellectually challenged but thanks for the giggles guys!

I suppose most of the United Kingdom has an IQ of a primary-aged child for a socially engineered reason and why would you pour boiling water on them? Just put them outside for goodness sake and leave them alone. It’s not their fault they’ve been picked up by someone else who hates spiders, they’re still entitled to walk the earth.

‘Church of Healing’ Leader Sentenced To 12 Years In Prison With His Three Sons

A father and his three sons have been convicted by a Miami federal court to up to 12 years in jail for making $1 million by selling toxic bleach as a miracle cure for coronavirus through a fake church.

Mark Grenon, 65, and his sons Jonathan, 37, Joseph, 35 and Jordan, 29 were found guilty of plotting to cheat the US government and FDA by circulating an unapproved and misbranded drug.

Jonathan and Jordon received 12 years jail sentences after being found guilty of two counts of breaking federal court orders requiring them to quit selling the drug, while dad Mark and his other son Joseph Grenon both received five-year terms.

The family, all of Bradenton, Florida, started selling Miracle Mineral Solution (MMS), a chemical solution containing sodium chlorite that, when combined with water and a citric acid activator, turns into chlorine dioxide, a powerful bleach.

The Grenons claimed that ingesting MMS could treat, prevent and cure COVID-19.

The product was sold after the foursome set up a phoney Florida church website which defrauded thousands of people across the US, in 2010. The sales continued throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Federal Drug Administration never approved MMS for treatment of COVID-19, or for any other use and strongly urged customers not to buy or use MMS for any reason.

It explained how ingesting MMS was the same as drinking bleach and could induce harmful side effects, including extreme vomiting, diarrhoea, and life-threatening low blood pressure.

In April 2020, the feds cracked down on the enterprise after the Grenons defied FDA orders to stop distributing the harmful substance.

Their defiance of the court order eventually led to criminal indictments and a raid on their home in Bradenton, south of Tampa Bay, where investigators discovered loaded firearms, almost 10,000 pounds of sodium chlorite powder and thousands of bottles of MMS.

Jonathan and Jordan were arrested in Bradenton, and Joseph fled to Columbia, where he was later deported by the Columbian authorities.

The Grenons decided to represent themselves during their July trial and said nothing throughout the proceedings until the 12-person jury returned their verdict when Joseph told the court that they would be appealing.

Throughout the trial, prosecutors portrayed the Grenons as con men using the Genesis II Church of Health and Healing website as a front to trick customers and the US government.

As I recall, Donald Trump supported this idea, even if inadvertently and if he’d succeeded his followers would have drunk the Kool-Aid.

His COVID talks were insane. Gaslighting the morons and rambling on.

I remember it well, although he didn’t say we should drink it. He took to the White House briefing room and encouraged his top health officials to study the injection of bleach into the human body as a means of fighting COVID.

It was a watershed moment and extremely anal when it came to presidential briefings and it arguably altered the course of political history.

It’s awful that Americans would even believe this rubbish, but people wanted a cure, so they just bought it without even thinking about the consequences. Snake oils have been sold for centuries because people become desperate and are easily led by greedy people wanting to make a buck or to, extremely sad, extremely dangerous.

Sadly we must be the dimest race because we accept what we are told and people will rush out and buy it, drink it or inject it in the hope that it works.

Nasal-Spray Flu Vaccine ‘Shedding Fears’ Among Parents

Parents have been taking their children out of school for a few days during mass vaccination drives rather than have them take a live AstraZeneca nasal vaccine which they claim causes ‘shedding’.

In England, parents have started to receive invites for the annual NHS influenza (flu) vaccination programme for children.

Parents, alternative health activists, PTFA members and doctors told a newspaper outlet that there are some who were planning on taking their children out of school during these mass flu vaccination campaigns.

Some say they’re concerned that children ‘shed’ the virus for a few days after vaccination, leaving them and others exposed to the strains of the virus contained within the vaccine, which they differentiate from viruses encountered in a more natural manner.

Authorities say that the amount of virus shed is normally below the levels needed to pass on infection to others and the virus doesn’t normally survive for long outside the body.

The nasal flu vaccine used in the United Kingdom is an AstraZeneca product called Fluenz Tetra, known as FluMist in the United States, which contains live forms of flu virus to boost the immune system. It’s given as a spray squirted up each nostril.

In 2012, authorities recommended that the UK’s National Vaccination Programme for influenza be extended to include healthy children and adolescents aged two to 17 years and done through general practice and school pilot programmes.

Though 2022 was the first season where all children aged two through to 16 years old were offered the vaccine through a school delivery model, the vaccination is not compulsory.

According to NHS data, around half (51.7 per cent) of all school-aged children from Reception to Year 11 combined took it last year.

In September, Professor Kamila Hawthorne, chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said that having your child vaccinated against flu would help family doctors protect their patients most effectively and ensure that NHS services are available for those who need them most over the coming months.

She also said that getting your child vaccinated not only keeps them safe but all family members, particularly older grandparents and great-grandparents who may be vulnerable to the potentially dangerous complications of flu and the wider population.

However, some parents worry that vaccinated individuals ‘shed’ the virus, for instance, making people sick by being in contact with a recently vaccinated person.

How on earth did humanity ever survive prior to the introduction of flu vaccines I wonder?

Eventually, public health will be a thing of the distant past and it will be used politically, not scientifically. However, it will not be accepted because people aren’t as stupid as some people may think they are.

It seems that the Government is not to be trusted anymore and big pharma rules and looking back on the past three years of the pandemic, why are they amazed that parents are reluctant to get vaccinations?

There have been constant untruths perpetrated by the alphabet crew about the COVID-19 jabs and the overwhelming adverse events and deaths associated with them.

People were getting their jabs and still, they contracted COVID, not just once, but two or three times after being stabbed with a needle.

Informed consent must be upheld and the choice left to the parent, which should be honoured – Last I checked, we were still a Democratic Republic.

It seems that common sense has gone out of the window. Let parents be parents.

The Government said that excluding children from school during the time when the vaccine is being offered was not necessary. That’s okay then, because we all trust the Government these days, don’t we? I mean, they’ve never lied to us, have they?

Why Didn’t Queen Elizabeth Attend Her Son’s Registry Office Wedding To Camilla Parker Bowles?

Children, wider family members and close friends were all present and correct for the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.

Quite right, too. This was not just the formal union of two people very much in love but an occasion to be set down for the historical record.

Amid the snappily tailored crowd filling the Windsor Guildhall in April 2005, two distinguished guests were notably missing.

The Queen and Prince Philip, mother and father of the groom, were nowhere to be seen when the civil ceremony took place.

Where were they? Why would the monarch choose to stay away from the wedding of her own son?

There was no shortage of conjecture. Did she think a mere ‘town hall’ wedding to be beneath her dignity?

Others assumed that Queen Elizabeth disapproved of her son’s relationship.

At one stage the Queen referred to Camilla as ‘that wicked woman’.

Yet the real explanation for why The Queen was missing is much more straightforward than many might think.

As ruler, The Queen was Head of The Church of England. Both Charles and Camilla had been married before and later divorced.

While recognising divorce as a sad fact of life, the Church of England does not encourage it.

The Queen, herself was a devout believer and couldn’t be seen to question the Church’s values in any way.

Weeks before the wedding, a newspaper outlet reported that The Queen had told one of her friends that she wasn’t able to go to the wedding because she didn’t feel that her position permitted it.

There was also family history to consider. Just one generation before Elizabeth’s rule, the monarchy had been hurled into disarray, perhaps even jeopardy, by her uncle Edward VIII’s declaration on marrying the ‘woman he loved’, who was also a divorcee and which went against the strictures of the Church, of which he, too, was head.

Queen Elizabeth wished the married couple well and with Prince Philip, she attended the religious blessing at St George’s Chapel, which followed the civil ceremony at the Guildhall.

The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh then had a wedding bash for the couple. However, The Queen’s relationship with Camilla, now Queen Consort had not always been an uncomplicated one.

The Queen’s reasons are the very basis for why Charles shouldn’t be the head of the Church of England.

Charles is now head of the Church of England, yet he’s an adulterer and he’s set himself as Defender of Faith. The people of the United Kingdom were not asked about this and Charles certainly has a brass neck.

They really are too old to be King and Queen of the United Kingdom, and it should have been passed to William, his son.

Whenever I see Charles and Camilla together, she always looks like a mummy replacement for a boy who looks like a man.

Charles was an adulterer and head of the Church of England but then so was Henry VIII and you can’t get any bigger adulterer than that.

I have no sympathy for Camilla, but the real villain is Charles. If he truly wanted Camilla and there’s no accounting for taste, he should have married her before she got married herself. Instead, he went along with this ridiculous medieval folly of marrying a suitable bride.

Charles has always been weak. If he wanted to marry Camilla, he should have just married her. Of course, he was the heir apparent but what were they going to do, knock him off and replace him with Andrew?

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