[WillowTheWhisp]

I'm pleased to say that the church I am about to toddle off to this morning has no objections to solemnising a marriage between couples where either party has been previously married and divorced. That is not to say that the marriage vows are taken lightly and indeed a couple going through a rough patch would be encouraged to try to work through it and overcome their problems rather than simply run away but having said that it is recognised that there are times when something simply isn't working and that is accepted.

The majority of members are tolerant of others' imperfections but even so we get the odd one who can have a "holier than thou" attitude but that's their personal problem. My late husband used to say of such people that they were too Heavenly minded to be of any Earthly use.

Many of us here are passing judgement on people (Charles, Camilla, Diana) whom we have never met and are never likely to. I have had a couple of letters from Princess Diana but that doesn't give me any right to feel that I knew her. Seeing her TV interview I did feel sorry for her and the impossible situation she found herself in. Nothing will change the fact that she was the mother of William and Harry and that had either of them attained the throne whilst she was still alive she would have been "The Queen Mother" but she is no longer here. Charles is free to marry. His future wife is legally free to marry. It's nobody else's business but theirs. It's probably a pity Charles didn't marry Camilla in the first place.

As for the unwritten constitution, it's a shame we don't have something down on paper, parchment or carved in stone because then there wouldn't be all this kerfuffle about Camilla's right to be queen. If she's married to the king (as Charles will presumably be one day) it would make more sense for her to be queen than otherwise. It's unfortunate that the HRH title was stripped from Diana because despite her divorce from Charles she was still the mother of those princes.

As for physical appearance,. well we're all a mottley bunch anyway aren't we? But then again what one person finds attractive another doesn't. It would be a boring old world otherwise. But just look at all the pointless and often downright stupid levels some people go to with plastic surgery to acheive what they consider to be perfection.