I don’t remember anybody saying Charles shouldn’t be King until it was discovered he was cheating on Diana with Camilla. That’s it really. People want to punish him.

I agree with the poster who stated simply that the Monarchy is not a popularity contest. If Charles forfeited his right to be King by being unfaithful then we must go back in history and unmake most of the Kings. Further, we would have to let the Windsors go, because we’d have to go back before the Tudors. Before the Yorks, Lancasters and Plantaganets. Heck, right back to the original sinners, I suppose.

The Monarchy is a succession. One Monarch succeeds the former when the former dies. The order,until very recently, was determined by a combination of order of birth and gender. It is now/will soon be determined by order of birth.

We don’t get a say and royalty is not synonymous with morality – never has been, never will be, never should be. Royalty is also not synonymous with nobility (which may be synonymous, in the literal sense, with morality). If you consider Charles to be ignoble, then I suppose you consider him to be immoral. For the sake of the thesis, let’s just say that he *is* Ignoble and immoral.[1] Well and good. Opinions are fine things and we should all have one or two.

What is NOT a matter of opinion, being a solid fact, is that Charles is the heir to the throne. No matter what you think, he is: Ignoble, immoral, a nutcase or whatever, He does not need to be moral or noble to be Royal. What we want and think a King or Queen *should* be is one thing – what we have the right to insist upon in the process is quite another. We have had good ones and bad ones – and we will have more of the same – it is one of the unfortunate but necessary trade offs to maintain the continuity and integrity of an institution that continues to exist because it does *exactly* that. It follows its own rules.

Were they to allow, even once, a democratic process (popular opinion) to usurp the important traditions the whole thing would collapse within a generation. Charles will be King and William after that and then the first born of William’s children. Let us hope that they are all good Monarchs, but let us not delude ourselves that morality or religious dogma or even political pressure will or should alter the natural process. We count upon that very thing to continually assure us that this thing we choose to stand behind is solid and unmovable,

What next? Wiliam’s child parties too much and shouldn’t be King or Queen?

[1] For the record, I personally think Charles will be a fine King and Camilla will be a fine Queen/Consort. She will never be a Queen Regnant so it does not matter. She will stop being Queen when he stops being King … where’s the harm?