Buckingham Palace’s secret plan for Camilla

Buckingham Palace is quietly planning a shift in its approach to Camilla ahead of King Charles’ coronation, it’s been reported.

Buckingham Palace is hoping to quietly drop ‘Consort’ from Camilla’s title before King Charles’ coronation, sources claim.

The title of Queen Consort is given to the wife of a ruling king and was assigned to Camilla when the Queen passed away, The Sun reports.

But ahead of King Charles III’s coronation, aides are planning to cease using ‘Consort’ in his wife’s title, and instead refer to her as Queen Camilla, The Telegraph reports.

In modern history, consorts have been referred to simply as “Queen”, including the Queen Mother who was called Queen Elizabeth when her husband King George VI was on the throne.

Camilla took on the more formal title of Queen Consort as a mark of respect due to some negative opinions around her marriage into the Royal Family.

However, she and Charles are “very relaxed” about her being called Queen Camilla by the public and the press, it is understood.

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The coronation will take place next May. Picture: Andrew Milligan/WPA Pool/Getty Images

Ahead of the coronation, the palace is predicted to gauge the appropriateness of ‘Queen Camilla’ before adopting it officially.

In the meantime, Camilla is expected to still be referred to as the Queen Consort in formal communications, but it is understood the King is hoping his wife to be afforded the same respect that his grandmother was.

The title was decided following an address to the nation earlier this year when Elizabeth II said it was her “sincere wish” that Camilla be known as Queen Consort when she dies.

The Sun has contacted Buckingham Palace for comment.

The King’s wife could be known as Queen Camilla instead of Queen Consort. Picture: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images

Who has been a Queen Consort?

Queen Elizabeth was consort to King George VI until his death in 1952, ruling for 16 years.

The majority of her life was then spent as the Queen Mother to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, until her death in 2002 at the age of 101.

Before that, Queen Mary was consort to her husband, King George V, for 26 years before he died in January 1936, after becoming Queen Consort in 1910.

She held the title of Queen Mother to King George VI after the abdication of Edward VIII in December 1936.

But Queen Charlotte, the wife of King George III, was the longest reigning Queen Consort.

She held her title for 57 years until her death in 1818 and maintained a close friendship with another Queen Consort, Marie Antoinette.

Most notably, Queen Charlotte was an amateur botanist who helped expand Kew Gardens and also helped bring Christmas trees to the UK.

This article originally appeared in The Sun and was reproduced with permission

Originally published as Buckingham Palace’s secret plan for Camilla