{"id":220728,"date":"2026-05-05T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220728\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:19:12","slug":"considering-kings-and-queens-pagosa-daily-post-news-events-video-for-pagosa-springs-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220728\/","title":{"rendered":"Considering Kings and Queens \u2013 Pagosa Daily Post News Events &#038; Video for Pagosa Springs Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>King Charles III and Queen Camilla flew back to the U.K. on Friday, following four action-packed days on the East Coast, including a visit to the White House and several other tourist sites.<\/p>\n<p>A few of my friends have been remarking on the visit, and one of them mentioned the fact that, back when Queen Elizabeth II was the British monarch, her husband was known as \u201cPrince Phillip\u201d. But now that Charles has been crowned King, his wife is being referred to as \u201cQueen Camilla\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Would it be more proper to refer to her a \u201cPrincess Camilla\u201d? Because, just like Prince Phillip, Camilla wasn\u2019t born into a royal family, like a real King or Queen. She married her way into it. So how did she get to be \u201cQueen\u201d, when Phillip was relegated, all those many years, to the somewhat demeaning position of \u201cPrince\u201d, instead of people calling him \u201cKing Phillip\u201d? Doesn\u2019t seem fair.<\/p>\n<p>And while we\u2019re on the subject, I wonder how King Charles feels about being called \u201cKing Charles\u201d? The term \u201cKing\u201d seems to have a negative connotation these days. Here in the States, people have been marching down the street with picket signs that say \u201cNo Kings\u201d. Which is slightly weird, because we don\u2019t actually have any \u201cKings\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Nor do we have any \u201cQueens\u201d. Although we do have people who refer to themselves as \u201cqueens\u201d\u2026 but with a somewhat different meaning.<\/p>\n<p>250 years ago, we did have a King.  King George III.  His wife, of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was referred to as the \u201cQueen consort\u201d rather than merely as \u201cQueen\u201d, maybe because she was German.  When King George began suffering from mental illness in 1804, the Queen consort arranged for her own bedroom and started avoiding the King as much as possible, preferring the company of her 15 children. <\/p>\n<p>In spite of going mad, George III was able to pass the crown on to his descendants, including Charles III. <\/p>\n<p>Some countries that still have Kings are not entirely sure they like the idea, and that includes the U.K.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagosadailypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05-Not-My-King.jpeg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-150277\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05-Not-My-King-720x480.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We note that the signs say, \u201cNot My King\u201d. So they\u2019re obviously admitting that there\u2019s someone who is, in fact, the King\u2026 just maybe he\u2019s not \u201ctheir King\u201d. So presumably he\u2019s someone else\u2019s King. It\u2019s not entirely clear who that \u201csomeone else\u201d might be.<\/p>\n<p>King Charles III is not my King, and Queen Camilla is not my Queen. We don\u2019t have Kings and Queens here in the U.S.A. We only have people who act like Kings and Queens.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05-King-Charles-Camilla-Trump-Melania.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-150248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/05-King-Charles-Camilla-Trump-Melania.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"378\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based on what I saw online about the recent visit by King Charles and Queen Camilla, I think I would actually prefer to have them as my King and Queen, compared to certain other people.<\/p>\n<p>I came across some videos of King Charles, addressing the U.S. Congress and speaking at a White House dinner. Turns out, he has quite a sense of humor, and that\u2019s something incredibly useful to have these days, especially if you speaking the truth. I came across a photo online, showing our President sitting with the King at the White House, and they were both laughing. I have no idea what they were laughing about, but it gave me a warm feeling. Things in Washington have been entirely too serious lately.<\/p>\n<p>During a speech at the White House dinner, King Charles remarked on the close relationship between the U.K. and the U.S., something that \u201cmy Mother\u2019s first Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, understood so well\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, such was the closeness, that Sir Winston, whilst staying here in the White House \u2013 in one of the rooms you showed us upstairs \u2013 emerged naked from the bathtub to discover the door opening as President Roosevelt came in for a chat. With rapier wit, the President cast aside any embarrassment by declaring that, \u2018the Prime Minister has nothing to conceal from the President of the United States\u2019. This warmth came after testing times between our leaders in the early 1940s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe kinship and friendship of many centuries provided great reassurance to my late grandfather King George VI, as it did to my late Mother. It means every bit as much to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, my late Mother met no fewer than 13 serving Presidents \u2013 thankfully, all of them fully clothed!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our President reportedly enjoyed the visit, and the King\u2019s sense of humor, enough to remove certain tariffs. From the President\u2019s social media account:<\/p>\n<p>In Honor of the King and Queen of the United Kingdom, who have just left the White House, soon headed back to their wonderful Country, I will be removing the Tariffs and Restrictions on Whiskey having to do with Scotland\u2019s ability to work with the Commonwealth of Kentucky on Whiskey and Bourbon, two very important Industries within Scotland and Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the lower prices on Whiskey and Bourbon will help promote humor \u2014 even, dare I say, political humor \u2014 of the kind the King was demonstrating during his visit.<\/p>\n<p>Our President was also impressed with Queen Camilla, if we can believe the lip-readers.\u00a0 From an online article:<\/p>\n<p>According to lip reader Jeremy Freeman speaking to the \u2018Mirror\u2019, President Trump expressed admiration for Queen Camilla. Standing outside the White House with both couples present, the President told the King, \u201cIt\u2019s been good. It\u2019s been important. Look at everybody,\u201d before gesturing toward Camilla and remarking, \u201cI don\u2019t know how she does it, she\u2019s amazing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lip reader did not reveal what, exactly, the Queen does that amazes the President. We are left to our imaginations.<\/p>\n<p>All I can say is, if I were King, I would definitely want a Queen who does something amazing. Whatever it is.<\/p>\n<p>   <a href=\"#\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"abfd-photograph-link\">  <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p> Louis Cannon <\/p>\n<p>Underrated writer Louis Cannon grew up in the vast American West, although his ex-wife, given the slightest opportunity, will deny that he ever grew up at all. You can read more stories on his <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/@louiscannon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Substack account.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"King Charles III and Queen Camilla flew back to the U.K. on Friday, following four action-packed days on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-220728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}