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KodyKeir posted...

Edward's sin was just marrying a divorcee.

Edward's sin was being a Nazi sympathizer who married an American Nazi sympathizer shortly before a massive global war broke out where England was going to be on the opposite side from Germany. So there was a HUGE motivation on the part of many people in government to use pretty much any pretext to get him the fuck out.

Though just in and of herself, Wallis Simpson was waaay worse than Camilla. She was an American (!) and a commoner (!!), and if you want to talk about living ex-husbands, she had two (!!!). The whole Nazi thing was mostly just the shit cherry on top of the fecal sundae.

Not to mention that the world is a very different place in 2022 than it was in 1936. The Church's stance on divorce in general has radically changed since then, and the exact context of the problem then (that such a marriage could potentially be bigamous) wouldn't actually apply in Camilla's case today.

The main drawback to Charles getting the throne is that a) he's not all that charismatic and people don't like him, and b) people who don't like Camilla mostly don't like her because she's not Diana (and how dare Charles cheat on Diana?! Waaaah). So people have been talking about him stepping aside in favor of William for years... but he doesn't necessarily seem like he's all that overly keen on the idea, and he has nowhere near the impediments standing in his way as Edward did.

If anything, the main question now is whether or not the British want the monarchy to continue at all now that Elizabeth is gone. Plenty of people have been calling for it to be abolished for a while now, and a massive period of discontinuity is going to spur a stronger push in that direction regardless of whether or not Charles or William are on the throne (though the pushback will probably be harder if it's Charles).