LONDON — Prince Charles has reopened a sensitive debate in Britain by suggesting his wife, Camilla, might take the title of queen when he becomes king.
The comments came in an interview with U.S. network NBC recorded in August and broadcast Friday.
Camilla legally will be queen if Charles takes the throne, but when the couple married in 2005, officials said she planned to adopt the title Princess Consort rather than the more traditional Queen Consort.
NBC’s Brian Williams asked the 62-year-old heir to the throne if Camilla would become “Queen of England, if and when you become the monarch.”
Charles replied: “That’s, well . . . We’ll see, won’t we? That could be.”
The difference is purely semantic. But polls have suggested there is hostility to Charles’ second wife being called Queen Camilla. The Associated Press
