Queen backs plan to call son's wife 'Queen Camilla'

Queen Elizabeth II offered her support to have the Duchess of Cornwall become Queen Camilla, using a special Platinum Jubilee message to make a significant decision in shaping the future of the British monarchy.

The monarch expressed a "sincere wish'' that Camilla be known as "Queen Consort" when her eldest son Charles, the Prince of Wales, succeeds her as expected to the throne. The message ties up a loose end that has hung over the House of Windsor since Charles' divorce from the popular Princess Diana.

It took years for many in Britain to forgive Charles, the man whose admitted infidelity brought such pain to "the people's princess" before she died in a Paris car crash in 1997. But the public mood softened after Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles in 2005 and she became the Duchess of Cornwall. The queen also paid tribute to the Duke of Edinburgh, who died last year after decades of serving as her consort, and to the work of her mother.