State prayers won't include Camilla's name

LONDON (AP) -- Queen Elizabeth II has no plans to change state prayers to include the name of her new daughter-in-law, the Duchess of Cornwall, Buckingham Palace said Sunday.
No reason was given, but a palace spokeswoman denied the decision was a snub to the former Camilla Parker Bowles, who married Prince Charles in April.
In a response to written questions tabled in Parliament by lawmaker Andrew McKinlay last week, the palace said the prayers, spoken at Church of England services around the country and at Parliament, will not be changed to include Charles' wife.
The prayers ask for blessings for the queen, her husband, Prince Philip, and Charles. They also ask God to bless "all the royal family."
The duchess "is included with other members of the royal family," a palace spokeswoman said Sunday, speaking on customary condition of anonymity. She denied it was meant as a slight.
However, Charles' first wife, Diana, Princess of Wales, was mentioned by name in the prayers from the time of her marriage to Charles in 1981 until their divorce in 1996.
Royal biographer Robert Lacey told the Sunday Times newspaper that the queen's decision "has more to do with the queen and her relationship to the church rather than her relationship to Camilla," with whom Charles admitted committing adultery when both were married to other people.
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