Prince Charles

I can never forgive Charles for brazenly committing adultery with Camilla. Quite frankly, it is humiliating for a child when a parent is openly behaving so badly and everyone is talking about it. I’ve been there and I can tell you it is just awful and I didn’t even have to live through press speculation.
Furthermore, this man will be the head of the Church of England. He is not fit for purpose, it’s like employing George Best to head Alcoholics Anonymous.
I know Diana wasn’t a saint but she was barely an adult and he was a middle aged man who should have known better. In the ordinary walk of life he would have probably been labelled as abusive. I think if it wasn’t for the wonderful work of the Queen, the monarchy would have been dead in the water with his behaviour.

I think the Queen said that she would serve her Country to the end of her life which she would still be doing if she were to have abdicated.
After all she is now handing a lot of the work over to Charles so in a way he is doing the work of the Monach without the title.
I think a lot of people -me included -have mellowed in the way they now feel about Camilla.
I felt very sorry for Prince Charles when a little boy of about two or three years of age.
He was waiting with the Queen Mother at. Railway Station ready to greet the Queen as she stepped off the Royal Train after a visit abroad .
Her first 'duty' was to shake the hand of some personage.
Little Charles was left until later.
Do you remember how Diana rushed to greet her boys after a trip away?
Thank goodness times have changed.

When Charles met his parents with his granny , aunt, dignitaries in public on a London railway station, big difference to Charles and Diana greeting their children on a private yacht

I haven't watched all the programme yet but it was interesting. However I'm sure it was a PR exercise and they (the royals) were all careful to say the right thing.

I have followed Charles' life very interestedly becos SIXTY years ago a "clairvoyant" friend told me that Charles would never be king as it's not in his astrological chart. So I'm still wondering how things will turn out.

The only thing really which made me warm to Prince Charles..
youtu.be/bHQ21Z3Bb1s

We live in a very rural, farming area - it includes a Duchy Estate farm. Farming friends of ours would roar with laughter at the idea of Charles being a farmer . Many farmers locally are struggling / having to diversify etc. Charles sells his produce to Waitrose .

His gnarled arthritic hands are surely the result of many years of hand-writing letters about ‘carbuncle eyesores’ of buildings - and the fact that he is 70!

Neither was Diana kind to other people - what about the wives of the men she had affairs with, and the interview she gave on TV without a thought for her two sons at boarding school bearing the brunt of all the fallout.

NO I did not watch this, nor have I absorbed the onslaught of media lately. Am I the only one who thinks we are being hard-sold Princess Charles/“Queen” Camilla? It’s what he wants, and it’s what he’ll get. Unfortunately the time is drawing near when he will become King and once the royal wheels are set in motion......! let’s just miss a generation I say. Diana may have been a “fragile” person but IMO she was naive and didn’t realise until it was too late to get out. Her two sons are far more appropriate/real-life skilled and hopefully more streetwise than their father ever will be. Step aside King Charles III......

Lancslass1, William and Harry were not settled enough in their own minds to take on a senior royal role full time until about a couple of years ago, let alone be King! And now William is settled and mature, I am sure he'd like some time for his kids to grow up a bit before having to put the country ahead of everything else, like we expect from our monarch

Aepgirl, no she wasn't kind to their wives and children but she isn't going to be a Head of State and Head of Church. Charles may not have gone into the marriage believing things would end up the way they did but knowing what his role was in life, he should have acted accordingly. He didn't and his bad judgement, if not cruel behaviour, surely doesn't make him a good leader or icon for the country.

Step aside King Charles III...

For whom exactly?

William needs a period of being heir apparent before becoming King. He has nowhere near the experience or dedication of his father. So far he's been coasting.

I doubt any future monarch can be described at 'streetwise'. The potential difficulties of life in an urban environment is something they will never have to deal with.

Diana didn’t care about Barry Manikkee’s wife and this was three years into her marriage . She gave that Panorama interview, so doe eyed, ‘ there were three in the marriage’

Must have forgotten Barry Msnikkee, Will Carling, Oliver Hoare, she didn’t mind being in their marriages ,

I thought the programme was interesting. I thought it was lovely to see how close William & Harry are as brothers and I smiled at how they gave him a gentle telling off about rushing about and not spending enough time with his GC.

I was impressed at how Charles can get down on his hunkers and stand up again without using his hands - I can't do that anymore!

He & Camilla spend quite a lot of time in this area, very low key, no fuss and bother, and they contribute much to the local economy and to the well-being of the community.

I'm in favour of a slimmed-down royal family but I prefer a monarch to the idea of a president.

I saw the programme and enjoyed it, I've got a lot of time for Prince Charles I like him. I think he is doing his best now whatever his mistakes in the past, we've all made mistakes in our pasts but ours don't play out in the public eye. He had the plane and train adapted to take environmentally friendly fuel , they were explaining that in the programme. I say cut him some slack nobody's perfect.

Ready meals,
The Queen became Monach at the age of 25
She had a child of 4years of age and one of 2years of age.
When Charles was 65, William was 31 years old.
He tried various things out including I believe a University Course in Farming as well as flying helicopters .
He seemed to enjoy that and I can't remember why he gave that up.
if Charles lives as long as his father it is going to be a long time before William will be King.
What will he be doing for the next 20 years or so?
As for when the Queen returned from a foreign trip and ignored Charles,I still think that was wrong .
Far better had the Queen Mother been able to take him onto the train briefly to see his mother

oldbatty doubted if he was a farmer. In my post I menitoned that he came to Germany to see his second cousin who is an organic farmer. Our area is famous for its pink and black old race pig. one that can't live without roaming around. He was there picking the piglets up, tramping through the mud- he definitely must be a farmer

As to being king. I only know that I who grew up on an estate in Sheffield built for ordinary people with a huge park with tennis courts, swimming pool and bowls and long stretches of green hills and old trees. I actually had a country childhood and heard that it was George V that suggested more decent houses should be built.
I hope Charles can put a few wrongs right.

The queen did not ignore Charles, so unfair to keep repeating this falsehood , so easy to say 66 yesrs later what his grandmother should hsve done in public, and compare it with a totally different situation 40 years later which took place in private

Like our Queen, Charles may earn our respect as our monarch.

More than just another elected politician.

That poor little boy! (In the you tube video) He looked so lost. ?

MargaretX said "I menitoned that he came to Germany to see his second cousin who is an organic farmer. Our area is famous for its pink and black old race pig. one that can't live without roaming around. He was there picking the piglets up, tramping through the mud- he definitely must be a farmer "

So he picked up a few small animals and walked through some mud - something he has probably done numerous times whilst out hunting and dealing with hunting hound puppies.

GoneGirl, he wasn’t use to cameras unlike poor William and Harry , now William protects his children from the press, thank heaven

Does anyone remember "Tampon-gate" when his phone conversation with Camilla was recorded and released, and he said he wished he was a tampon and could always stay inside Camilla....... ?

Not again, he did not say he wished he was a tampon , why do people keep repeating this untruth

I don't know why you say that Annie because the transcript of the phone conversation is available online.