The last one, found at the link below, is titled, With all due respect, Your Highness, if you become King - please put a royal sock in it!”
It may be because his 60th birthday reminds Briton’s that Charles (upper photo) may soon become King. After all, his mother is 82 years of age.
The writer wonders if Prince Charles is grappling with issues beyond his intellectual capabilities.One headline sounded alarm bells: ‘Charles will speak out as king.’
Beneath those words Jonathan Dimbleby, the Prince's friend and biographer, wrote: ‘There are discreet moves afoot to redefine the future role of the sovereign so that it would allow King Charles III to speak out on matters of national and international importance.’
Dimbleby went on to suggest that Charles seeks to fill a role not dissimilar to that of recent Irish or German presidents, politically non-partisan, but still activist.
Hereditary monarchy is a bizarre survival. Most nations disposed of their kings and queens, often amid bloody revolutions, during the great international upheavals of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Queen's huge success - and such her reign has surely been - is based upon the exercise of lifelong, steely self-discipline. Never once has she allowed herself to express an opinion about any aspect of her people's governance or affairs.
Prince Charles, by contrast, is a man of passionate convictions, many of which are well known.
He claims that genetically modified crops threaten the world with ‘the biggest environmental disaster of all time’
He is a keen advocate of alternative medicine, and has used his influence to enable some alternative remedies to become available to patients at public expense
He is proud to call himself old-fashioned. He dresses, thinks, talks and acts in a manner that would have caused his ancestors of a century or so ago to embrace him warmly, in his double-breasted suits, as one of their own.
When he does become King, he likely will not follow the example of the Queen and, for the most part, be “seen, but not heard.”
If he assumes Britain's throne and attempts to use it as a platform from which to propagate his ideas, whether wise or dotty, he will plunge himself and the monarchy into controversy.
The writer ends by saying:
Follow your mother's example, Sir, and you may enjoy a prosperous reign.
Break the mould, however, and only grief will lie ahead for you - and for the British people.
If the throne cannot somehow bypass Charles and go to his son Wills (Prince William - lower photo), many Brits will hope the Queen will live forever!
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