Prince Charles is being reproached again for having too many views on his future kingdom. It’s amazing the way people who have no objection to a figurehead royal get annoyed any time he gets involved in controversies. I remember a time when foreign billionaires were allowed to make architectural changes to a posh part of London, and Prince Charles used his influence to alter it – it was never clear why the billionaires could do anything, but a future monarch was not even supposed to have an opinion.
Another time he put the cat among the pigeons – well, the British Medical Association – by saying orthodox medicine sometimes left out much of the springs of human wellbeing. He was the patron of an alternative medicine charity run by Dr Patrick Pietroni, who had a GP practice in the basement of Marylebone Church. When Pietroni became a distinguished academic, he threw a party to celebrate, to which a couple of Americans were invited. One of them wondered why Americans were interested in monarchy at all, and the other one said: “It’s the fairy tales – whoever heard of a maiden kissing a frog and it then turning into a handsome senator?”
Some think princes who take sides ought to turn into frogs, but surely doing good PR for valuable causes must be better than being a tyrant, starting wars, or beheading queens like good king Hal?
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