You are a friend of Prince Charles? Wow!!
The reason I assumed he was being passed over was for marrying his mistress after a divorce.
However most of us are a little irked with Prince Charles because of his holier than thou attitude on the Global Warming debacle. It’s so easy to preach to the rest of us when you yourself will feel NOTHING uncomfortable about a “sacrifice”. A family just getting by would be crippled by a $5,000 a year increase in various expenses due the Global Warming scam if Cap and Tax is passed. But Prince Charles will just have to let a few servants go.
Sorry, my sympathy for a hypocrite just isn’t there.
Prince Harry on the other hand seems like he is a strapping young man who is brave and proud asset to the respectable British military. And I believe Prince William be an absolutely magnificent king one day.
Prince Charles was also a horses ass towards President Bush and our war on Islamic terror.
I do not think Charles is necessarily being passes over. I think the analogy of Victoria’s son Edward VII is what Her Majesty is thinking. Like Charles will be advanced, Edward was around 60 when he assumed the throne lived for only another 8 years. I think Her Majesty is already thinking about stepping up William’s “training” a notch since there is a strong possibility that Charles will have a relatively short reign.
First of all, the Prince does not particularly approve of cap and trade. That’s one proposed model - it’s not what he supports. What he advocates is more people voluntarily making choices that limit pollution, which is something he does do himself. And he advocates that the wealthy do more (including people like himself) because most people aren’t free to do so. He’s taken steps to make his own businesses more environmentally friendly proving that you can run a profitable business on that model (the profits go to charities).
He’s no hypocrite on this. He’s spent a considerable amount of time, money, and effort, practicing what he preaches. As I say, I don’t agree with him on the issue of climate change, but he does take it seriously.
I was at the same school when he was sent to Australia at the end of his schooling. We met again through his brother, the Duke of York, when I was serving on exchange to the Royal Navy.
The reason I assumed he was being passed over was for marrying his mistress after a divorce.
It isn't a factor. If Diana, Princess of Wales, was still alive, marrying Camilla (now the Duchess of Cornwall) would be problematic, but as Diana is dead, the Prince of Wales was considered to be a widower, not a divorcee when he remarried. There is no constitutional or religious impediment to Charles becoming King. Even if there was, those rules could be 'massaged' in many cases, but there isn't an issue.