He claims he is very conservative, a practicing Christian, “’
I call BS. He is & was an adulterer, and the recent clips of interviews with Diana before her death & with Charles show he is a liar.
Deeply christian doesn’t match with his adulterous activities.
The one sentence I will hear to my grave is Charles telling Diana:
“I refuse to be the ONLY price of Wales that didn’t have a mistress..... “
Also him blaming Diana for his continued connections to Camilla.
He was very jealous of the adoration Diana drew no matter what country or what event they were at. He is a prissy & unhappy person. I don’t trust him to be King.
Amen to that.
Whatever!
I’m not defending Chuckle I’m just pointing out there is another viewpoint. I am willing to give it as much credibility as press reporting. Or are you going to tell me the press is credible, accurate as the day is long? No matter what the true views & character of Chuck actually are the press would put its spin and filter on it. Until we meet the guy we’ll never know, and then we really won’t. People are always surprising!
I really don’t want to get into a discussion of the morality, immorality or amorality of upper class royals. I don’t read supermarket tabloids so I don’t care!
Deeply christian doesn’t match with his adulterous activities.
Well, I'm the person who has made this claim, so let me address it. I have a friend of the Prince of Wales and I do speak with personal knowledge of the man.
Yes, he was an adulterer. He isn't currently in my view - he has no living ex-wife and is married to his current wife - but yes, he was an adulterer. That does not preclude him from being a practicing and devout Christian.
For a start, sometimes Christians sin. None of us are perfect and none of us always live up to the ideals of our faith. HRH sinned when he was committing adultery - no doubt about it. But that was decades ago now. I do not know if the Prince was a devout Christian at that time - while I did know him back then, I did not know him very well - he did attend my school and I did meet him when we were both boys but he was one of the oldest boys in the school and I was one of the youngest and we only exchanged a few sentences. I wound up eventually serving alongside his younger brother, the Duke of York and became his friend, and through was reintroduced to the Prince of Wales but we really just acquaitances until only around ten years ago. It's since then I would call the Prince a friend who I know well. And that is the man I know to be a devout Christian but I don't know when that happened. My feeling is he rediscovered his faith in the late 1990s, possibly only after Diana, Princess of Wales had died. I think for most of his life until then he only paid lipservice to the Church - but as was inside the Church of England, which often only seems to pay lipservice to Christianity itself, that isn't that surprising. I was much the same way - raised in the Church of England, my faith wavered as that Church wavered. I eventually rediscovered my own faith and I left to become Roman Catholic. In the case of HRH, I believe it is fair to say he has embraced the Greek Orthodox faith of his father's family. This is somewhat politically sensitive as he will be Supreme Governor of the Church of England, so he doesn't make a song and dance about it, and he hasn't formally converted, but the fact that he is a regular visitor to a Greek Orthodox monastery is not a secret and does occasionally get into the press.
As for the videos you have seen - that is the version of Diana, Princess of Wales. Why do you assume her version of events is an honest and true one? She was also committing adultery. Repeatedly. And while she may have had some reason for it, depending on who you ask, she also had obvious grudges to deal with. I do not want to speak ill of the dead, but she has been virtually canonised by many, particularly those on the left, and what she was was just a woman. A normal human being. As flawed herself as any other human.
He was very jealous of the adoration Diana drew no matter what country or what event they were at. He is a prissy & unhappy person. I don’t trust him to be King.
Fair statements in my view - although I disagree on the last one. I'm not trying to canonise the Prince either. He's not a perfect man. He's a fairly ordinary man, who by an accident of birth, is expected to take on an extraordinary position. And he has his flaws. Yes, I think he was jealous of Diana. Prissy? Yes, and no. He does have some of those characteristics, but at times, especially in private, he can tend to the opposite. Unhappy? He certainly has been, but I actually feel he's largely happy with his lot in life today.
I will trust him to do his best as King. I do wonder how good his best will be. As I say, he's just an ordinary man. But he has a very strong sense of duty, and I know he intends to do his best.