I suppose there would be a lot to say about any of us, if we had had to make all of our personal mistakes on a spot-lighted world stage, under temptations that most of us can’t even imagine.
His friend has told us that, as he knows Charles today, the Prince is a good man. That’s enough for me. Past is done.
It's his acceptance by his own resentful people that is at issue, and it's why he should publicly apologize for his past behavior in that particular instance that is still rankling so many ordinary Britons. Defending his adultery on the grounds that other kings got to do so (and now he's married to his adulterous mistress!) just throws royal "privilege" in the faces of the working stiffs who are already burdened with the escapades of the elites and the oppressions of the EU. Their nation has been infiltrated out from under them, and their sense of a culturally inherited Christian common decency is all many ethnic Britons have left.