I don’t like Charles, either-he is more in the mold of the less admirable royals of the past than he likes to think-just another royal who thinks he IS entitled to do anything he wants to anyone below him in rank-and I’m also convinced he is not playing with a full deck...
People-especially a lot of Brits-have all but canonized Diana-I find it annoying-she was not a totally unknowing victim in the situation though-she played the game, too after awhile-my neighbor pointed out that was endlessly published after the “squidgy” tapes of her phone conversations with some guy or another.
If Phillip, his grandfather, or any other royal had been subjected to the media coverage of today’s world, they wouldn’t have been able to keep mistresses or anything else out of the public eye unless they’d taken a private jet to a cabin in Siberia for their liaisons-and not even then if they’d texted the plan to anyone or left on the GPS of a cell phone...
Phillip may have had a few naughty flings, but no established mistress, and no arrogant claim to entitlement like his son. Phillip’s own mother and father broke up their marriage and he was homeless and penniless for part of his youth. Perhaps out of gratitude, he has stood up and taken his role as a husband with a great deal of grace.
That said, there are dark corners to many aspects of the Windsor-Mountbattens, and I’m not vouching for any of them across the board. Rather, I am hoping that William and Kate can try to uplift the tone and stay loyally and faithfully married. As you have noted, the persecutions by the press are a growing evil. The media are ruining not just Britain and the U.S., but the entire civilized world and the very concept of freedom.