Posted on 01/27/2020 11:11:21 AM PST by simpson96
[full article title: Prince Charles flew 16,000 miles in just 11 days using three private jets and one helicopter before proudly posing with Greta Thunberg in Davos]
Prince Charles was last night facing embarrassment after taking a series of private jet flights while lecturing world leaders about climate change.
On a trip to the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, the Prince met activist Greta Thunberg and used an electric Jaguar car to travel to the Swiss resort.
But the MoS can reveal that in the 11 days before his high-profile appearance, Charles took three flights on private jets for official Government business and one on a helicopter.
After his speech last Wednesday, during which he urged world leaders to take ‘bold and imaginative action’ on the environment, he took a fourth jet to Israel for an official trip.
Taking into account an additional five so-called ‘empty-leg’ flights required to collect the Prince, his jet and helicopter travel totalled more than 16,000 miles in less than a fortnight at an estimated cost to the taxpayer of £280,000.
Last night, a Clarence House spokesman said: ‘Global travel is an inescapable part of the Prince’s role as a senior member of the Royal Family representing the UK overseas.
‘When he travels he does so at the request of the British Government. He does not choose the destinations any more than he chooses the means by which the journeys are undertaken.’
According to the Paramount Business Jet calculator, which lets passengers work out their carbon emissions, the air travel will have emitted more than 162 metric tons of carbon
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How do the Brits tolerate this POS?
They could make a buddy movie:
The misadventures of Halftard and Fulltard
> He does not choose the destinations any more than he chooses the means by which the journeys are undertaken. <
Ha, ha. That’s funny stuff. Do they want us to believe that the Queen’s Guards dragged Charles kicking and screaming into those jets?
Charles: To set a good example, I’ll fly commercial. In first class, of course.
Queen’s Guard: See that private plane over there? In you go, mate.
“Qu’ils mangent de la brioche.” (Let them (the peasants) eat brioche.)
The plebes can walk and ride bicycles, while we, the elite (effete?), will do as we please. I have been a monarchist all my life, but after Queen Elizabeth’s passing, not so much.
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re: Scoldilocks
Upper Class Twit all the way! The British monarchy may die with Charles.
“Last night, a Clarence House spokesman said: ‘Global travel is an inescapable part of the Prince’s role as a senior member of the Royal Family representing the UK overseas.
‘When he travels he does so at the request of the British Government. He does not choose the destinations any more than he chooses the means by which the journeys are undertaken.’”
Well, all the rest of us on Earth have important reasons for the frequency and mode of our travel too. So Greta and the Chuckster can kindly stop lecturing us about it.
What a loser, you can choose your friends but the royal family can’t choose their family.
Great should be lecturing the Prince—all I hear is crickets...
Insert any Monty Python “twit” sketch here.
You silly peasants. The rules and regulations are not for the important people like Charles and his family because... they are more important, better than you, and higher in the social classes.
RE: Prince Charles flew 16,000 miles in just 11 days...before proudly posing with Greta Thunberg in Davos
Did Greta the Great take him to task for this?
How DARE YOU!
btt
In addition consider all the greenhouse gases his polo ponies emit every single day.
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