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Posted on 04/03/2005 4:54:31 PM PDT by quidnunc
Prince Charles, who weds Camilla Parker Bowles next Friday, first met the woman who is to succeed the late Princess Diana as wife of the heir to the British throne as a result of his love life at Cambridge university. One of his girlfriends at Trinity College was Lucia Santa Cruz, the high-spirited daughter of the Chilean ambassador to London, who told Charles, "I've found exactly the right girl for you."
The prince was instantly smitten by Camilla Shand. Her father was a war hero turned wine merchant who married into the family of one of England's most successful construction firms. For some years I lived not far from the Shands and knew their grand house to be one of the centers of the huntin,' shootin' and fishin' set with whom Prince Charles felt most at home.
Milla, as she was known, had attended Dumbrells, a smart girls' boarding school. She was pretty, blonde and vivacious, a very English-looking girl who "lacked coquetry and did not preen herself," as one of her close friends put it.
They first met at a polo match (where else?). Milla introduced herself with a line that captured the ironic humor that she and Charles enjoy: "My great grandmother [Alice Keppel] was the mistress of your great grandfather [King Edward VII] — so what about it?"
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Charles is not easy to live with. He is an intensely private man who works 12 hours a day, delves deeply into the scriptures of Islam and Buddhism and speaks with passion about alternative medicine (he's for it) and modern architecture (against). None of these interests swirls naturally around Camilla's boudoir. Like the queen, she is neither an intellectual nor a worrier. Yet the prince and his new princess have far more in common than Charles ever shared with Diana. He and Camilla love hiking in the hills. Diana was a city girl. Both of them enjoy riding. Diana hated horses. Charles and Camilla also know how to laugh at and with one another, which he and Diana rarely did.
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(Eldon Griffiths in The Orange County Register, April 3, 2005)
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How in the world could anyone grow up in such circumstance and not be spoiled rotten?
What a charming pick up line....
I will never understand the sport of sniping at this man. Apparently he isn't even permitted to be grumpy now and then.
Probably beacuse it's just so darn easy
It is time for the press to find something better to do. Sniping at Charles is lazy journalism.
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Right; the Prince of Wales may not be the brightest bulb in the room, or the most exciting person to be around, but no one is perfect.
It's time for the press and the people to ease up on this guy; despite having all the appearances of an easy, comfortable, luxurious life, I'm sure there's things in his life that are more wretched and miserable than what the rest of us have to endure.
I used to feel "neutral" or even "slightly negative" about the Prince of Wales; but because of all this titter and tatter about him, all this criticism and condemnation, now I am slowly turning into.....an admirer of his.
Go talk to yer DallyLlama and soak yer bleedin' bloody self in Eastern religion, and disappear to your bloody selfrighteous bleedin' nirvana! Spare us common blokes from your own ass-smellin' antics, ya bloody bleedin' fool!
just my poorly written and humble opinion
FMCDH(BITS)
Actually, it really is; charming, a bit naughty, and factual.
pong
I put it in the category of indelicate, familiar, and forward. But, that's just me.
What she said was clever,saucy, and yes, indelicate; it was supposed to be. And unlike that bubble headed nitwit he was forced to marry, Camilla sparked his attention and has managed to keep it all their adults lives.
I can't work up much sympathy for the prince or the press.
He is a paid pet of the British people to put things in the most base light. If he hates the job so much as to begrudge a 15 minute photo shoot he ought to give it up. Elton John with his job description would be less of a twit... Now I really need a shower!
He is a valiant supporter of the Dalai Lama and the monastic civilisation of Tibet.
Well, Tibet won't defend itself, and Hello Dalai has become the Begger To The World. Nice role model ya got there, Chuckles.
From his spiritual mentor Sir Laurens van der Post he learnt of the intuitive wisdom of the bushmen of the Kalahari.
This is the "wisdom" that, after thousands of years, has created a "civilization" with a GDP consisting almost entirely of pushing dirt around with sticks? Yeah, we should all aspire to such "intuitive wisdom".
The Prince doesn't seem to be a very nice man, but what do we know, we've only heard him utter a few words.
Snide, under his breath insults about the press...well, who can blame him?
But cooing to Camilla over the phone that he wants to be her tampax...YIKES!
He is an intensely private man who works 12 hours a day, delves deeply into the scriptures of Islam and Buddhism
I would like to see him delve deeply into his own cultural faith books like the Bible.
Really, and I think I have an idea what he "works" 12 hours a day
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I get the sense that Charles is finally, after all these years, going to marry the love of his life. Good for him. And her, too. Enough with "duty," they're both getting on in years. Let's leave them alone.