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It depends on what you mean by diversity. Remember, a century ago, the British Empire covered a quarter of the globe and included a quarter of the world's population. Diversity that includes people from the Commonwealth is generally considered a fairly good thing in the UK - and that includes places like India and Pakistan. Diversity that involves large numbers of people coming in from eastern Europe is a somewhat different matter - and that's where the immigration problems for Britain come from. Most people coming from Commonwealth countries aren't causing problems (with the notable exception of a small number of radical Islamists who are a significant issue).

The Prince believes people have the right to preserve their cultural heritage - and that includes the rights of the English to do so, the Welsh to do so, the Scots to do so, and the Irish to do so. He is very committed to those ideas. In so far, as other people in the UK maintaining their cultural heritage does not come into conflict with that, he supports their right to do so as well. But England must remain English to its core, etc.

And it does. I'm over there a couple of times a year. While there are sections of places like London that have changed dramatically - particularly the East End - large sections are still very English. And once you get out of the cities, England is still very much England. And many of the places in London that are now heavily 'ethnic' have always been that way - in the late 19th Century, for example, the East End had large numbers of Jews and Poles, before that, large numbers of Dutch. Some places are melting pots - but over time, in most cases, those people have melded into the overall population. I think it will happen again.