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Thank you. It’s good to hear a Freeper defending Prince Charles.

Thanks for the advice, darling — as sweeping as it is. Now that you’ve given it, I’m sure my fellow Britons and I will heed your demand and storm the barricades.

Well said.

Well bless your heart. You are welcome honey pot.

I am sure you know him better than most, but he does come across like a bit of a twit, sorry. Just the other day he complimented Mumbai’s slums and found them better organized than most Western towns, as if they should be in our future.

And wanting to be Camilla’s tampon... I know he didn’t say it publicly, but still. Just ugh.

What he did to Diana was dead wrong, as well. There was nothing she did to deserve such treachery. If their marriage was to be a public sham, she should have been in on it from the start too, but apparently she was not.

His sons seem to have turned out fine, though.

I am sure you know him better than most, but he does come across like a bit of a twit, sorry. Just the other day he complimented Mumbai’s slums and found them better organized than most Western towns, as if they should be in our future.

No, actually he didn't. But the media decided to give that impression by taking a very small part of a 330 page book he's written - a book that hasn't been published yet - to give that impression. He was talking about one small positive he saw in Mumbai - the fact that small local areas contain all local services, rather than requiring people to travel great distances to access basic services. He was not praising the slums in general, he was pointing out that if this can be achieved even in absolutely horrible places like that, it should be achieveable in modern planned communities as well. This isn't something he said 'just the other day' either. The book was written months ago - the media just waited until he's in India to play their little games.

Yes, he does come across as a bit of a twit - and to be honest, he is. Very slightly. But the media loves making him out to be much more so - by little games like this one - taking a paragraph out of a large book and presenting it to the world as something he's just said in Mumbai. And people believe it.

And wanting to be Camilla’s tampon... I know he didn’t say it publicly, but still. Just ugh.

Yes, well, he said that one - but that reflects his rather odd sense of humour. Which is the same type of British humour that lead to groups like the Goons and Monty Python, and in more recent years, Little Britain, and the League of Gentlemen. I don't like it much either, but it's common enough in British culture.

What he did to Diana was dead wrong, as well. There was nothing she did to deserve such treachery. If their marriage was to be a public sham, she should have been in on it from the start too, but apparently she was not.

Again, you believe the media presentation. Their marriage was not a sham. The Prince loved his wife at the time he married her, and she loved him. They moved apart after the birth of their sons and both of them ultimately had affairs - the Princess was not an innocent in this and only those very close to both of them - and while I am a friend to the Prince, I am not in quite that category - can guess at the exact order of certain events. But she was the media's darling, and now she's virtually been canonised in death, so they present their version and people believe it. She was a lovely lady who had a lot of love and compassion and did a lot of good, but she wasn't a saint.

Thank you for your careful response. In this case I stand corrected about his Mumbai statements. You are a good friend to spend the time on here correcting our wrong impression of him.

I actually love the British humor and I have a deep love of England because you saved and raised my father, a 7-year-old German Jewish boy sent there on one of the very last Kindertransports, so your country is always going to be a part of my heart. As American as he came to be, he has many British habits and loves, HP Sauce included.

I tried to be as informed as I suppose books and the press would let me be on their marriage, simply because I wanted to understand as best as I could what went wrong, especially after she lost her life. It seemed that Charles was already with Camilla (married or not) before Diana was chosen. I have read that Diana was equally unfaithful, but it seemed that she did not know that her husband was emotionally already taken. I can’t pretend to understand royalty and the arrangement of the marriages, but if they need to be so, I feel it’s only fair for BOTH parties to be in on it.

I admire you for standing up for your friend. You are a good one indeed.