No, but nor has the Prince of Wales. If he's saying this type of thing right now, it's because he's been asked to by Her Majesty's Government to say something in a way that allows themselves to officially distance themselves from it. The Prince does have a little more freedom to speak than the Queen, but not this much.
I wonder if the odd but often sane wisdom of the Brits will skip Charles as king.
I am lucky enough to be a friend to the Prince of Wales, and to know him fairly well. Though he's on the left on some environmental issues, overall he's actually a genuine conservative who would fit in quite well here, if he had that sort of freedom. The caricature you get of him in the press is simply yet another example of the mass media trying to make a conservative seem foolish and strange - just as they do to conservatives in America. For some reason, I find difficult to understand at times, Americans who understand this is being done to conservatives in America, buy it when it comes to the Prince.
When it falls to him (and long may that day be delayed) he will be a good King. There's no question of skipping him. I think William has great potential as well, but besides anything else, nobody wants to do that to William - he deserves as long a chance as possible to have a more normal life before he has to take on that burden.
I knew from conversations on cruises on a very-British liner that Charles is highly regarded for his charities. I wish more US citizens knew that we'd have nothing to fear from a King Charles of England.