[MadIvan]

My take is that Charles is erratic. Sometimes he does good things like refusing to meet with Jiang Zemin and criticising modern architecture. Other times he is just plain bizarre - preferring Camilla Parker Bowles to Princess Di, for example (In case he's reading this - Charles, I don't fancy yours, mate).

I have a fundamental gut feeling that Charles should not be king, and that it should pass to Wills who will be a good king precisely because he doesn't want the job. This feeling is only reinforced by stories like this.

Regards, Ivan

[OldFriend]

I suspect the Queen agrees with you that Charles should NOT be king.

[I_Love_My_Husband]

IMHO, he's too close to the Arabs and should NOT be King, I'm hoping Prince William has a better head on his shoulder than Prince Charles.

Charles was an adulterer and it was his abandonment of her that set her off into a very bad path.

[CatoRenasci]

Erratic? Stupid is more like it. The current British royal family, the House of Saxe-Coeburg-Gotha -- let's have none of this WWI era 'House of Windsor' obfuscation and eliding the truth -- , is historically known for studpidity and even madness. Germans, the lot of them, and not the best sort of Germans.

I have long known that real English aristocrats -- the Cecils come to mind -- have little use for the Germans on the throne. I must say Charles has always struck me as a particularly inept member of a family known for its lack of deftness. Perhaps its time to start casting about for a replacement. Prince William is half a Spencer, which is a respectable family, but I'm not sure he's worth the candle.

As the descendent of several of the barons who brought John to book at Runnymeade and (illegitimately) of John, I think it's time to put paid the the Germans in London -- send them packing back to Hannover or Gotha or wherever they'll take them in -- and bring back a good Anglo-Norman line. If there are no reasonably close descendents of the Plantagenets around, I'll settle for Lancaster or York, or even the House of Orange. But, no more bloody Germans!

[AnAmericanMother]

Ivan, I agree that it's sort of a "nolo episcopare" situation when it comes to the throne. After all, the Queen's father came into the job sideways as it were, and did a fine job. (He married exceptionally well, too.)

Chuckie is so much like his late and unlamented great-uncle that it's eerie. The erratic behavior, the odd taste in women (I think they both are looking for mothers, not partners, certainly Eddie was), and the strange political tendencies are all there. Plus in Charles's case the Edward VII syndrome of having to wait into late middle age or even his sunset years to get a "real job".

Although Edward VIII was certainly better looking.

[mlmr]

Charles—who reads the Koran every day and often adopts Islamic dress at home—spends long hours discussing the Middle East's problems with Saudi royal family members.

Is this true and well known. Is he an Islamic convert?