Sally Bedell Smith’s book is, like her other work about the Royal family, a piece of crap full of falsehoods and misinformation, gossip and lies presented for the titillation of people.
It is disturbing to see people taking it seriously. It is very disturbing to me, personally, as a friend of the Prince, to see it being taken seriously by people here at Freerepublic.
His Royal Highness is, on most issues, a conservative who would fit it quite well here, if he had the option of participation (environmentalism is the one great exception to that). He is nothing like the caricature of him presented in the press, who as I’m sure most people here are aware, is dominated by the left wing and who delight in trying to make conservatives look like fools. They’re trying to do it to President Trump right now and most of you can see that’s false. But for some reason, large number of you simply accept their tactics and approach are accurate when it comes to the Prince of Wales. They’re not. These articles, these books, are intended to make him look like a fool so nobody will listen when he speaks out on issues from a conservative perspective. They give publicity to his environmentalism because it’s the only thing he does that they see as praiseworthy. They suppress or even deliberately and manipulate and selectively quote from his other speeches to make it look like he said things he didn’t. And people just swallow it.
It’s disturbing. Very disturbing.
I had dinner once with a Major in the Royal Marines (I believe it was) and he and his wife were frequent guests of Prince Charles and Diana. He also said that the public image and impression was totally false and he was a solid friend.
Shame he couldn’t be the same for his wife.
I remember you. I was hoping you would show up. I don’t much care for the idea of royalty but it seems to be a human archetype. Even here we treat celebs as royalty, and even seem to favor dynasties in politics for some horrible reason. And I always took you seriously and thought you were brave for standing up for your friend. I do the same here for Sean Hannity and have for at least a decade as well.
FReepers are very little different sometimes from the closed minded libs they despise, sucking up media talking points on concepts they don’t even question. I give you a lot of credit re the Prince because I actually used to think the Bushes were fairly good people. We can all be fooled by this insidious media.