It's hard to imagine a world with

[boston bean]

King Charles.

I never knew anything other than The Queen.

He seems so droll.

[chillfactor]

1. Plus he is a cheater

Fooling around on Diana.

[jimfields33]

2. Yep.

If I had a say (I don’t). I’d say skip Charles and go with William. Having Kate will be such an asset for William. I bet overtime, she will be as popular as the queen.

[Kaleva]

4. If I recall correctly, Charles didn't want to marry Diana

He loved Camila.

[Scrivener7]

10. And emotionally abusing the hell out of her when she was a kid of 19, 20, 21.

[former9thward]

12. Do you condemn other leaders for cheating?

[Demovictory9]

3. Long lived family..we'll have decades to get used to him..

[Torchlight]

5. Me too.

It's disconcerting (for me) watching certain individual threads of quiet consistencies in my life become little more than a memory. Same gray skies in my head as when I heard of Fred Rogers' passing.

[Tanuki]

6. King Charles

spaniels are nice, though!






🐕 🐶

[claudette]

7. It's harder

to imagine Camilla sitting where Diana should be.

[meadowlander]

8. He's an environmentalist and keenly interested in urban planning and sustainability.

He's not a "celebrity personality" but he also didn't choose to be in the public spotlight to the extent he is.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/prince-charles-climate-environment/2021/11/01/0f238ab2-39b4-11ec-9662-399cfa75efee_story.html

"In the early years, his harshest critics dismissed the young duke as a kind of New Age mash-up of half-baked ideas.

“At the beginning, everyone thought he was crackers, the mad prince who had these strange ideas. They wrote him off completely,” said Penny Junor, a biographer who has written volumes about Charles and the royal family.

“He’s been saying these things for 50 years, but world has caught up to Charles, hasn’t it? she said. “He’s certainly not a crank now.”

"Charles has called for a revolution in sustainability in all things: urban design, corporate production, organic farming, energy generation. He brings together many people, recommends many solutions, most them now viewed as mainstream."

[Scrivener7]

11. He took hundreds of millions from Occidental Petroleum for his "causes." Seems counterproductive

to me. Not only taking money from oil companies for "green" causes, but being great buddies with Occidental's CEO, Armand Hammer, who was a Russian operative, money launderer and all around bad guy all his life.

[yorkster]

9. He is droll if you mean witty, self-deprecatory, etc.

I hope we can hold off criticism of Charles. He's highly intelligent, wants to slim down the monarchy and may have more ideas along that line that we don't yet know about. I'm not a monarchist, but a little grace period would be nice.