Personally, I'd love to know how King Charles feels about a woman running his country?

[lindysalsagal]

I really have no idea. I don't know the guy, or how he responds to powerful women....At least she's conservative, so, he probably likes that....

Geez-Seems like yesterday, with my grandmother, I watched him marry Diana on the tele. Wish she were queen, now .

[no_hypocrisy]

1. I think after 70 years, he's used to it.

[Zambero]

2. And however reactionary her politics, Maggie T broke UK's glass ceiling long ago

Aside from that, Chuck knows that his role is ceremonial.

[hlthe2b]

5. Not to mention the issues re: he feels most strongly, environment, climate, sustainable farming

and a lot of social issues, including affordable housing, job training, compassionate immigration policies, and quite a few others that sound decisively NON-Conservative.

I'm not so sure QE2 was all that enamored by the majority of conservative PMs either--including Thatcher, though I think she succeeded where Charles may not in terms of remaining decidedly non-political/non-partisan.

[patricia92243]

8. This is the reason I love him. My kind of person.

[Hortensis]

9. Right! Pew says most people average out either liberal or conservative,

defining their political affiliations, while holding a whole goulash of views. A common pattern for some is averaging more liberal on social issues and more conservative on economic issues.

No idea if he's overall more on the liberal or moderate-conservative side, but he clearly holds many positions in common with the broad mainstream of liberals. And a lot of moderate conservatives in UK.

I'd read things about him as a fellow ardent gardener hobbyist in decades past, but otherwise preferred to ignore.

[Effete Snob]

3. What did he think about Margaret Thatcher or Theresa May?

Truss is the third woman to be PM. What’s different about the present one?

All three women who have been PM have been conservative assholes.

[jimfields33]

4. Is there no liberal politicians in office

It’s rather embarrassing that conservatives broke the glass ceiling and kept going. Just liberal men end up prime minister?

[Jose Garcia]

11. The Labour party has never had a woman as leader

[Happy Hoosier]

6. I suspect it doesn't matter much to him.

Charles is a mixed bag. He is progressive on some issues, more conservative on others, where we can glean his positions.

I won't say I admire his personal concduct all the time, but the personal pressures on him were immense, and I hope he learned from it. He never really loved Diana, and probably should not have married her. But William and Harry came from that marriage and both seem to be fine young men.

[lindysalsagal]

10. I don't subscribe to the "Diana was a total victim" ideas: She should have known it was a job

not a fairy tale. Everyone knew about Camilla. I find Camilla laughable, but probably harmless. No accounting for taste that the fool couldn't love someone as wonderful and gorgeous as Diana. But he was looking for a replacement Mommy to go shooting with, and he didn't understand high society at all. Pretty bad prince who couldn't figure out what being famous meant.

It's the old Balmoral/scottish-rain countryside Windsors who wanted to turn a princess into a hip-booted sports-woman.

But Diana could have handled it better. And then the car "accident" was just foolish. The Paris taxi cab drivers I've talked to know everyone's drunk by midnight and so driving so fast through the underground tunnels was a death sentence. She should have just hid out until 3 am when the paparazzi were all gone. Totally bad decision, but who knows how drunk everyone was at that point.

She was letting her anger at the windsors motivate her decisions, including trying to out-run the paparazzi in a car chase in underground Paris. Those tunnels were built to go around the bridges, not race a high speeds. They're really tight and have short turns. It's not like she didn't know this was a game to them, but she was irresponsible to fall for it all.

The world would be better off had she lived, not to mention her sons. So sad we lost her so young.

[Happy Hoosier]

12. Agreed

She was a kid and was dazzled by the prospect of being the Princess of Wales. But I doubt she was blameless in that whole mess. Frankly, I think they both were in a crappy situation.

[Thomas Hurt]

7. Charles is 70 something and has probably attended his mum at thousands of ceremonial events...

and any of various other duties she had. I bet he has it all down pat.