Lady Nimue
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Okay, I have had a hard time knowing which thread to post this on because it is far more than being about Charles' politics. It encompasses his marriage to Diana and it's eventual very public breakdown, and the media. It is an historical perspective and I am very interested in what people have to say.
First post will be a preamble. Please bear with me.
Background: I have been very curious about the Charles and Camilla tapes, and the Squidgy Tapes, from the end of the 1980's. They don't get much analysis as an event. The content was certainly analyzed (that was the whole point of them) but the fact that they were recorded, cobbled together from several conversations even, and then released (beggars belief, those two events) has always been a puzzle for me, especially given that they were (one of) the (considerable) pressures on Diana to come up with some defense of herself (and we know where that led).
I am of the unique opinion, recently acquired, that Charles' and Diana's marriage would never have unravelled publicly had there not been some other force(s) at work pressing in on the situation. I am not suggesting conspiracy; I am suggesting something far more subtle being leveled at Charles from certain quarters.
I think Charles and Diana had achieved a compatible aristocratic marriage arrangement by 1989/1990 and would have sailed on (happily) for decades (perhaps), but there was something undoing it all, from the outside. What was that 'something'? Who? Margaret Thatcher? These ideas have been floated before, by me, and others, but there is never an answer. To know how those tapes came to be there would have had to have been an investigation. There never was. Why? That in itself is interesting to me. There was an investigation into the William and Harry phone hacking, why not those tapes which were far more egregious and public.
So I started having conversations with various people tuned into the times back then, more or less. That whole period is very curious for it's 'tabloidism', but particularly how Charles was (and in many ways still is, though it appears to be abating as he nears his time of King-ship) treated by the press. Why, I kept asking my 'in-the-know' pals, why the venom towards Charles? It made no sense. Why pick up the scent of Diana at Charles' expense? The tabloids didn't have to do that. That was a choice. Pure and simple. Why that choice? Something was not adding up.
Well, in the last couple of weeks I have had a conversation with someone who spun me a tale that is written about even by historians. I had never heard of the Freemasonry connection. Has anyone?
This is my preamble. In my next post on this thread I will set before you what I was told and quote from what I was given to read. I hope everyone finds this as engrossing as I do.
First post will be a preamble. Please bear with me.
Background: I have been very curious about the Charles and Camilla tapes, and the Squidgy Tapes, from the end of the 1980's. They don't get much analysis as an event. The content was certainly analyzed (that was the whole point of them) but the fact that they were recorded, cobbled together from several conversations even, and then released (beggars belief, those two events) has always been a puzzle for me, especially given that they were (one of) the (considerable) pressures on Diana to come up with some defense of herself (and we know where that led).
I am of the unique opinion, recently acquired, that Charles' and Diana's marriage would never have unravelled publicly had there not been some other force(s) at work pressing in on the situation. I am not suggesting conspiracy; I am suggesting something far more subtle being leveled at Charles from certain quarters.
I think Charles and Diana had achieved a compatible aristocratic marriage arrangement by 1989/1990 and would have sailed on (happily) for decades (perhaps), but there was something undoing it all, from the outside. What was that 'something'? Who? Margaret Thatcher? These ideas have been floated before, by me, and others, but there is never an answer. To know how those tapes came to be there would have had to have been an investigation. There never was. Why? That in itself is interesting to me. There was an investigation into the William and Harry phone hacking, why not those tapes which were far more egregious and public.
So I started having conversations with various people tuned into the times back then, more or less. That whole period is very curious for it's 'tabloidism', but particularly how Charles was (and in many ways still is, though it appears to be abating as he nears his time of King-ship) treated by the press. Why, I kept asking my 'in-the-know' pals, why the venom towards Charles? It made no sense. Why pick up the scent of Diana at Charles' expense? The tabloids didn't have to do that. That was a choice. Pure and simple. Why that choice? Something was not adding up.
Well, in the last couple of weeks I have had a conversation with someone who spun me a tale that is written about even by historians. I had never heard of the Freemasonry connection. Has anyone?
This is my preamble. In my next post on this thread I will set before you what I was told and quote from what I was given to read. I hope everyone finds this as engrossing as I do.