The Prince of Wales Current Events 10: October 2008-October 2009


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Is there a midday service every Sunday?
 
The picture of the prince, with a stick and trying to play Tug of War is priceless. I agree with you Marsel, the pictures so nothing incrimnating. I just love the smirk on Sarkozy's face in the last picture of the article. :lol:
 
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He looks like he's having a great time in Scotland. :)
 
Prince Charles got a first hand account of the problems facing Hastings' fishing fleet at a royal reception.
Paul Joy, chairman of the Hastings' Fishermen's Protection Society and Stephen Potter of Hastings Borough Council, met the prince at an event at Clarence House in London - and made sure they left his royal highness in no doubt about the fishermen's plight.

Hastings fishermen take their plight to Prince Charles - Hastings Observer

Should we Unionists and monarchists be perturbed by the ever-closer relationship between the Royal house of Windsor and the man whose aim in life is to smash their United Kingdom? Not necessarily. At least that's what we're told. As befits his status as Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond – together with his wife, Moira – is accorded an overnight stay every August at Balmoral and has got to know the Queen very well since winning the Scottish elections in May 2007.

Alex Salmond and the Prince of Wales are old chums - Telegraph
 
Has the heir to the British throne gone cuckoo and turned on his class, like a scorpion poisoning itself, or is he shining a bright light into the future?
To mention the Prince of Wales, Charles Windsor, is to stir up many things, especially in progressive, populist, socialist circles. Of course he is the beneficiary of an old, anti-democratic class system. He is a wealthy, large landowner, but hasn't done the sort of work you and I have to do to earn our way, pay our bills. His passport lists his occupation as: Prince of the United Kingdom of Great Britain.


Radical Prince?
 
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I agree with a lot of what the author said about Prince Charles, especially the alternative medicine and farming-- except the author's take on Terrorists. They are terrorists and there is no other word to use except that.
 
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Well a mystery indeed. Maybe he's planning to poach something much bigger from The Queen. :whistling:
 
lumutqueen said:
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Well a mystery indeed. Maybe he's planning to poach something much bigger from The Queen. :whistling:
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Farquharson was actually selected by Sir Michael Peat (whose own contract is up for renewal this month & who has been adding to his high salary by moonlighting as a non-executive director of a private banking company Arbuthnot's sice January 2008) to a post 'Master of the Household' which had never existed before in the Prince's household. Within a year of his appointment (according to the Sunday Times) Farquharson had been caught out touting his close contacts with the Prince to generate further income for himself. So it's probably just as well that he's going.

Why should the Prince have to look to the Queen for his staff? He has perfectly good staff chosen from the open market or the Foreign Office. Besides which one of the previous members of staff 'poached' from or planted by the Queen's Household was none other than the notorious Paul Burrell - about whom the least said the better.
 
:previous: Charles was very close to his Uncle and is more associated with Mountbatten in the eyes of the general public.:flowers:
 
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:previous: Charles was very close to his Uncle and is more associated with Mountbatten in the eyes of the general public.:flowers:
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I know that but he wasn't Mountbatten's nephew and so that is a wrong title.

Frankly, if I was one of his children or grandchildren I would be offended that we weren't asked, or given that they wanted a royal then it should be his actual nephew not a more distant relative.
 
:previous:Mountbatten only has two daughters, neither of whom, quite possibly are as 'famous' as Charles or would want the attention. Patricia has never sought the limelight, especially after the death of one of her sons in the same attack by terrorists, that killed her father!

Would there be the publicity surrounding an unveiling by Patricia or Pamela or any of their children, I very much doubt it.
 
I know Mountbatten had two daughters and no sons - which is why the LPs creating his title allowed for the title to descend through his eldest daughters line.

Maybe there wouldn't be the publicity but that then suggests the publicity isn't about Mountbatten and his personal achievements but because he had connections to the main line of the royal family in which case it should be the main connection - his nephew Philip unveiling it.

If it is being done to honour him as a person then it should be his own descendents and publicity shouldn't be the point but honouring a man for his achievements and his close family should be the ones to do it.
 
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:previous: He was Charles' mentor, that will be the main connection to the direct royal line. As for your view that to honour a man for his achievements, it should be done by his own blood descendants, that is only your opinion, IMO.
 
Skydragon said:
:previous: He was Charles' mentor, that will be the main connection to the direct royal line. As for your view that to honour a man for his achievements, it should be done by his own blood descendants, that is only your opinion, IMO.
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Of course it is my opinion and I stand by the fact that his direct family should be the ones to honour their father and not a great-nephew.

If there was no connection to Charles would Mountbatten still be entitled to a memorial - of course he would - he was a great man in his own right and his family are being slighted by using a distant relative rather than a direct relation, in my opinion.
 
I have a feeling that Dickie would be delighted to have his beloved great-nephew, The Prince of Wales, officially unveil the memorial, and would think it only fitting that Charles be the one to do so. He will be looking on keenly from that other place in which he now resides, wearing his fanciest uniform and all his medals and appropriate decorations, and will puff out his chest and positively beam with pride.
 
IT IS one of Scotland's greatest industrial secrets, a place which laced the boots of millions of workers down the generations before falling by the wayside in the march to modernity.

Now one of the world's oldest machine mills, regarded by historians as "arguably the most important industrial building in Scotland," looks set to be saved for the nation by Prince Charles.

Charles to tie up bootlace mill's future - Scotland on Sunday
 
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