I’ll be controversial but I don’t think his life has been the easiest to be honest. He should have been able to marry who he wished, it would have saved a lot of heartache, and he should have had the balls to say no, but that’s easier said than done I imagine in that environment. To be fair though, someone should have stopped a nineteen year old Diana marrying him when they’d only been on about three dates.
Spending hour whole life, limited in what you can do, ans going through a very unhappy marriage, I think many people can relate. I get he lives a beyond hugely privileged life but I don’t think it’s come without it’s very serious constraints,
My impression now is he is eventually happy and relaxed.
A friend of mine attended a number of closed door social events with him, camilla and both boys, it was via her work, and she said he was a very hands on caring father, the boys clearly very very close to him, and that camilla was fully accepted by them. In fact in their teen years the boys got pissed at one event, as the booze was free flowing, and they had to be ushered out the back, and Charles dealt with it admirably and with humour.
So I don’t think he is quite what he is made out to be, but that for a long time he was unhappy and then quite misjudged.
As for him and camilla, it does seem they stopped seeing each other for a number of years, was it five, before they got back together, but both parties were over the side, the whole marriage was an absolute disaster.
But then they hardly knew each other, they were virtual strangers when they married, and Diana just too young to know what she was getting herself into, although I imagine like most teenagers, she had a rose tinted view on what was to come.