To think publishing the video of King Charles getting annoyed when signing a visitors book today is very unkind?

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He has lost both parents in a short time frame, had a disagreement with his own son and taken on a very stressful job at the height of grief. AIBU to think this should not have been made public? Most people would lose their temper at a time like that in their own lives. Why publish this?

I’ve just watch the ‘every stinking time’ video.
He’s old, grieving and he’s probably at the end of his tether. He’s had a full on week.
The small things are what make everyone crack under pressure. The straw that broke the camel’s back.

Who cares

Ffs, I’m a republican, no question, but I’m also not a cunt.He’s in his 70s and he has just lost his Mother. He hasn’t had a moments rest and has been required to travel up and down the Union since the day his Mother died. He’s a fucking human being for fucks sake, not an automaton. I have sympathy.

I was also shocked by the redundancy notices

They were served thick and fast after his Granny died.

The royal apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

Really the least his aides could do after the last issue was test a pen to make sure it works for signing. Once is a mistake and twice is incompetence.

I agree.

Doesn't matter how much they thinks he's prepared for this losing a parent is huge. Losing one and then having to mourn publicly with no emotion whilst people who've never even met your mum weep and wail and queue for 24 hours to walk past her coffin is expecting beyond human behaviours.

When my own mum died I could barely function for days. And that was expected for a very long time and for weeks before she actually died.

Thank you op for bringing this to my attention. I hadn't known about it. I used to like Charles but I'm slowly changing my mind about him.

I don’t think it’s possible to be well prepared for your mother’s death.

It shows he's human. He us under so much pressure at the moment snd his emotions must be all over the place.

I completely empathise when you think you're holding yourself together just and something small just tips you over the edge.......

At the end of the clip he just wants out of that room, the pressure is too much.

He has always been a bit prickly

His father was too

The Queen would give a look that probably was quite terrifying if on the end of it

Then you are not very compassionate.

I thought it was very telling.

Terrible behaviour for a man of his age whether mourning or not.
I was at the event in Hillsborough today and I wish he'd spent more time talking with the public, many of them were elderly and had been waiting in the street for hours.

I'm sorry but if you have a visitors book and you have a high profile visitor then you damn well give them a non leaky pen.

Serfs cant get anything right. Th poor king had to move the inkpot by 12 cms

He’s his father’s son! 😅
Prince Phillip was described as ‘a defensive, agitated man, who could appear charming but was permanently on the brink of anger’!!

"I bloody hate this"

Well I expect he does. The fact he doesn't even know what date it is should tell anyone with even only one empathy brain cell how much pressure he is under.

That was so clearly someone under pressure who's signed umpteen hundred documents endlessly for days whilst travelling thousands of miles and who really didn't want a leaking pen.

The straw that broke the camels back.

He can just leave, no need to be king is there

Yup. Poor bloke's mum's died and he has to sign loads of stuff, make loads of speeches and be filmed doing it all.

Being king doesn't mean you have to enjoy signing things with shit pens.

Speaking of compassion, do you have any for the staff members whom he behaved this way towards? How do you imagine it felt for them? Charles unfortunately does not seem to have the graciousness of his mother.

The person they are mourning was his MOTHER! That he has been out talking to anyone, let alone being called out to, kissed and all the rest of it is pretty bloody amazing, but for you it's not good enough?!

The redundancy would have been known to all staff way before the Queen's passing, it won't be a shock to them. And really, I can only imagine what some people would have to say about wasting money if the staff were kept on any longer than they need to be. Clarence House could never win this one.

At the end of the day, we never ever saw the Queen behaving in that manner, and she had her fair share of grief.

Hmm… not so sure about that!
I think she could be, let’s say, rather abrasive at times.

No doubt at all he's grieving and tired, but Charles is well known for being like that at any time...prickly, petulant.
And the fact his dad died 2 years ago, and he's fallen out with Harry is surely irrelevant at the moment..
Anyway, what he did in the video, really isn't that bad.