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?

Oh, how absolutely dreadful of him to want to give the country some stability.

He'd be fuming if he came to my house, we have drawers full of biro's but none of them ever work . Every time I grab a biro to write a quick note the buggers have all dried up.

This.
Although rather than get used to it, I'd like to get rid.

I quite agree.

Apart from anything else, he must be exhausted. I certainly wouldn't have wanted to be judged on my behaviour when sleep deprived with young DC, let alone when grieving.

I think the amount he has had to do in the past week is quite heartless, I get that historically the accession had to be publicised but can't imagine there'd be any other claims on the throne in current times. Much better that the RF should be allowed to withdraw during the period of mourning
And undertake all the procedural stuff after the funeral.

Not least because we're all going to be exhausted by it all come Monday at this rate!

I disagree about the redundancy notices.

They will have known their jobs would end once the Queen died. They've known since Thursday that they're effectively unemployed, so why drag it out?

The mourning period is a time of transition. This is the right time to do it.

The press say quite clearly that staff were not expecting redundancies and it was a shock.

I think it just makes him human 🤷‍♀️ He has had a rough few days, he was annoyed, he wasn't unpleasant or rude to anyone, he just expressed his frustration with an inanimate object. I'm sure we all do it! I am forever telling off household items for their behaviour He's still a person, he hasn't become a robot and I think that's quite nice tbh. He doesn't have to be the same as his mother.

Comparing levels of grief between people is dehumanising.

I am a republican for many reasons, and one of them is that I feel the constant scrutiny that members of the royal family are subjected to and the weird world of part demi-god and part soap opera character that they inhabit is unnatural and does nobody, us or them any good. They could all go and be private citizens and still lead very wealthy and privileged lives far away from all this stress and endless appraisal with everything they do, say and wear being picked over

He's a pampered prince who's used to snapping at his minions.

King Charles must be absolutely physically and emotionally shot to pieces, is the reality.

And when national mourning is happening so things are being cancelled all over the shop, why can't Charles wait until national mourning is over before getting rid of a load of staff.
It is incredibly insensitive. It is always one rule for the plebs, another rule for the royals.

Re; the redundancies, I imagine they felt they had to put out a communication to answer questions from staff, who no doubt were wondering what it means for their jobs. Not communicating with them for days and days would have been equally poor. I'm not sure they could win on this one.

YANBU.

He may be a bit of a grouch but who wouldn’t be in his shoes at the moment? He’s just lost his mother, only relatively recently lost his dad and is now travelling the four corners of the nation/making speeches and small talk with everyone and their dog while being filmed and photographed constantly.

He has had barely a second to grieve privately.

I wouldn’t want his job for the world, and anyone who is judging him for throwing a minor wobbly over a leaking pen needs to give their head a wobble. Don’t you all snap sometimes?

All the staff will know the deal with being in the royal household. When things change in the RF, you might be moved into another household, or the job will end. The letter was no doubt meant to acknowledge that people will be worried about what will be happening to their jobs (something that surely they’ve been considering for at the last 10 years as the queen has aged), and reassure them that there will be support provided, and that if there is no longer a job for them, then they will receive an enhanced severance pay.

I don’t see a problem with that. Being ignored would be worse.

He is known for being short fused as was his father. He also isn't used to doing things for himself. All that predates the death of his mother!

He is in the position to cut down all the palaver he and his family have agreed to at vast expense. Next will be the Coronation - and it has to be said, he is in his 70's...........

I was shocked when I read this - what an appalling act. He's not a nice man.

Totally disagree with that. Media was horrible to her at times.

She had tremendous self control and a brilliant sense of humour. There are plenty of videos of things going wrong and she acts with dignity and grace and usually makes a joke out of it.

King Charles in those videos was obviously irritated but to be honest I would too if I’d just spent a night standing by a coffin and then flew to Ireland the next day. His schedule this week is gruelling for his age.

Yeah I agree. And there's like time limits on the consultations etc so i imagine they thought it best to start the process

Or they could have TUPEd them over to the Palace. We keep being told "now is not the time for whatever ". Yet it is the time to sack people who have probably been working really hard to make this ceremonial palava look seamless.

Why post about it?

Eh? What are we allowed to post according to you? Why post about it indeed😂

Do you not know what forums are for?

If anyone reads the article they haven’t been made redundant, just notified their jobs are at risk. It would surely be self apparent anyway.

My DH is into fountain pens, old and new - I've tried a few of his and he's given me a couple of nice ones. They all bloody leak!! So I can understand the 'every time' comment. However you'd think he'd have got used to it by now!

I saw him and Camilla leaving BP not long after the late Queen's coffin arrived - really hope they've gone for an early night in their own bed(?s).

Are you joking? Your post makes out like he has snapped at someone or fired an individual in misplaced anger and grief.

He's systematically making jobless dozens of people who are working very hard and who could have been kept on in a new role.

It's kind of pathetic (actually, deceptive) to pretend it's just grief and upset causing him to lash out. That would be perfectly understandable.

He is both allowed to grieve and has my sympathies, and is wrong to allow this to happen. They are not mutually exclusive things and you cannot excuse the latter due to the former.

‘You signed the 12th earlier’ 😂