While I agree that Charles can’t help his privileged position, and a diagnosis of cancer is awful whatever your income, I think people are allowed to express their irritation at the unfairness of the situation they find themselves in:
News reports such as on the Beeb just now, sum it up:
~ “oh it must have been hard for Camilla doing her job last week knowing the King’s diagnosis”
as if it isn’t equally hard, if not harder, for ordinary members of the public who have to manage their minimum wage job and parent their dc, alongside chemotherapy?
~ And then an expert comes on and says “yes as with most people a diagnosis is shocking at first but then a treatment plan quickly becomes clear”
well sorry, but for many patients in the NHS, the treatment pathway is neither clear or immediate.
The RF can’t help the BBC’s sycophantic and inane reporting of course but there is a fundamental injustice embedded in uk society between the very rich and the very poor, a gap which is widening, and sorry but the monarchy being at the top of the tree, embodies that privilege. People are allowed to respectfully express their disillusion. Especially when the following report on the BBC highlighted the lack of NHS dentists which is a disgrace and the subject of a Parliamentary investigation.
And who says people aren’t appreciative of the care they receive in the uk, even when it’s flawed and inconsistent, and aren’t aware of the suffering of others in under-developed countries? The two are not mutually exclusive. In my experience, most people are extremely grateful for any NHS care they receive.