Can't help thinking King Charles is selfish

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Standing back, looking at the Harry situation, I can't help thinking that Charles is the root of all the family toxicity.

He had an affair while married to Diana, which led to their divorce and much unhappiness on her side. After her early death, his children were obviously in a lot of pain. The remote parenting style of the RF probably did little to soften this.
He's managed to marry his affair partner and now he's cutting off one of his sons.
Harry just looks like a really hurt person acting out to me. In most families, they would just be tolerated and forgiven.
I think the RF look very cold.

I think Harry might be the only one of them with a bit of emotional intelligence. But then I liked his book and couldn’t see anything offensive in it 🤷‍♀️What was clear though, was that he loves his dad, even though his dad is emotionally unavailable.

"And nobody ticks the form to say they have used drugs unless they have been convicted. Absolutely no one."

Including me!

Yes, and he's also surrounded by advisers, who could almost certainly have discovered the truth about Savile if only their principal had been prepared to listen

They could even have explained what Peter Ball's conviction actually meant, since Charles claimed not to understand, but no - he clearly thought he knew better

You would be crazy to. Drug use in Britain is very very common. And travelling to the US on holiday is very very common. Everyone lies, and I am sure the US know that.

I was around. Let's not pretend Diana wasn't completely shafted. He was ringing Camilla on the evening before his wedding to Diana. There were "three people" in the marraige as she said in the interview.

Although Harry has behaved like an entitled brat (his obnoxious wife has definitely had an impact on him), I can understand him lashing out, both at Charles and the media (paps especially). The former was cold to his mum in their marraige, while the latter could be very cruel to her (Jenny Bond I remember asking Diana a question that deeply upset her).

I can only think these sort of comments are aimed at those who haven't read Spare in an attempt to convince them

Of course we all take different things from a text, but frankly to suggest it was anything but a bilefest scampers along the margins of the surreal for me

Indeed. It is a book filled with petty point scoring and nasty jibes. I think parts of it are unintentionally funny, but parts are just unkind and unnecessary.

I think you might "lash out" when you're 15, not when you're pushing 40 and have the means and opportunity to get top class therapy and support.

Nah, can't make enough money or do any of her fleeting vanity projects that way. This way she has the titles, but not the grunt work.

What’s genes got to do with anything?
B&E both work jobs. As do Anne’s. They have all worked. Extended royals have to work real jobs because they aren’t working royals

Nah Harry made his bed
No doubt he was traumatised by losing his mother but Charles actually seemed to want to learn from the cold relationship he had with his own parents and be a good Father. They all seemed to adore harry but it was never enough.
After Oprah and his book there's no way back.
Also hes got bloody cancer and is the bloody king he's got enough to be getting on with than investing anymore time or emotions on that one.

In families, as in politics, it is always wiser to keep difficult people inside the tent pissing out than outside the tent pissing in. Of course it was senior members of the family that had the most power in the relationship and chose to use it to estrange H and M rather than hold them closer. That is because senior members the family had the power.

Im personally sorry that Hand M left. As an anglophile and a sometime watcher of the RF I thought they brought glamour, style, and a certain sense of charm to the RF. So I think it was short sighted and foolish to have pushed them out the door. But that was clearly what happened. If I’d been the RF I would have paid a lot of money to keep them onside.

The kind of jobs they do are the kind rich people do. Its jobs with part time and flexible hours that allows a lot of holidays.

I was around too. I was in 6th form when it was announced that they were engaged. There was huge pressure on Charles and had been for some time, to settle down.

There were a lot more than 3 people in the marriage, when you count in Diana's numerous lovers! Diana wasn't completely shafted! She acquired money, power and influence that otherwise she could only have dreamed of.

Was nodding my head along to alot of this. So much truth here.

Wouldn't be excusing Charles as easily though, he treated his newly-wed like garbage.

She only ended up having affairs because KC had no real interest in her.

She realised they were still involved before the wedding but too late to call it off.

That's balderdash! The RF wanted them to stay, but they left because they weren't allowed to do in on their terms.

They were not "pushed out the door". They ran off in a huff, because they weren't allowed to make money as senior royals.

Do you know that for a fact?

Diana was a teenager. Charles was32 years old. It was a disgrace. And I thought so at the time.

Absolutely. It’s a classic Henry James plot - young ingenue played by older couple involved with each other.

There are quite enough members of the RF - the ones we are still paying for, unlike Meghan - who don't have much of a work ethic. Meghan & Harry left years ago, whether people like them is really neither here nor there.

What nonsense.
Have you watched the wedding? She was loving every moment and absolutely thrilled to bits!

Diana didn't undergo a virginity test, she underwent a test to check that she wouldn't have problems conceiving or giving birth. A fertility test, if you will. The media turned it into a virginity test because it sold more papers. You have to remember that this was 1980, when being a 20 year old virgin was considered an extraordinary thing

19 is an adult woman.
Don't infantilise her. Plenty of people in the UK got married at 19! because plenty of people left school at 16!
She wasn't a child.

The media at the time said it was a virginity test. People were wtf, but article after article explained why she had to be a virgin.