AIBU to think King Charles comes across as a really crap dad?

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c77yykl87yno

I mean really, this is just pathetic. No one is believing that KC couldn’t find a spare bed for his son. AIBU to think that as the parent KC needs to get a grip and grow up instead of just fuelling the drama?

Using Saxe Coburg Gotha as an insult sounds rather xenophobic to me.

Yes, are they really British?? 🤔

If only Charles had watched Meghan’s Netflix oeuvre on how to tie snacks with a bow.

Being as classist about royal staff as they are is something to really be proud of.

You'll see from my previous posts that I'm not a fan of the royals, but the attitude to their employees from some of the posters in this thread is awful. Utterly dismissive of people who, as you rightly point out, are workers on a modest wage. Who'll have their own lives, time off booked, annual leave, medical appointments and childcare arranged around shifts, but apparently they don't deserve any consideration of this because a very wealthy man can't possibly be expected to give them notice of his plans.

This ⬆️. So much disrespect for the staff from Harry and his defenders. No, they can't just change their working patterns because Prince Harry has changed his mind about staying.

My point exactly! But explained in a much superior way.

😀 and the poorly paid staff of ‘dem Germans’ don’t even need a pair of shoes to greet their guests and make them feel comfortable, straight into the kitchen from the armoured car and he would know he was welcomed warmly by his host.

Well theyve been born here for generations but their ancestors were forrin so maybe not. They are very white though, so there's that.

Yesterday Harry was told he couldn't stay at BP. Yet still came to London, there was no time to check if a hotel was safe yet he still came. Security carnt be that great a risk to him as he had zero time to do the checks

Indeed 😊. It obviously bothers some people!

I think KC is a crap dad, but not because of this situation.

This. If my sister wrote a memoir like that, discussing me in the way H discussed his brother, sister in law etc; she’d be dead to me.

Thats a good point.

I don't get why he's so adament that the UK is unsafe when he's made public appearances in Ukraine, where's there's an active war going on. He also made a public appearance in Columbia and he lives in a country with significant proportion of people owning (and using) guns.

No wonder RAVEC say they don't want to give him full security status, because he seems happy enough to take risks everywhere else in the world

Also Nigeria. Also door knocking in London.
Plus, they live in a nation with a lot of gun ownership.
This would suggest that it's less about security, more about status.
He's asserting himself as a royal prince.

And also, presumably that protection (if he still had it) would have been taken away from him at some point in the relatively near future anyway wouldn't it?

Because Anne, Edward and even Andrew (before the scandals) didn't have it, and they were working royals and children of the monarch

But he wasn't a mental health professional. He was a grandfather doing his best to look after his grandsons during a period of intense grief under the glare of the world.

William and Harry walked behind their mother’s coffin for one reason only .
To protect Charles from the predicted abuse from the public .

The children are PR shields and are used as such as and when needed

But he wasn't a mental health professional. He was a grandfather doing his best to look after his grandsons during a period of intense grief under the glare of the world.

And we have to remember that in 1996, mental health wasn't talked about or understood in the way it is now.

The bigger question is how did a man who was the HEAD of a mental health charity not know who to turn to or ask for help when his pregnant wife was in distress? A man who himself, had admitted his brother had urged him to get therapy years earlier...

I disagree @Ukisgaslit

I think the UK public should be ashamed of themselves for the way they insisted on seeing the boys after Diana's death.

I'm a few months younger than Harry, but I distinctly remember the way the public was begging for the royals to show themselves. The UK public has as much to answer for that shit show as the press do and the royals themselves.

I was a few years younger than Diana 31 to her 36 I think...and I have zero recollection of the "public" demanding to see those princes.

I do remember that people were devastated, not only for themselves, but on behalf of those boys. I think they garnered more sympathy than anyone. As they should.

Well, that's a good question. Didn't he have therapists on speed dial?
Very odd behaviour indeed.

Agreed, I was in my twenties and don't recall demands to see the children. The Queen yes, the palace radio silence was widely criticised, but no demands or expectations to see those boys.

Absolutely it wasn't just his sister it was the entire family including young children. And a unnamed baby.
Diana's funeral was bad, his sister & family must have been even worse.

Unfortunately as they were paper headlines I can’t produce them , but there were hundreds of headlines demanding the queen return to London and bring the boys with her!
I particularly remember one that was ridiculous!
“ ma’am , why have you abandoned your people in their hour of need!”
bonkers!!

I don't remember people wanting to see the boys either, but I don't think the Queen would have been happy to leave the boys at Balmoral while she returned to Buckingham Palace