Self pitying, angry hoarder - King Charles

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An article in The Times has a lot of revelations about King Charles, including that he is prone to melancholy and self-pity, indecisive and stubborn, with an explosive temper - he would kick furniture in rage. He had no interest in hearing criticism, and sought out people who agreed with him. One dinner companion realised that he became actively annoyed if challenged. Charles’s homes are cluttered, with one friend calling him an outright hoarder. And unlike the Queen spends lots of money on himself.

Many agree that what Camilla, excels at is managing him: cheering him up when he’s glum, indulging him when he needs it, geeing him up when he doesn’t and knowing how and when to persuade him of a particular course of action when his staff have tried and failed. “Leave it with me,” she says to courtiers, with one press secretary describing her as “the final court of appeal”.

“If the Queen had taken half as much trouble about the rearing of her children as she did about the breeding of her horses,” a private secretary remarked drily to Robert Lacey, “the royal family wouldn’t be in such an emotional mess.”"

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/king-charles-coronation-camilla-william-harry-uk-hilary-rose-2r0k2g53t

He was a cheating twat who married another cheating twat when his young wife died.

@SlouchingTowardsBethlehemAgain his young wife was also a cheat but yes Charles was spineless

He should never had married Diana - he didn’t love her and they had nothing in common. She was 19! Appalling

All the research says it is nature and nurture. So someone might be born with a tendency towards anger, but good parenting can teach them how to manage that temper.

I know I’m missing the point spectacularly, but he doesn’t look like someone that has a live-in yoga teacher…

It really was a complete and utter balls up.

I remember at the time when the pressure was on for Charles to get married, the papers went on and on about it. I remember thinking oh do shut up, let the bloke find the right person. (I say this as a person who married later in life and my parents put the pressure on lol)
I think he is a bit ummm... weak at times, and just would not wait for anyone more suitable.

Imagine Charles on one of those TV programmes for Hoarders…. They’d be wrestling broken fountain pens out of his hands.

Betcha it's £32,000 a year for Sarah... she sounds like she'd do all that meditating. I can't imagine Andrew meditating lol

The late Queen’s father was also prone, and once destroyed a rose bush in a fit of rage. Shocking 😂😂

My first thought too! 😝 Bet there's no 'yoga teacher '

I wasn’t being entirely serious! 😉

I wouldn’t blame her. Dealing with a death in any family is tough but I can’t imagine how she found the energy to carry out all those commitments when the Queen died.

No no! I was replying to derxa who was talking about her Dad. Not saying PA or Charles had a string of racehorses yikes!

Oops - sorry Roussette, my mistake

No probs! I was just worried someone would read something into what I said!

come on England

Yes, he needs to get Stacey Solomon round. She'd soon sort out all his old junk.

Come on England 😆 Offers hanky to wipe up your tears!

I'm gutted sniff sniff, thanks for hanky 😥

Especially because of the new captain who comes from the worst area in Bristol imaginable, and has achieved so much. Poor guy boohooo

Sorry don't mean to derail

@Gilmorehill Dealing with bereavement is always very tough. But lots of ordinary people get no more than the day of the funeral off work for in laws. Its not right I think, but lots of people just have to get back to full time work.

The trouble is that Charles is not as bright as he thinks he is and he surrounds himself with yes men.
none of them are very bright. Perhaps because their parent were third cousins?

Charles seems the brightest of the bunch so this perhaps makes him think he is brighter than he is? The bar is pretty low.

Most people haven't had to do their mourning with the eyes of the world's press following every move, randoms commenting on every aspect of your demeanour and dress, interspersed with your spouse becoming monarch. I think, after a week of public ceremonial duties, home, privacy, peace and nice cup of tea in front of the fire is the least she deserved.

@Coxspurplepippin Bereavement is hard for anyone. But Elizabeth was a very elderly woman and it was expected.
I will save my sympathy for people who have to go back to full time work after the funeral, sometimes to very stressful jobs, and then struggle to pay for the funeral. About 20% of people need to take out loans to pay for the funeral.
If you are trying to say Camilla had a much harder time than anyone else bereaved then I think that shows an incredible lack of understanding of what many people go through.

I didn't say she had a harder time, but your post was very dismissive of the strain she would have been under. Your disdain is evident.

Not many 75 year olds have jobs they have to continue doing until they die.

I still miss The Queen (Elizabeth). Her steady hand. Her lack of self. Her dry humour. Her decency. Just that she was always there.