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

I think having really good advisers and being really good at discernment is vital. The Queen was gifted at this and thus PR.

Other family members not so much.

No beetroot face any more, VixenTodd - in recent images the hands are still purplish but his face now looks very smooth and healthily coloured

So I'm wondering if, like his late grandfather towards the end, he's taken to wearing makeup

I noticed when they all started looking browner when Queenie was still here. I bet they use those OAP spray tan party deals.
He's the only one beyond rescue😁

George III was renowned for his florid complexion. I wonder if it’s simply a genetic, Hanovarian characteristic.

The queen traveled extensively when Charles and Anne were younger, so nanny brought them up. I also read that the during the middle period there were marital problems.l… who knows but if true Basically absent parents. Queen and prince Philip re engaged and Andrew and Edward were born, more time with them but Charles was at boarding school and horrifically bullied due to who he was, and unprotected by a military father who thought he should just get on with it.

so ignored by parents, other adults treated him as special, peers bullied him and he had no actual say in his life … recipe for disaster. He is a product of all of this.

underlying that he cares about the natural world and underprivileged children….. He understands that royal family is a business and needs to change. He isn’t perfect, but overall I think he’s trying. That’s all I expect from him… oh and I wanted to alone after my dad died and my action weren’t watched by millions so if Camilla went home maybe that’s what he wanted .