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Or maybe they didn't. OK, I admit it, it's all made up.
“Palace admits Edward and Charles are gay.”
Sorry to disappoint, it hasn't happened. Can you ever imagine it happening? Ever? It is a statistical certainty that at some stage some member of the royal family will do something scandal-worthy and just as obviously as night follows day the palace will deny it and claim that it is a risible suggestion that nobody in their right minds would believe.
We might believe that once or twice, but can we be expected to swallow that line for ever?
Prince Charles Scandal
I have no idea whether the rumours about the sexuality of Charles and Edward are true and I don't really care. My concern is that “the palace” is run like the Kremlin. It gives the British public the mushroom treatment, it keeps us in the dark and feeds us bullshit. Could it ever be any other way? The members of the royal family are private individuals as well as public figures, we have no right to know what they do in their bedrooms (even if they are doing it with a man on The Firm's time) if they don't want us to know. The problem is caused by the institution of monarchy, it introduces the idea that it is somehow in the greater good of the public to be lied to. I disagree. The future of the monarchy is not a matter of national security. The monarchy does not deserve to be protected by lies, smears or abuse of the courts. (Still less, obviously, by murder.)
British Monarchy in Crisis
The monarchy is a self perpetuating gravy train for the current beneficiaries, who are mainly those employed by the family directly and indirectly, butlers, footmen, maids, advisers, royal correspondents, gossip columnists, toadying interviewers and the like. The benefit to the country at large is minuscule.
Tourists might come to see palaces and soldiers and crowns, and they can still be there without a head inside the crown. Besides, similar numbers of tourists go to Paris as go to London, they ain't going to see Napoleon or King Louis. Just a look at the tourist's trinket stands in London shows what tourists come to see, pictures of the royals are outnumbered by pictures of bobbies, beefeaters, punks and famous buildings. The monarchy is now a cancer in the heart of the nation, it has control of the blood supply ensuring it gets fed but doesn't want to be kept in check by the body politic. It is time to excise it.
Wouldn't Charles be a lot happier just living as the Duke of Cornwall, a title with no more constitutional significance than the Pearly King of Peckham?
The Royal Scandal. What we can and can't tell you. Throne Out
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While serving in the US Navy aboard the USS Enterprise
I have heard that Prince Charles, and another British officer were
sent to the US Navy to complete their sea duty requirements, and
because of an incident between the two they were secretly returned
to the British Navy without comment. Ken Thompson |