Bit of context: Paul Burrell is a free-loading chancer who will do anything to keep his gravy train going.
If you believe his claim about the paper in the bin, I'd like to know where you stand on his claim that he's being haunted by the ghost of Princess Diana.
Depends how you define privileged. He’s unbelievably rich. But he can’t ever relax, he has to shake hands and pretend to be interested in about a thousand people a week. And he’s never in his life been to the cinema or a restaurant or any other normal activity without it being a gigantic fan fair. And he could never ever get drunk in front of anybody but his most trusted staff or family. He almost certainly has never had a truly authentic friendship. To see his mum he had to arrange an appointment. I don’t think I’d switch places with him. It’s not the same as being rich and famous like Beyoncé or Bill Gates. I think it rather swap places with anybody in the upper middle class than Charles.
This is actually the biggest part of why I am anti-monarchy for the UK. The Royals are people who should get to choose their own life path just like anyone else - to whatever extent we do get to choose our life path - rather than being forced by an accident of birth onto such a rigid path. He would have been much happier getting to be a civil engineer and marrying Camilla in the first place.
Absolutely hilarious to read a comment from an America explaining why they are anti-monarchy for the UK. Are you aware that your own country is currently the laughing stock of the world?
If you’re really financially struggling I understand. But you could have all the best stuff he has by being literally any other celebrity in the UK. Im not saying he’s worse off than every body else. But people make out like he has it all and I really don’t think he does. I’d take the life of pretty much anybody in the middle class before I take his. People make out like he’s the luckiest person alive and I just don’t buy it
He could abdicate the throne if he found the life that hard. Personally I wouldn't want to be born into that institution but if I lived in a literal palace for a week then maybe I'd change my mind
He likely feels the pressure of tradition and history though. A damaging abdication could spell the end of the monarchy in Britain and then what? We end up with President Johnson, or President Farage, or President Clarkson.
But even if the monarchy survived, William would be thrust into the leading role. Suddenly William would no longer be able to spend what little Time he has with his wife and kids. Likely Charles will go on as long as he can so will gets to see his kids grow up in slightly more normalcy as a Prince rather than if he was king. You have to remember that. The idea of abdication is clouded by the fact you will then be willingly throwing your eldest born into the absolute shitshow and circus that is the British Royal family. You grandchildren will then be bumped up one level, poor George will become the heir apparent and even more restrictions placed on him at a young age. Yes yes I know, boo hoo a flea circus of tiny violins strikes up the sad song.....but when you ask "they can just abdicate" remember they aren't just thinking about themselves when they leave, it's the shtook they'll leave their family in that possibly stays their hand.
Butlers that will apparently pick things up for you so you don't have to even bend down or (god forbid) stick your hands in a paper trash can, or constantly struggling to pay rent and keep food on the table. Hmm, tough choice.
EDIT: Downvotes aren't going to make me sympathize with rich cunts calling themselves "princes" or "kings."
Yeah just assuming everyone is here is middle class, decent car, 50 grand saved in the bank, eat out 3 times a week, 401k.
100% there are people who would definitly kill to live this man's extremely rich, yet boring and probaly lonely life, over constant struggle and suffering.
I have none of those things, my life is constant struggle and suffering and I agree with the other commenter. The opulent luxury and hyper-privilege are just icing covering up a cake made of shit.
For real. people are working 3 jobs to afford ramen and I’m supposed to feel sorry for a guy eating caviar off the back of a platypus with a diamond spoon… because he has to shake hands with other wealthy people for his job? Big fuckin boo hoo
That is not nearly all there is to it. You may be rich, but your time no longer belongs to you. Good bye gaming. Goodbye driving where you want. Your entire life is now on display forever and you can no longer do..nvm other guy wrote it all out for you
Or maybe...you and that person both come from a relative place of privilege and you wouldn't make that swap while many people struggling to feed their family would readily make the switch because they already have no free time or money to spend on things?
Speaking as someone who is unfamiliar with royalty, what would happen if King Charles just decided "Today I'm gonna sit here in my boxers and play Skyrim all day" and refused to do anything else? What happens to him? He's the King, can't he just do whatever he wants?
You only see a fraction of this guys life and it’s only when he’s making public appearances. This dude definitely has more than enough time to do whatever he wants to. There’s 24 hours in a day, and you’re acting like he has to shake hands and attend events for 16 of the hours. Also, it’s not like this every single day. He has plenty of downtime, and being one of the most privileged person on the planet I bet he spends it doing awesome things. Well he’s old now, but when he was younger he was.
You meam, like any other famous person? Who fucking cares. Except this guy is treated insanely well for only one thing. Because he was born into the right family, and his blood is royal, so as everyone else struggles to feed their families or buy a home. This guy lucked out and is rich, on everyone else’s penny btw. And the poor guy has to act posh and shake hands and go to openings for hospitals? Omfg.. the poor poor rich royal!!
Fucking bootlicker ass argument from you lmao. Loser energy pitying the ROYAL FAMILY 🤡
Another boo hoo tbh. He could not do all that pandering and pomp and display… he chooses to. He’s the king, if he wanted he could take 10 chests of jewels and live in a woodsy forest and fuck a goat while being protected by snipers the rest of his life. He likes the attention
That’s not how it works at all. The royal family can’t just piss off with all the money, they can’t even enact laws. Tbh eh know that the second they tried, we’d burn their fucking palace down
Edit: ah, I see you’re American. Makes a lot of sense that you’re talking out of your arse about something you know nothing about
I don't get it. Being born into that takes all your free will away? Couldn't he just make the decision to be like, I'm not doing that handshake shit no more. I'm about to just chill in my bed and jerk off all day, and play cod? Would the kill him? Would he get kicked out the family? Would they like exile him or something?
Unfortunately, your comment demonstrates that you’re incapable of doing his job, purely because you can’t withhold your disdain for the rich for more than three seconds at a time.
Quite a choice there deciding to defend a man born into royalty, who will never have a single day of hardship his entire life. He gets a life full of wealth he never worked a single hard day to earn, but was instead stolen from people. Most of whom are much poorer than him.
that comment is extremely dumb lol. he can do all of those things - they are not disallowed. it would cause some hassles for him & his family, and he likely wouldn't enjoy many of those things anyway.
but he can absolutely show up wasted to an event, and nothing bad will happen to him. he can go to a gigantic fair in america, few people would recognize him. he can go to the best restaurants in the world on his private jet, and he can go to a tiny spot in greece (and again, no one will actually recognize or givve a shit)
people become desperate to convince us that the rich are struggling "just like us" and its the dumbest thing ever lol. some of us are working double shifts & figuring out which one we can skip so we can take our mom to chemo, and these clowns talk like royals have it tough.
definitely not struggling just like us in most ways, but in ways we don't get. Most would be smart to swap places with him. My Dad was in the Navy with him and he was a bit of a loner - maybe in that way he struggles some of us do. But I don't think he feels the freedom we do. If he turns up drunk somewhere it would be a media storm that would follow him the rest of his life
It's a silly thing to compare really, and utterly pointless. Plus what the fuck are we doing with royals in 2025. Whole thing is stupid. Why write this? Who am I?
Everyone’s life sucks. It just sucks for different reasons. But his ups are considerably higher than the vast majority of the planet, so it’s hard to give a shit.
Yes I genuinely do feel bad for the royal family. They can't leave because if they do they will lose all their money. Which at first I thought who cares make your own but then I realized no one would hire them and they'd have to go the celebrity route. I seriously judged Harry and Meghan for their career choices but they need to pay for security for one and what else are they going to do but pop culture? And of course they're not good at it. They are doomed.
But he can’t ever relax, he has to shake hands and pretend to be interested in about a thousand people a week. And he’s never in his life been to the cinema or a restaurant or any other normal activity without it being a gigantic fan fair. And he could never ever get drunk in front of anybody but his most trusted staff or family. He almost certainly has never had a truly authentic friendship. To see his mum he had to arrange an appointment.
All of which he could have chosen at any point to no longer participate in.
I’m going to go out on a limb and assume he has access to the top Hollywood level of talent that could disguise him so he would not be recognizable in a public setting. If he did do that he definitely would not be telling people about it.
I’m an average aware global citizen and I could not pick him out of a crowd without all the fanfare.
I dont think being stressed out by pretending to look interested all day is an excuse for someone literally wiping your ass since you were born. I definitely agree that I would never want to trade places with him, but the luxuries he's afforded at the expense of the taxpayer are absolutely asinine.
I agree, it would be much better to switch with someone insanely rich that wasn't a royal. But his "requirements" and "appointments" are entirely self-imposed. He could choose to do whatever he wants, with little repercussions. He chooses (or according to this post, doesn't) to be the person you say he has to be.
He can totally get drunk, c'mon. I'm sure the guy has an estate somewhere or at least has access to one.
And honestly I wish my parents were so busy that I could just tell them "oh none of your appointment dates worked, sorry I couldn't make it"
And tbh if he wanted to go to a normal restaurant he could just go to idk Florida and wear a pair of sunglasses. I guarantee you nobody would recognize him if he was alone, and honestly he could just be like "nah buddy, I just look like him, I get that all the time.
I mean hell I'm sure he has a secret body double to go to the opera for him so he can claim plausible deniability.
That said, you know what would probably be really sweet? Being the body double for the king. All of the fanfare plus you can always just pull out your ID if you need someone to stop bothering you.
Actually I bet the king has a fake ID. I mean that's gotta be one of the perks.
I went to a play in London once and Prince Charles was also there (this was before he was king).
He was just in a regular seat in the audience and it didn’t seem like people were bothering him. Although I guess the fact we even knew he was there was a sign there was a small amount of fanfare about it.
Are you genuinely trying to set up an argument for "The head of a monarchy isn't privileged"? Monarchy is about as privileged as it fucking gets. Yes of course there are downsides to privilege, privilege doesn't just mean everything is wonderful all the time, but the guy is about as close as you can get to the physical embodiment of the concept.
But perhaps then 3 billion odd people they put into poverty wouldn't mind swapping with them.
The monarchy is redundant and everyone will be glad when they are all gone. Diana was the only human being there and if not for those boys all they would be left with is that molester Andrew and this skin puppet Charles
He’s on vacation for half the year. He did 186 engagements last year, and most of those engagements lasted less than an hour. Even if you count that as a day of work, that still leaves 6 months of free time where he can walk around in a kilt and berate his gardeners until they quit. The “hard-working” Royal is a myth. They may work a lot more than the average aristocrat who does nothing at all, but by the standards of real people, they do almost nothing.
he doesn't "have to" shake hands with anyone. he could just abdicate and still live the billionaire life. the rest of us actually "have to" work for a living
He could give it up, it’s a life he has chosen. Whatever the reason he chose it and I’ve no sympathy. Maybe he’s a nice guy, but monarchy is wrong, hoarding extreme wealth even more so.
And please nobody tell me that gives to charity, all the lizards do that.
Charles and his penchant for not doing a damn thing for himself has been well know for years but yeah as soon as the clip started I was oh that’s Paul Burrell and he is always full of shit too lol.
Even in business with customers that are egregious assholes we never mention names except to close business associates. It's considered unprofessional in every context.
Even if his claim was 100% on point I would consider this person trash. As I tell my kids, you don't use personal issues at home to embarrass them in public, let alone on tv.
Whoose around to tell TV that Paul Burrel wanks into a sock looking at women walk past on the sidewalk daily and once forgot to wash his cum laden sock before putting it on for work one day?
Yes, Burrell has his own agenda. Charles is no more privileged than any other nepo baby of a billionaire. He has to behave himself in public a bit more but that’s it.
I had a retired Air Force colonel do something very similar to me, except I wasn’t in the military, and I laughed at him and walked away. It does not seem that far fetched that a member of the royal family would behave that way.
You’re treating those two claims like they’re equally ridiculous, when knowing what I know about King Charles the story about the bin seems reasonable.
If you believe his claim about the paper in the bin, I'd like to know where you stand on his claim that he's being haunted by the ghost of Princess Diana.
I don't believe him. Charles used to come an stay in the countryside in Romania. Dressed up like any other peasant in rubber boots. Clean and tidy but I never saw him shy away from doing anything he wanted done in front of him.
I remember seeing a video from some cyclists where they encountered him out for a walk alone, and he stopped to have a little chat with them as though he was just a regular guy from the village out for a walk. That for me doesn't align at all with the idea of him being pretentious enough to refuse to bend down and pick up a letter from a bin. I'm sure he's spoiled and out of touch, but he has never struck me as someone who would behave like that, so it's good that you provided some context
In addition, he was literally a butler - he chose to go into service, which involves doing tasks for someone and being discreet. As long as it isn't dangerous or humiliating, JFDI and keep your views to yourself.
I've just made a post about him and I gave him the benefit of the doubt with the paper in the bin but you are right he is probably lying!
The bloke was a butler to the royal family and then tried to make his fortune by telling stories like this. Pulling a face about doing menial tasks as a butler for the royal family, what did he expect to be doing? He knew it would be stuff like this but now he is trying to rile up the plebs to make himself some cash!
And I say plebs as he is clearly educated and at the minimum middle class, probably upper middle class. Bet his salary was a lot higher than national average aswell!
To sum him up in a word arsehole!
P.S apparently he was born working class! So I'll give him that one!
This reminds me of the epiphany I had this year about comedians:
You know when a comedian tells a story rich in details, and you’re laughing and feel like you know them better?
Most of those stories - the ones from the greatest comedians - are fabrications. They’re professional storytellers and joke writers, they don’t need to be honest to be funny. John Mulaney didn’t actually get arrested as an adolescent with two other guys named John.
Paul doesn’t need to be honest to try and sell his book.
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u/TariqKhalaf Aug 06 '25
Bit of context: Paul Burrell is a free-loading chancer who will do anything to keep his gravy train going.
If you believe his claim about the paper in the bin, I'd like to know where you stand on his claim that he's being haunted by the ghost of Princess Diana.