r/BeAmazed • u/ShehrozeAkbar • Aug 06 '25

Skill / Talent The royal lifestyle

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u/ChattingToChat Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

That being said, King* Charles is definitely living one of the most privileged lifestyles of all time.

Edit: changed it to King

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u/Adam-West Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25

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.

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u/sleepgreed Aug 06 '25

Cant the king change these things? I mean. He's literally king

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u/Jaded_Library_8540 Aug 06 '25

The king has to follow rules, and a lot of these rules are things which have been around for hundreds of years.

And ofc there's the whole problem of "if you start changing things too much people might realised that they can change you being king at all"

It's not been a case of the king does what he wants since Magna carta, and it's only gotten more restrictive since then.