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.
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.
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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.