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.
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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