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?
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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.