At a time when most wage earners are retiring Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall is still waiting to do the job he was supposedly born to. He and his lovely wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, celebrated his birthday number 65 this week in Sri Lanka. Charles was in Sri Lanka to represent mommy at the Commonwealth Conference.
It should be mentioned that Prime Minister Stephen Harper was not there. He figured he could pass up this conference as a protest for the way the Sri Lankan Sinhalese government treated the rebellious Tamils. British Prime Minister David Cameron said something at the conference to the effect that you can better address human rights questions at the commonwealth conference by being there and discussing them. He even flew up to the Tamil part of the country to see for himself. Mr. Harper has never seen the Tamil problems first hand and was not there to hear Cameron’s report.
But Prince Charles is constrained in appearing on behalf of a figurehead from talking about meaningful things such as human rights. He wants to be a figurehead for all of Britain’s colonies. He can barely wait to be King of England and all its territories. He has to wait until mommy is dead. It is an archaic and quite cruel custom but monarchists think it should be done that way.
What is puzzling about this is that Charles really wants the job. When he was younger, he had to marry this very attractive young lady who looked like a princess and produced two nice-looking young heirs with her. While he was married to her, he was carrying on his extramarital affair with the lovely Camilla. That annoyed the princess and she ran off to have her own fun. That somehow got her dead.
Mr. Harper thinks that Canadians should be happy with this arrangement for Canada’s head of state. Here we have this nice old lady in Buckingham Palace as our Queen. We know she is because her face is on our $20-bill and our coins. Other than that, we do not seem to have much use for her. When she goes off to her reward, we will have King Charles III as our head of state.
King Charles III should be well aware that his ancestor, the Tudor Charles II was a bit of a swinger with lots of mistresses and reigned for about 15 years, it was Charles I, the father, who had his head chopped off. That is one of the disadvantages of being a figurehead. If people do not like the arrangement, they might decide that chopping off Charles’ head is one of the alternatives.
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