[Mb-civic] On Prince Charles and Camilla

[Alexander Harper]

Cheese - that is well up to standard. Good stuff, well written, fun to read, to the point. In the past 4 hours I have polished off 2 bottles of Argie Chardonnay + the best part of a bottle of Hennessy VSOP (over lunch) so I feel unqualified at this particular moment to make any intelligent comment. I will try to make an unintelligent one just the same.

I know Prince Charles and La Traviata (an euphemism for the new Duchess of Cornwall coined, as I write, by me - I shall crack down heavily on any plagiarism) personally, as does Michael, although what with me behaving like Indiana Jones in Africa and S.America over the past 2.5 decades our paths cross less frequently than before.

They are both decent enough people nowadays and have always been fun. Prince Charles always went out of his way to dance with poor lame old ladies, thus making their evening, even when he really didn't have to and although he can be terribly self-absorbed and grand and has a terrific victim complex he is also charming and sensitive and does a lot of unsung good and basically his heart is in the right place. Camilla will always support him. That is all she ever wanted to do although she probably quite likes the trappings that go with it.

Poor Diana was chosen to be a placid brood mare with no stains on her escutcheon and was foisted upon him by 'The Firm'. His heart was never in it. As it turned out she was a 'headstrong filly', he treated her quite wrong and she went sour on him and you can't blame her for that either...
Fuck it, I am rambling on - basically nobody is that right and nobody is that wrong on this one. If it had all been written by Sidney Sheldon or someone it would be a best seller - it is all quite clichayed enough to qualify for that, which is why it is so rivetting. 'Dynasty' meets the House of Windsor.

That's enough from me.
Hasta la vista
Al Baraka

----- Original Message -----
From: Cheeseburger <maxfury at granderiver.net>
To: "mb-civic" <mb-civic at islandlists.com>
Subject: [Mb-civic] On Prince Charles and Camilla
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:54:26 -0500

> 
> On Prince Charles and Camilla
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> Two interesting and nice people in a tough situation.
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> And Princess Diana is still sitting in her grave mulling it all over.
> 
> I certainly understand various people have various viewpoints on various
> other people, perhaps even some they favor for various reasons, Prince
> Charles and Camilla being the 2 people in this current thread, however, I
> cannot "serve 2 masters".  Either I hate the one and love the other, or visa
> versa.
> 
> Either Diana was a completely intolerant sadistic raving lunatic, or her
> actual Writings and Interviews to The Press and various other people
> indicating "the unholy hell Charles put me through for 15 years" and "I'm
> afraid Charles is going to kill me to clear the way to marry Camilla" and
> "Charles is simply not fit to assume the throne", among other things, are
> all true and right on the money.
> 
> If Diana was a realist and related what was actually going on, then I have
> about as much sympathy and congratulations for Charles and Camilla as I do
> for a Pope who, well, Arianna Huffington put it much better than I could in
> her latest article that was just posted up here.
> 
> On the other hand, if it actually turns out that Diana was a pathological
> liar wacko, then I wish Charles and Camilla the very best playing ding dong
> under the covers as Diana is rotting in her grave.
> 
> Either way, my opinion basically means zip as far as any Truth or Justice
> catching up to various people while they are alive in this life.  We tend to
> judge people on the merits of what other people say about them now and then,
> especially "royalty and celebrities" which "most of us" don't even ever have
> an opportunity to actually meet, much less really get to know.  If Diana
> wasn't doing Thorazine when she wrote all those things about Charles, then I
> have a tendency to have a natural built-in aversion to him.  Go figure, I
> was raised in America where many of us blurt out our feelings about other
> people based on things we think we've learned from things other people wrote
> about them like we were sitting at a baseball game yelling slurs at an
> umpire that we haven't the slightest clue whether he is a good or bad person
> or whether he really needs glasses or not.
> 
> Is Charles really "interesting" and "nice"....?
> 
> I will have to admit that he is "interesting".  Being born with a silver
> spoon in his mouth into British Royalty, and marrying a relative "Commoner"
> who had his children, then having an affair which apparently contributed to
> driving Diana "over the edge" of one thing or another, and then watching her
> "die in a car crash", and then marrying the woman he was having an affair
> with all that time, is certainly "interesting".
> 
> As far as "nice"...?   I don't really know the man.  I do know that if I
> handled things like he did down here in my little town, there would be very
> little wiggle room in the gossip columns down here as to my being "Nice".
> 
> Except, of course, if I was Royalty.  Then they would all be bending over
> backwards and standing in line to kiss my ring, whether I had a "nice" bone
> in my body or not.
> 
> Ah well, I can dream...        :|
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> Cheeseburger
> 
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