The most controversial moments of Prince Charles you have forgotten
The venerable royal is not foreign to land in hot water.
Prince Charles' 70th anniversary This month approaches closely. He always waits to be king, in the shadow of his mother,Queen Elizabethbut otherwise satisfied personally.
Forty years after his meeting for the first time, Charles is married to the love of his life,Camilla Parker Bowles (Now the Duchess of Cornwall) since 2005. He apparently has a good relationship with his sons,Princes William andHarry (Although my royal sources say it's much closer to Harry). In the British papers, it was hereeted like nothing less than a brilliant armor knight when itEntra at the last minute to walkMeghan murder halfway from the aisle after his wandering father,Thomas Markle, supported, afterIts program to organize photos with paparazzi was discovered a few days before the wedding. Then, the biggest day, Charles has charmed the world with the gallantry and the kindness he has shownDoria RaglandMeghan's mother - the only representative of her family to attend marriage. After the ceremony, he stood in front of the Chapel of Saint-George between Camilla and Doria on the arms related to the two women as a show of a family unit.
But there was a moment when Charles was often a subject of contempt and ridicule. During his unhappy marriage toPrincess Diana, Which has danger the future of the monarchy, he has often made headlines for things he certainly had to forget. Well, we do not have it. Here is a look at the most controversial moments of Prince Charles.
1 The "No matter ... Love means" Note
The marriage of Charles and Diana was sentenced from the beginning. When the couple gave their first interview on the day of their commitment in February 1981, the prince abrasied the world when he gave one of the most awkward answers in history to a simple question: "Are you loved ? " The Rougissante-To-Be bride responded nervous, "of course". The visibly uncomfortable prince then said, "All that" love "means".
The public did not know at the time that the prince had anything but having been forced to marry Diana, who was considered a suitable match for the future king because of his aristocratic background (and even more important at the time because she was a virgin) to secure an heir to the throne, even if he still lovedCamilla Parker Bowles. This moment, forever registered in time on the video, is a sad artifact of the disastrous union that almost brought back the British monarchy.
2 Charles goes to the Opera at the worst possible time.
In 1991, eight yearsPrince William has undergone emergency surgery for a skull fracture after being touched by a golf club playing with classmates. The young prince was maintained during the night at the Grand Hospital d'Ormond de London after an hour operation. Diana spent the night sleeping in a bed installed near William's room so she could take care of her son. Charles has adopted a different approach.
Rather than staying and comforting his wife and his wounded son, after a fifteen minute visit, the prince left the hospital to go to the opera. It is not surprising that when Buckingham Palace has informed the prince's decision to keep his previous commitment, but "kept in touch with doctors" (it was long before the mobile phones), he was beaten in the tabloids.
3 Diana is solo at Taj Mahal.
One of the most iconic photographs never taken from Diana was shot during a visit to India with Charles in February 1992. The couple had to visit the Taj Mahal together, but Diana went alone herself, who led to photography. From the head in mind by Martin Keene. It has become the defined image - and the most memorable of the tour. Charles chose to visit a school of architecture and made a speech to the manufacturers while his wife was sitting alone on a bench in front of the famous "monument to love".
At the time, Diana told Reporters her visit there "was a very healing experience." When asked what she meant by her comment, she replied, "Works it for yourself."The mirror Diana announced his hostProfessor Mukund Rawat During the visit, "it would have been better if both were here. But my husband must be in Delhi."
The image became the incarnation of the solitude and isolation of Diana and took greater importance when the royal couple separated a few months later. Charles was roundly criticized in the media not to accompany his wife. During their stay of the week in India in 2016, Prince William andKate Middleton Apparently paid tribute to the end princess byRecreate the shooting shot side by side instead of Diana posed all these years.The photographers also captured a rare moment of William, losing his calm when the prince was removed from his eyes.
4 Camber
One of the most outrageous and most embarrassing episodes in the Prince's life occurred in 1992 when a telephone conversation between Charles and Camilla was disclosed to the media. On the infamous recording, Charles said he wanted ... Well, just read for yourself:
Charles: "Oh my God. I'll come just inside your pants or something like that. It would be much easier!"
Camilla: (laughs.) "What are you going to transform me, a pair of panties?" (Both laughs). "Oh, you'll come back like a pair of panties."
Charles: "Or, God forbids, a tampax. Just my luck!" (Laughs.)
Camilla: "You are a full idiot!" (Laughs.) "Oh, what wonderful idea!"
The humiliating episode became known as "Camilla-gate" or, in a circle, "tampongate".
5 His persistent criticism of architecture
Charles has often been criticized by the profession of its fort and its vocation.Do not like modern design. The prince is best known for his rigid criticism (who was considered an "attack") on modernism during a celebration of the 150th anniversary at the palace of architects and design professionals in 1984. In his speech, he slammed Unexpectedly an extension offered to the national gallery like "a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a very loved and elegant friend". The plans were then discarded.
Then three years later, London's annual planning and communication planning dinner corporation said, "You have to give the Luftwaffe, when he reversed our buildings, that did not fill them up Not with nothing more offensive than rubble. "
In 2009, noted the architectRichard Rogers Blamed Charles to make him throw the prestigious Chelsea barrack project. Rogers said theGuardian"We had hoped that Prince Charles had declined his position on modern architecture, but he destroyed this project." Rogers claimed that it was the third time that the future king played a role in the closure of one of his projects, claiming that Charles had also had a hand in the annulment of his designs, among other structures, the Royal Opera.
According to a BBC documentary just published to mark her 70th anniversary, the prince recently said that he would stop "mixing me" in architectural problems when he became king.
6 This interview with legendary Jonathan Dimbleby
The 1994 television interview withJonathan Dimbleby, a well-known British journalist, was anything but the final nail of the coffin of the union troubled Wales. When asked if he had been "faithful and honorable" during his marriage, the prince replied "yes", then paused and added this kicker- "until he became irremediably decomposed, we both tried. "
The program, which was broadcast on the BBC and was made to mark the 25th anniversary of its investivals like the Prince of Wales, was meant to show on a human and warm side of Charles, but resolving perverse when the heir of the British throne has publicly admitted that he had committed an adultery.
Charles also stated that he did not establish a divorce from Diana and did not add, he did not believe that a divorce should prevent him from becoming king. The prince also insisted there, there was no "no truth" with the rumors he had an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles and described her as "a great friend" of which he was valorized.
The next day,The daily mirror Expressed the overwhelming feelings of the British people in an editorial that read, in part: "It is not the first royal to be unfaithful. But it is the first to appear before 25 million of its subjects to confess." And for a more juicy royal drama,Here is the secret story behind the famous "revenge dress" of Diana.
Diane Clehane is a journalist and author of New York Imagine Diana and Diana: the secrets of his style .
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