Sunday, November 09, 2003
One of the magical machine elves that lives in my computer has sent me a message concerning this whole Prince Charles brouhaha. Hirs contention is that Mr. Windsor is not involved in rape (which hopefully means I can get rid of those images of Prince Charles going "Who's your monarch? Squeel piggy!"), but has had relationships with men for quite a while. This would certainly explain why he prefered Camilla Parker-Bowles to Diana anyway. As the machine elf points out, for someone who will be head of a major world church to have had homosexual relationships would be extremely embaressing to all concerned, for fairly obvious reasons. More here.
Meanwhile, that bastion of all that's great about British journalism, the News of the World, has decided to lead with Is Prince Charles bisexual? Apparently Sir Michael Peat, Mr. Windsor's closest aide, phoned a NotW columnist last year, when he was a press secretary to Prince Charles, as he was concerned about whether Charlie liked the boys as well as the girls. They also report their News International stablemate The Times as printing "The valet [George] Smith alleges that he saw the prince in a compromising position with another employee. It is not the first time Mr Smith has sought publicity for highly coloured tales of sexual incidents". The Independent on Sunday meanwhile says the heir to the throne is willing to sue George Smith for 'breach of confidence', which would certainly make us have to reconsider exactly how stupid Prince Charles is. If he wanted to come out to the nation there are surely any number of less painful and embaressing ways of doing it.
(It hopefully doesn't need to be said but just in case anyone is in any doubt, I don't care the slightest who's genitalia Prince Charles finds more attractive, my only concern is the various abuses of power involved, the possible ramifications for the monarchy and the CoE and the fact there are people that get millions of pounds of our money to fritter away each year and go around as though they are better than us. I remember when Jackie Mason appeared on 'Have I Got News For You', around the time Mandelson was outed by journalist Matthew Paris. He angrily criticised everyone because he thought they were having a go at Mandy for being gay, not realising that everyone was having a go at Mandy because he was unpopular and the gay thing was pretty much unimportant. Prince Charles is not being hypocritical as such, I don't remember him ever saying anything anti-gay, though it would make any future relationship between him as monarch and the CoE untenable, unless the later were to change their position over homosexuality. Maybe he'll come out on national TV and tearfully blame his parents again?)
UPDATE: It seems that even American papers are keeping quiet over the allegations about Prince Charles...
Meanwhile, that bastion of all that's great about British journalism, the News of the World, has decided to lead with Is Prince Charles bisexual? Apparently Sir Michael Peat, Mr. Windsor's closest aide, phoned a NotW columnist last year, when he was a press secretary to Prince Charles, as he was concerned about whether Charlie liked the boys as well as the girls. They also report their News International stablemate The Times as printing "The valet [George] Smith alleges that he saw the prince in a compromising position with another employee. It is not the first time Mr Smith has sought publicity for highly coloured tales of sexual incidents". The Independent on Sunday meanwhile says the heir to the throne is willing to sue George Smith for 'breach of confidence', which would certainly make us have to reconsider exactly how stupid Prince Charles is. If he wanted to come out to the nation there are surely any number of less painful and embaressing ways of doing it.
(It hopefully doesn't need to be said but just in case anyone is in any doubt, I don't care the slightest who's genitalia Prince Charles finds more attractive, my only concern is the various abuses of power involved, the possible ramifications for the monarchy and the CoE and the fact there are people that get millions of pounds of our money to fritter away each year and go around as though they are better than us. I remember when Jackie Mason appeared on 'Have I Got News For You', around the time Mandelson was outed by journalist Matthew Paris. He angrily criticised everyone because he thought they were having a go at Mandy for being gay, not realising that everyone was having a go at Mandy because he was unpopular and the gay thing was pretty much unimportant. Prince Charles is not being hypocritical as such, I don't remember him ever saying anything anti-gay, though it would make any future relationship between him as monarch and the CoE untenable, unless the later were to change their position over homosexuality. Maybe he'll come out on national TV and tearfully blame his parents again?)
UPDATE: It seems that even American papers are keeping quiet over the allegations about Prince Charles...
