xenocity wrote:
The reason why no one likes Charles is due to the following:
1) He is dull to the point of insulting
2) He doesn't care for the people
3) He is very unnatural at interacting with the people
4) He doesn't like being in public that much
5) He doesn't relate to the people
6) He was educated in the palace instead of being at school
7) He just doesn't get people

He is stiff in this appearance
9) He conforms to the stereotypical royal fashion
10) He married the Diana, who became the most popular Princess in the past few hundred years, largely in part because she loved mingling and helping the people.
11) He was a bad husband to Diana
12) He cheated on Diana
13) He divorced Diana to marry that Camilla (who he was cheating with)
14) He was a distant father to his kids
15) He wasn't seen with them too often
16) He regularly was seen correcting Diana and his kids in front of the press, to make sure they were acting all royal
17) He didn't seem phased by Diana's sudden death and wasn't comforting his kids even on camera
18) He married Camilla, after his mother finally relented begrudgingly
19) He is gaffe prone
20) Despite the best of intentions, he screwed up hugely
I'm not one to normally defend Charles. But 6 is just not true and 2, 4, 7, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 are disputable or not that accurate.
In fact part of the reason why people don't like him is he was not the royal people expected him to be.
Honestly people don't care the much about the divorce, some people do, but it is just not big news anymore.
I think he probably does care a bit for young people, through his Prince's Trust scheme. Whether he gets them is another matter, but you could say that for most of the royals. In a way he is criticized for being a bit of a hipster, and pushing his view on homeopathy, architecture, farming and ecology.
He is is part of the story that makes Harry and William popular. That story is hardly dull. You could say he played a critical role in that.
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