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Why Prince Charles Should Keep His Views to Himself

Royal Pain

After a second cache of his letters to government ministers was revealed, Britain’s future King should be reminded that the point of a constitutional monarch is that they do not set policy.

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So, now we know why Prince Charles and the government fought so hard to get his letters to ministers suppressed.

It is the sheer sense of entitlement, the arrogance and the usually-fulfilled expectation of obedience that oozes from every typewritten word of the second and final cache of letters, released last...

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