{"id":13292,"date":"2022-09-10T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T09:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-king-with-the-long-past-speech\/"},"modified":"2022-09-10T09:19:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T09:19:21","slug":"the-king-with-the-long-past-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/the-king-with-the-long-past-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"The king with the long past – Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cThe others in the dorm are so mean. Goodness, they are so cruel, I didn’t know anyone could be so mean\u201d. This was what Queen Elizabeth’s eldest son, Charles, young and terrified, wrote in a letter from Gordonstoun boarding school in 1964. It was his father who had decided that he should start at his own old school, up on the windswept coast of Scotland. The school was known for its spartan and rigid regime, and Philip thought that the sensitive son would benefit from being a little tougher. But for the prince, his father’s choice was disastrous. Charles was heavily bullied. He is said to have been locked in a basket and put under a cold shower. The others beat him and threw shoes at him, and if anyone was nice to him, the other boys made slurping noises, to suggest that whoever was trying to be friendly to Charles was only trying to get in on a royal prince. Charles was brought up to be impeccably polite in every situation, and was reprimanded if he forgot to say “misser” to the bodyguard. He was appalled by the brutality at Gordonstoun, and begged his parents to take him out of the school. But it was unthinkable that the royal family would cause the school such a loss of prestige. Charles had to persevere. The man who became King Charles III of England on Wednesday night has made no secret of the fact that he thinks life has been difficult. His friends call him “Tussi”, because of his penchant for pessimism. The king is also convinced that many of the difficulties have been directly related to the fact that he was prince and heir to the throne. It was this that meant he had to stay at Gordonstoun, and it was this that meant he was not free to choose whom he wanted to marry, but was discreetly pushed in the direction of the young Lady Diana Spencer. She was young, noble, beautiful and pristine, perfect for the monarchy but not quite so perfect for Charles. It was an unhappy marriage between two sensitive, vulnerable and demanding people, which exploded in a dramatic divorce and a conflict between Diana and the royal family that shook the very foundations of the House of Windsor. But it was not only the dramatic private life that caused Charles to be both criticized and mocked in the press. The heir to the throne was also hanged for his many and sometimes controversial affairs of the heart. The prince has been a champion of the use of alternative medicine, he has been fascinated by religious mysticism and parapsychology, and he has been at war with modern architects who he believes are littering British cities with ugly houses. He has also had a strong climate commitment since he was young, became concerned with organic farming and warned early on against global warming. As early as 1988, he had a conversation on stage with the then US senator Al Gore about the dangers of climate change. At the time, this activist fervor was seen as somewhat eccentric, and Charles was duly ridiculed in the media, particularly after he came to say that he enjoyed talking to his plants. But precisely at this point it can be said that the current king has had a thorough revenge, and in recent years he has been praised for his early involvement in the climate issue. There is a common thread running through the king’s heart matters: A clear and rather melancholic world view. King Charles III is a backward-looking man. He is a nostalgic and a romantic. He likes old music and literature, houses as they used to look, medicine that comes straight from nature, and untouched landscapes. He can often appear so old-fashioned that he is almost anti-modern, skeptical of the idea that science, technology and rationality actually represent progress, and concerned that emotions and intuition are the way to insight. Such a figure will often feel homeless in the modern world. He probably often wishes that he does not understand the forward-thinking society, and that it does not understand him. Charles has made no secret of the fact that the characteristics have hurt him. In contrast to his stoic mother, he is keen to be understood, to defend himself and explain himself. In 1996, he contributed to the publication of an authorized biography of over six hundred pages, written by journalist Jonathan Dimbleby, in which he told how he had experienced his parents as distant and unloving and his ex-wife, Princess Diana, as unpredictable and impossible to understand. The prince wanted to tell the world that he had tried his best. But not many people were interested in listening to him, and the book did not have nearly the impact as “Diana: Her True Story”, Diana’s version of the story of the cohabitation between the two. At the same time, it may seem as if something has fallen into place in the king’s life in recent decades. The marriage with the woman who was once called Camilla Parker-Bowles, with whom he fell in love already in the seventies, has by all accounts been harmonious. She is the warm, relaxing bouta in his life, something that the young and vulnerable Diana was ill-equipped to become. When Charles III gets the crown on his head, he also gets, at the age of 73, a clearer direction and a clearer task than he has had before. As Prince of Wales, Charles was restless, searching, open to criticism and correction. As head of an ancient institution, the old-fashioned man may finally find his place.
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