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When Prince Charles married Lady Diana in 1 C31,
I was in London for the royal wedding Even then it
seeded to me that things raiht suddenly f,ct tou;:h
for Charles; on his way to a wedding rehearsal he
tripped wallib; up a f.iht of steps, and the trip was.
captured on videotape and broadcast all over the
world; it een?d to me that the ctunblo v:z3 a. sym
bol of what lay ahead.
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Now it seems to have happened. Prince Charles,
as everyone knows, was once regarded as the
"action man" of British royalty. If he wasn't playing
polo he was flying jet. planes; if he wasn't flying jet
planes he was shooting birds.
But the public perception of Charles is undergo
ing a drastic revision or at least it will if the
publishers who put out those supermarked tabloids
have thier way. -
You know the publicat ions I'm talking about. They
feature articles about Elvis Presley giving, concerts
in heaven, or Princess Grace sending cookie recipies
to Earth from the great beyond.
I happened onto one of the tabloids the'other day.
It wasn't reporting on Ehins or Princess Grace or
even gorgeious aliens from Saturn landing on Earth.
Instead, it featured a major "investigation" of Prince
Charles.
The headline was:
"DI TURNS CHARLES INTO ROYAL WIMP"
The first paragraph was written with all the
authority of Woodward and Bernstein:
"Princess Diana has turned Prince Charles frcm a
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fun loving sportsman into a henpecked wimp, palace
insiders reveal"
The "palace insiders" were specific in what they
reportedly told the tabloid:
They say she's used her womanly wiles to per
suade Charles to give up his favorite 'blood sports'
l:!:e fox hunting and bird sheeting and to even
take up jazz-ballet exercises with her, wearing 'his-and-ficr'
leotards!"
An unnamed "friend of Diana" is quoted as telling
the tabloid:
"Poor Charles is like putty in her hands. She may
look sweet and innocent on the surface but when
it comes to scheming, devious Di makes Alexis on
Dynasty look almost guileless."
That same "friend" reportedly laughed and said:
"His brother Prince Andrew makes slightly barbed
jokes about Charles being so badly henpecked he is
too weak to carry a shotgun."
Another "friend of the royal couple" is quoted as
telling the tabloid:
"Wimp is the word you hear being mentioned in
connection with Charles all the time these days.
"There is hardly any trace of the man who married
Di three years ago. His father and brothers are
stunned by the changes in him, and the Queen is also
becoming concerned."
And "a source close to Charles" is quoted as
saying:
'"He is only half the man he used to be. We no
longer see him as 'the action man Prince.' That
tough, go-getting image has been replaced by a new,
rather wimpish character."
The tabloid said Charles had refused to go phea
sant hunting with his father, Prince Philip, and
quoted that same "source close to Charles" as
saying: '
"He made the feeble excuse that he preferred to
stay with Diana and his son, William. Charles' father
was furious and told me: "It appears that the future
King of England would rather change nappies
(diapers) than take part in a day's sport."
And Prince Philip is quoted as telling a "confidante":
"That woman (Princess Diana) has undone 30
years of royal tutelage in just one-tenth of that time.
She ought to stick to dressing up and having babies
and leave Charles alone to act like a man!"
So Charles is faced with a dilemma. Being accused
of embezzlement or criminal wrongdoing is one
thing; public officials explain their way out of those
accusations all the time.
But this? Should Charles call a press conference
to bravely proclair.1:: "I am not a wimp?"
Should he contemptuously toss his son's diapers
into the air, yank the needle off Diana's jazzercise
record, rip off his leotard and leap out the palace
window onto the back of his pclo pony? -
It's a touh one to figure out The tabloid approv
ingly ran two pictures of Charles "the way he was";
one in which blood streamed from a wound in his
lip, and one in which he carried a shotgun in the
crook of his arm: Another picture this one
obviously disapproving showed "wimp" Charles
"the way he is now" holding his baby instead of his
'gun.
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Regardless of how Charles decides to deal with
this criticism, his reputation is bound to suffer. I'm
usually not a reader of the supermarket tabloids,
but this story has got me hooked. I'll be buying next
w eek's issue to see what happens.
Who knows? Under pressure like this, marriages
have been known to fall apart. I want to see if Prince
Charles starts dating a gorgeous alien from Saturn.
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