Charles: 'I am being tortured by public over Camilla'

[quaoar]

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=615228

By Francis Elliott
27 February 2005

The Prince of Wales has lashed out at public mockery of his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles claiming he is being "tortured" in a hitherto unreported interview.

Gavin Hewitt, a BBC journalist, revealed details last night of an off-the-record interview in which the Prince says he is tired of being told what to do. According to Hewitt, the Prince bridled at suggestions that his relationship with Mrs Parker Bowles was a matter of public interest.

"All my life people have been telling me what to do. I'm tired of it. My private life has become an industry. People are making money out it," Mr Hewitt says he was told in today's Mail on Sunday.

Although conducted some time ago, the details of the officially sanctioned conversation reveal the depth of Prince Charles' bitterness at public opinion about his private life. "I thought the British people were supposed to be compassionate. I don't see much of it," he said.

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Chuckles should ask Gerry Conlon....

about what torture is like.

[elshiva]

2. Grow up, Charlie!

[miss_kitty]

3. how long until THIS gets dumped on the lounge?

[quaoar]

28. Apparently not very long

And it's kind of silly to do so.

[mikita]

4. he may have a point...

but I can't help but drag out my teeny tiny violin...

[quaoar]

5. There is too much attention paid

to the private lives of the royal family.

Of course, if he really hates it, he can always abdicate. But then he might have to go out and get a real job.

[barb162]

20. he wouldn't ever be able to hold down a job...too whiney and beside

that, he is independently wealthy with all that duchy money rolling in.

[KittyWampus]

11. the teeny tiny violin

:nopity:

[oldtime dfl_er]

6. sorry but his lack of "compassion" for his ex-wife was pretty staggering

and he tried to make a mockery of her private life. Karma, baby.

[barb162]

21. yeah, I agree. Chucky is a selfish philanderer who cares only

about himself and then when someone gets on his case, he talks like a snivelling 3 year old. He's not "king" material

[Rex]

7. Well start public floggings, oh mighty prince.

Let's hope the Queen doesn't get involved.

[barbaraann]

8. Just like he tortured Diana.

I don't have an ounce of sympathy.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Well, as long as you allow the public to pay for your upkeep,

they own you, Charlie.

Suck it up and deal with it. Whiny little Nancy Boy.

[elehhhhna]

10. C & C Are a Real Love Story--but let's leave the two shallow lovers alone.

Maybe they just really, really love each other--he married the lovely but dingy Di under duress (virgin bride and all that crap--)and she wasn't exactly stable.

[Laurab]

13. She was probably quite stable

until she hooked up with him.

[elehhhhna]

14. Doesn't seem so. Unstable family history, rather poorly educated,

then thrown to the wolves at a young age...I admired her but let's be honest: she was poorly prepared for the "job", but who wouldn't be?

[barb162]

24. If she had a husband who cared for her instead of one busy

carousing with his girlfriend, maybe she would still be here today

[Fridays Child]

12. That's a very unfortunate word choice, my pampered little prince.

Nothing in your privileged life has ever even remotely approached torture.

[NashVegas]

40. Almost as Unfortunate as "I'd Like to Be Your Tampon" - But Not Quite

If nothing else, Chuckles will go down in history as the first member of British royalty to give the entire civilized world a major gross-out.

[cliss]

15. I couldn't believe it when

I read an article about Charles "every day life". This is when there were rumours about some gay-thing.

Amazing but true: Charles has a servant stand next to him and squeeze out toothpaste onto his toothbrush. He changes clothes several times a day (don't want to get messy now, do we?) and he just throws the clothes on the floor.

Within seconds, there is a servant nearby who lunges forward and picks up his messes and hangs them up. I think he has a servant who serves him his meals, and even pulls toilet paper for him.

[ironflange]

18. But does he have to pat his own royal bottom dry?

Whew, that's pretty hard work. Who says he doesn't know how his subjects have to go through day after day??

[smirkymonkey]

29. Absolutely pathetic. He needs another "servant"....

one to give him a good, swift crack upside the head at least 3 times a day.

Someone to pull toilet paper for him??? He should be tortured for real just for putting another human being through THAT pointless and humiliating task.

[The_Casual_Observer]

16. Was that her tampon or knickers that you wanted to be my prince?

While you were still married the first time, after a "fairy tale wedding".

[Mz Pip]

17. He'll get to be King

no matter what the "public" thinks. Poor baby. And Camilla will get to be HRH Camilla.

Honestly, the dude is in his 50s and he's whining about being in t he public eye. That's kind of what happens when you're going to be King someday.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[shanti]

19. oh boo hoo!

you made your bed, charles, now lie in it!

[paineinthearse]

22. Poor, poor chuckie

:nopity:

Give your wealth to the indigent and get a job.

[Daphne08]

23. Oh, I just think I'm gonna barf...

[Ellen Forradalom]

25. world's tiniest violin

People will get used to it. The fuss will die down. Get over it.

:nopity:

[bowens43]

26. People should learn to mind their own business.

Many of the posts here could be ripped right from Free Republic. I am amazed at the venom spewed here against these people. It's none of our business who Charlie and Di were boffing.

I wouldn't be surprised to see some here waving a stained dress.....pathetic.

[Benhurst]

27. If only his wish had been granted and he had become

a tampon, we wouldn't have to listen to all his whining.

[Kimber Scott]

30. He should just abdicate the throne and go off somewhere to live in private

Simple solution and it does have precedence.

[fujiyama]

31. Waaaaaa!

Get over it!

[Radical Activist]

32. I didn't know Charles was into S&M and exhibitionism

kinky guy.

[mac56]

33. Waah f*ckin' waah.

nm

[Bluebear]

34. I was tortured by his tampon love letter

Turnabout is fair play, Charles, but we're even. May you have springtime fresh days for the rest of your life, "Always"! May life bring you sweet honeyed nectar, not vinegar and water.

o.b. happy forever!

[Radical Activist]

36. That still haunts me

Of all the gross things I've heard in my life, I still can't help but think about that every time I see or hear prince charles mentioned. How embarrassing. Why oh why did the press have to report that?!

[barb162]

41. You said that well. Once that story came out, he should have

abdicated his future role in the monarchy...there's no way anyone can take him seriously after that. Dignity went out the window with that tampon tape.

[AngryAmish]

35. What is wrong with the British people?

Why do they put up with twits like this?

Paris Hilton is vapid and stupid (and kinda hot), but I don't have to foot her bill.

Every American who has responded to this thread LISTEN UP: our nation fought a war so we could ignore these people. Please do.

And every Diana defender here: She was stupid, an adulterer and lived off the dole. She should have earned a respectable living, perhaps as a cafeteria worker or through pornography. She was no saint.

[mr blur]

37. Nothing wrong with us,

that a revolution wouldn't put right.
Interestingly, I see more interest in the halfwit and his old tart here on DU than I do at home. People here are sick to death of this spoiled idiot and couldn't care less about this wedding - other than the interesting fact that's it's not legal and that Bliar and his cronies are doing their best to bend the law in order to let it happen.

Just for clarification - the whole bunch of them are stupid adulterers living off the dole.

[Piperay]

38. Charles is a gutless wimp

who let his Daddy force him into marriage with a woman he didn't love and he made everyone's life miserable because of it. Camilla is a gutless wimp too if she had had any guts she would have told Charles the he could either marry her or shove off that she was not going to hang around and be his backstreet lover...those two deserve each other. :puke:

[DemBones DemBones]

39. Oh, poor baby!

:eyes:

Charles, you're SPOILED.

:nopity: :nopity: :nopity:

[barb162]

42. LOL, LOL, LOL

[u2spirit]

43. I was thinking the opposite

I thought we were being tortured for having to hear about it all the damn time! No WMD's, Gannon gate. Nope, gotta keep up with every coming and going of the royal family.:puke: