I’m constantly in the unpopular opinion on this topic but I honestly don’t think Charles is a bad person at all. As we could see from his reaction to Prince Phillips funeral when he couldn’t hold back his emotions and was sobbing up the hill, from his public appearances and from everything we have seen from him he is a very very emotional soft hearted individual. I think the media and the public has attacked him so badly and made him out to be a worse person then he is. Yes he cheated on Diana with Camilla, but everyone else forgets that Diana had plenty of lovers who she was cheating on Charles with. Charles loved Camilla but couldn’t marry her as at the time it was unsuitable due to her reputation and her past lovers. So he tried to move on with Diana as she was what was expected of a Queen. Yes it was wrong. But we only know what the media has told us and we only know Diana’s side of the story.
If Charles is that horrible then why is William on extremely good terms with him? We only know what we have been told. None of us were there and tbh I think it’s got to a point that Charles has been painted as a villain for so long that people miss out on all the good he has done such as his foundations and his extremely good relationship with William and his family.
The difference is Charles cheated on Diana with one person who he was in love with and Diana cheated on him with many many different people.
Now Harry is using Diana for his pity party which again is just going to push the public opinion of Charles even lower.
I think the majority of people can see this farce for what it is. The more PC is attacked by his buckled son across the pond the more sympathy Charles will gain. So many of his sons lies are easily debunked and any one who can read will find out the answers. I feel desperately sorry for the man, as a parent you can only do your best. Kids don't come with a manual, you just have to do what you think is best for them. He like myself has a 50% success rate. Wills appears to be an exemplary human being, grounded, compassionate, with a back bone of steel. His brother, the runt of the litter, not so much. As William is the future king I'd say he'd done things right .
Sadly when parents divorce, children do become confused, particularly when one parent uses them as weapons. It's then up to the other parent yo actually parent them. Well that's what happened in my case.
Of course, when someone young is killed in a tragic accident, very often they become immortalised by the people they left behind. Their faults vanish and only the good points and imaginary memories remain. Williams brother was a little boy who I suspect was protected by William from his mother's true personality, hence the total inability to see her as a mere human with faults and some unpleasant traits. I'm not trying to justify his behaviour because that can never be justified. He's the lowest of the low in my opinion, his wife lower still.
My husband's first wife tragically lost her first husband in a motor bike accident. The man was a complete and utter knob, unfaithful and something of a bully and a generally unpleasant individual. She never ever got over it and as a result it destroyed her second marriage. They had no children, but, when she had children with my now husband she used to take the boys to first husband's grave every week and tell them he was their daddy really. The fact that hubby one died in awful circumstances seemed to obliterate all the awful things he had done to her in the past. My husband was compared to the first from day one and in my opinion that's wrong. Every Christmas they had to have his parents up, every holiday they went on, his parents had to go too...
By not dealing with his death, refusing counselling, antidepressants or any kind of help she destroyed herself and her second marriage. Also the boys have serious issues but we have managed to get them to have counselling and things are easier for them it will take a long time for them I suspect because it's a complex issue.
Sadly she died of Multiple System Atrophy a very cruel illness which I firmly believe was a result of her not processing any of her grief for over twenty years.
I see the similarities between my stepsons and William and his brother. The elder has dealt with things a lot quicker than the younger one who is still angry
