Prince Charles's penchant for pedophiles
Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2018 12:28 pm
I mean what's up with that? Is he just susceptible to flattery and yes men or does his choice of confidantes reflect his own predilections in some way?
Jeff posted this column on Facebook, and I just remembered that I wondered already in the case of Jimmy Savile about how extremely close they apparently were and why no more of a fuss was created. Is it really believable that he had no idea about what that cigar-munching bastard was up to...?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... her-in-law
Jeff posted this column on Facebook, and I just remembered that I wondered already in the case of Jimmy Savile about how extremely close they apparently were and why no more of a fuss was created. Is it really believable that he had no idea about what that cigar-munching bastard was up to...?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... her-in-law
So long as fresh Markle dramas allow the portrayal of Charles and his family as comparatively reliable, it’s possible the prince’s habit of confiding in men – Laurens van der Post and Jimmy Savile having preceded Ball – who struck others as questionable and repellent, will, once again, be forgotten. Or, at least, be attributed to bad luck. Or, to take a more Bracknellish line – “to befriend two paedophiles, your royal highness, may be regarded as a misfortune; to befriend three…” – to carelessness. As opposed to indicating a self-regard so fathomless as to leave the heir to the throne, surrounded by his habitually grovelling court, vulnerable to any appropriately qualified sycophant.
What would that tell us about Charles’s fitness to inherit? Even Jonathan Dimbleby, in his doting 1994 biography, suggests that a less susceptible reader than the prince might have gathered, from van der Post’s insinuating twaddle, that this shameless charlatan was also “a flatterer and a self-publicist”.
The seer (reportedly still revered by Charles) was discovered, after his death, to have had sex with, that is, raped and then impregnated, a 14-year-old girl who had been entrusted to his care. This is not to suggest that Charles should have somehow detected – where, similarly, did none of Mrs Thatcher, BBC executives and any number of Ball’s devout co-workers – that his favourites were also sex offenders.