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I think the Prince of Wales is one of the best dressed man in the world but his good taste is not innate. At Cambridge he wanted a suit with horizontal stripes but was dissuaded by his tailor.
There are some English people who say they have nothing against the royal family as people (how could they have?) - it's the idea of a hereditary unelected monarchy that they hate. I, on the other hand, am not interested in the members of the royal family , only in the institution, in the idea of inheritance, a line that goes back to King Edgar and before that to the men in skins who founded Wessex. But I make an exception for the Prince of Wales, whom I love to pieces. He is, I suppose, the Grand Young Fogey, fussing over traditional architecture and the countryside and wanting to reintroduce mutton to England's tables. Not by coincidence does he love Romania so much as do many foreigners who feel out of place in the modern world. Some have even suggested he should be made King of Romania but Romania has a perfectly good king already.
The Prince is however a collateral descendent of Vlad Tepes as well as a direct descendent of, among many other illustrious men, the Prophet Mahomet.
He is one of the best dressed men ever. I'm glad you "love him to pieces". So do I. I met him once in Lowell, Massachusetts. In 1989,
ReplyDeleteI think. He looked scrubbed by a stiff brush. He
was the epitome of a prince. He's great. He was
on an architecture and urban renewal study.