They’ve made Prince Charles’ letters public. They should make mine public. Though they’d kind’a look a bit “… and how dare you ****** do that with a ***** ***** aardvark you ****** ****** ****** piece of ******…” to make them fit for public consumption. And they’d lose context.

But its a good thing to let the world know the type of man who may, possibly, probably, potentially, sometime, somehow, for some time, become king. Maybe. Though publishing the letters after a court wrangle using the ‘freedom of information act’ is not quite like Henry Root but it definitely gives a greater insight into the Prince.

He wrote to Tony Blair about the army in Iraq, he wrote about farming, about health, about school dinners, alternative medicine and all manner of things close to his heart. And what it shows is that he really is a decent and deeply caring person. With a hell of a lot of time on his hands to interfere. And sufficient funds to buy ink in which to scrawl his missives.

His occasional plummet into the world of the totally misguided is forgivable. His requests for ‘alternative medicines’ to be available through the Health Service is just so much tree-huggery. Everyone knows that homeopathy is 6 parts hope, 3 parts desperation and 1 part placebo. We’re all aware that ‘genetic modification’ of farming is not really the Devil’s work but a means to production and quality otherwise unattainable. And will NOT result in 20,000 clones of Nicola Sturgeon running round in little red dresses making everyone vomit.

Charles cares, so he writes to MPs. And PMs. As loads of people do. The only difference is: he’s Prince Charles and we’re not. And that’s good in that we don’t have to sleep with Camilla every night or wear shit-loads of medals every time we go out for dinner, but not so good in that we get perfunctory replies from 5th grade under-minions placating our concerns and being lodged foreverafter in the ‘nutter file’ whereas Charlie, perhaps in some ways a bona fide nutter, gets a handwritten note from the nation’s most powerful men. And women. (I forgot for a moment that they can vote now). They have to at least listen to Charles. Which is only odd because he can’t vote for them; he’s not allowed that right. Only us plebs get that.

And there’s the big question. Is Charles right to write? Because they ‘have’ to at least pay him attention, which is translated by some as ‘applying pressure’. And since Parliament was formed, the monarchy have no executive power. Nor can they be political. Though pretty safe to say, if they were, they’d definitely vote Conservative. Maybe UKIP at a pinch. So is Charles in some way abusing his position in somehow ‘forcing’ his views on people too intimidated not to at least hear them, or is he just being a devil’s advocate and using his position for the good of mankind?

If only he was a Spurs fan it wouldn’t be such a big decision to make.

Happy Thursday

A xxxx