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| Prince Charles |
Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee celebrations, despite
all the glitter and festivities, have cast this ghoulish question to the minds
of some. When will the Queen die? And
this leads to a second question: Will the
government allow Prince Charles, an ill-informed and unrestrained mind, to
succeed as King? And if ever they allow the prince to succeed, until how
long will they let him rule?
In his May 20 column in The Observer, journalist Nick Cohen labels
Charles both as a “rogue and a fool,” unfit to rule, let alone reign, thanks to
his meddlesome nature when it comes to public policies, pestering with
politicians every now and again, demanding to have a say in everything, from
education and environment to fighting foot and mouth disease and banning
foxhunting.
Many believe that the prince’s moves were a result of
boredom of having to wait for too long before he finds himself thrusted upon
wearing a crown that has shrunk in power and rusted in time. But what they do
not understand, writes Cohen, is that nothing could stop Charles III from
interfering, as much as he is unstoppable right now as Prince of Wales.
His behavior and way of thinking could be attributed decades
ago. “From his mentor, the fraudulent South African anthropologist Laurens van
der Post,” writes Cohen, the prince became a student of philosophical
traditionalism, “the belief that all religions contain the same perennial
truths; and that the human race alienated itself from this ancient wisdom when
it discovered the scientific method. Hence, his loathing for technologies that
might feed the world, his embrace of the Saudi royal family, his support for
reactionary versions of Islam and Buddhism, his strange desire to be a defender
of all faiths and, above all, his preference for medicines that don't work over
medicines that do.”
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee might silence all republican
sentiments. But that won’t last long. Cohen foresees Charles as “the best
advert the republican cause has had since Charles I.”
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