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It was shortly after the spectacular divorce.
To Jennie Bond, who was a long-time royal correspondent for the BBC, Diana confided that her ex-husband did not have the shoulders of a monarch.
“
I still believe that he is not made to be king
, she had told the journalist,
he already has enough problems as Prince of Wales!
According to her, Charles would have been happier “
living in Tuscany, painting landscapes, or studying architecture
”.
The Princess of Wales added: "
He's stuck in a rut.
Just look at his program… He's doing exactly the same kind of stuff as ten years ago.
»
Looking back, Jennie Bond thinks that, on this register, Diana was wrong.
"
It was precisely by fighting for often old-fashioned causes - sometimes in the face of open ridicule - that Charles ended up proving that he was a man ahead of his time
," she wrote in the
Telegraph
.
From his sometimes uncomfortable ruts, he tackled…
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