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Not at all "like the rest of us".

  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prince-charles-is-turning-65--and-still-awaiting-his-key-job-is-he-a-guiding-light-for-the-postretirement-work-era-8937573.html  Prince Charles at 65: A portfolio of jobs and no plans to retire, so he's just like the rest of us The Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall   The headline reads: " .....so he's just like the rest of us". Yes of course he is. He and "Parker Bowles" regularly visit the Kensington Foodbank to get their weekly rations and they frequently switch energy suppliers in the naive belief that they might get a better deal from another cartel member. Every 4 weeks, when his pension is paid into which ever bank account he has nominated for that purpose, he takes his "Casio" calculator and works out to the nearest penny, whether he and the Mrs. can afford to have that pound of meat for a liver and bacon treat they have been thinking about, or whether that spar...

Seeing through rose coloured glasses.

  http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/03/13/prince-charles-camilla-syria_n_2866680.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-impact Prince Charles And Camilla Visit Syrian Refugee Camps In Jordan Charles and Camilla at King Abdullah Park camp Charles with Syrian refugee children A sanitised visit to the King Abdullah Park camp is hardly likely to give Charles and his wife any real   understanding of what a "refugee camp" usually is. Once again royals are given a view of the world from inside a carefully constructed bubble, rather like the "Gents" sign on the public toilets in the railway station being covered up so that the passenger on the train is not embarrassed as the Royal Express thunders through. Perhaps the couple should have been taken to the Zaatari refugee camp or even the Bashabsheh camp, just two of the many camps established in Jordon for refugees from Syria.   Syrian refugee children at the Zaatari camp Al Bashab...