Prince of Wales current events 10: October 2008 to October 2009

[Marsel]

Prince Charles recalls cadet days of polishing boots, remarking: 'I still bear the scars'

The Prince of Wales reminisced about his time cleaning boots as a cadet on a visit to a school, joking "I think I still bear the scars".

While at the school, the Prince also announced a new Welsh youth initiative called Young Dragons, under which all of the uniformed youth organisations in Wales are joining forces. He said the initiative was born out of a conversation he had with North Wales Chief Constable Richard Brunstrom on the Royal Train a year ago.

"I must say it's taken me 25 years or more to get to this point. It always seemed to me an awful lot of wasted potential and human assets were also being wasted here. So many young people respond to this opportunity, particularly at that stage in life where so often it seems you need a bit of challenge and adventure," the Prince said.

"Long ago when I was young I joined the Coastguard, can you believe it? When I was at school in Scotland. In those days we would practice the entire drill for rescuing people on the cliffs and man a watch tower on the cliffs up on the Moray Firth hoping an aircraft carrier would run aground so we could go to a rescue."

I never knew Prince Charles had joined the Coastguard.
His new Youth Initiative sounds promising (as do most of his projects, actually).

[Skydragon]

Gordonstoun has had it's own fire brigade, coastguard station and mountain rescue team for many, many years.
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The Prince of Wales has made a donation to two charities helping farmers affected by the collapse of the Dairy Farmers of Britain.
Dairy Farmers of Britain recently went into receivership, leaving many small farmers facing severe financial hardship as they struggle to find a company to collect and pay for their milk. Others have not been paid for milk they have supplied.

The Prince of Wales - HRH donates money to charity to help dairy farmers in hardship

[Skydragon]

WELSH nationalists are organising a march to commemorate the deaths of two men said to have planned to blow up the royal train before the investiture of Prince Charles in 1969

WalesOnline - News - Wales News - ‘Why not have a march for the al-Qaeda terrorists?’

[Skydragon]

Town Mayor Hywel Roberts said the Town Council wrote to him last year inviting him to visit in 2009.
Mr Roberts said: “Because of his busy schedule he was not able to fit in a visit” adding that there were no plans for any celebrations to mark the anniversary in the town

Daily Post North Wales - News - North Wales News - Prince Charles snubs Caernarfon visit

A high street supermarket chain will take over 700 acres of a Scottish stately home saved for the nation by Prince Charles.
Morrisons is to set up a sustainable research farm at Dumfries House near Cumnock in Ayrshire and Charles, the Duke of Rothesay, is said to be "delighted" by the development


Supermarket To Farm On Estate Saved By Prince (from The Herald )

[Skydragon]

A YOUNG girl who asked for Prince Charles’ help to save Turton Tower was honoured in a special ceremony in the grounds of the historic building

Special ceremony for Tower campaigner (From The Bolton News)

[lumutqueen]

How beautifully sweet that sounds. Nathalie must have been incredible proud when she recieved the return letter from the Prince.

[Skydragon]

More than half of people in Wales support the monarchy and value the role of the Prince of Wales, a survey for BBC Wales suggests

BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | Monarchy backed by 59% in Wales

[Skydragon]

The Prince of Wales says he is heartbroken by the death in Afghanistan of a colonel in his Welsh Guards regiment.


UK Soldiers Die In Afghanistan: Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe And Trooper Joshua Hammond Killed | UK News | Sky News

The most senior British officer to be killed in action in Afghanistan was a man well known to Prince Charles, it emerged last night

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/...ath.5426030.jp

The Prince of Wales said that he was "mortified" by the death of Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, the most senior British officer killed in Afghanistan.

Prince Charles 'mortified' by death of Rupert Thorneloe in Helmand - Times Online

[Marsel]

How sad.
Rest in peace, Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe. You join the ranks of the British heroes, who gave their lives for their country.

[Skydragon]

Veteran BBC broadcaster David Dimbleby will this week deliver what appears to be a premeditated snub to the Prince of Wales

Dimbleby won't be at Prince Charles's lecture as broadcaster misses first speech in 33 years | Mail Online

[Skydragon]

FOR the past 40 years he’s been known as Prince of Wales, but according to a rash of bizarre online conspiracy theories, Charles has a new identity – the Prince of Darkness


http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wa...1466-24075085/

[lumutqueen]

Well thats...interesting to say the least. Very odd to link the Prince of Wales to Satan.

[BellaFay]

Originally Posted by lumutqueen

Well thats...interesting to say the least. Very odd to link the Prince of Wales to Satan.

I remeber coming across by accident on the web in the late 1990s the same bizarre linking of the Prince's Welsh Dragon & his name to the number of the Antichrist. Then it was being put about by an American who was quite obviously of a white racist persuasion and was particularly agitated by the Prince's pro-UN and pro-ethnic-minority views.

[Skydragon]

GARDENERS from Duffield spent three years waiting for an invitation to Prince Charles' garden.

Three-year wait: but well worth it - Belper Today

Prince Charles is to host a meeting of some of the world's leading pension funds as part of efforts to encourage the adoption of greener investment criteria.

Prince Charles is worried about pensions - 06 Jul 2009 - BusinessGreen.com

[iceflower]

Prince Charles, Prince of Wales meets comedian Omid Djahli during
a Summer reception where the Prince presented the Business in
the Community Awards for Excellence in the gardens at Clarence
House London, England - 06.07.09


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[iceflower]

Prince Charles addresses civil servants at civilservice LIVE
a 3 day event which civil servants can attend keynote
adresses, workshops forums and exhibitor stands at Olympia,
London. Tuesday July 07, 2009

Pic 2 is great


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[Skydragon]

PRINCE CHARLES snubbed the chance to be at the start of The Ashes in Cardiff today.

The Prince of Wales is patron of Glamorgan County Cricket Club who are hosting the First Test

Charles in Test snub | The Sun |Sport|Cricket

[Warren]

quote from the above link:
"...and yet he cannot give half a day of his time...to come to Cardiff by helicopter."

An alternate headline:
"Charles snubs taxpayers - takes helicopter to watch cricket!"

Sometimes you just can't win.

[Skydragon]

Although many of us are too inversely snooty to admit it, Prince Charles is a thinker far ahead of his time

Mark Lynas: It's never very comfortable to be ahead of your time - Commentators, Opinion - The Independent

His royal lifestyle leads to accusations of hypocrisy, yet his latest carbon statement shows a 30 per cent emissions reduction since 2007

He has a reputation as one of England's most brutal tyrants, but Henry VIII, according to Prince Charles, was actually an environmental crusader with a keen interest in architecture

Henry VIII was just like me, says Prince Charles | Mail Online

[iceflower]

Former Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant receives his CBE
from Britain's Prince Charles during the investiture ceremony
at Buckingham Palace in London Friday July 10, 2009.


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