[Duchess]

correct me if i'm wrong but as monarch isn't he going to be the ceremonial head of the armed forces? and if this is the case, shouldn't he have some training so that he knows what he's talking about when he talks to armed forces members? as for never seeing action, there are thousands of former armed forces member, all over the world who trained but never saw action...are they a waste of tax payer money as well? one day he will have to address soldiers and they will have far more respect for him for having gone through the training that they did even though he never went to the front line. some day, he will visit injured soldiers and that visit will work wonders for the morale of many of them and then all that training will completely worth every penny it cost to train him.

His visit to the Royal Marsden Hospital may not make him a saint but i'm sure it lifted the spirits of a lot of people. here is one of those times that we criticize him for not doing anything and then when he does something it's not enough. so he didn't rush down there but he went. he may not have gone down there of his own volition but maybe he did...we don't know.