Prince Charles and His Sons

[jun5]

from corbis

 

[jun5]

from corbis

 

[jun5]

Charles and the boys

 

[wlb825]

various pics

 

[jun5]

from corbis

 

[Dennism]

PRINCE CHARLES AND PRINCE WILLIAM SKIING IN KLOSTERS, SWITZERLAND - 28 MAR 2004

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[micas]

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Kiss

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[samitude]

Christmas Card 2004

Here's a picture from FotoMarktPlatz of Prince Charles and his two sons that is being used for there Christmas card this year. This picture was taken by Mario Testino.

http://meta2.fotomarktplatz.org/cgi-bin/meta/showLayoutImage.pl?Kennung=Meta48&url=http://bilddatenbank.dpa.de/dclsite/app/dcl_dpaweb/dpa_loadapi.php3theparampath=/report/src//dpa/j2004/m12/t13/037401_4.jff

 

[Ennyllorac]

Despite what ever happened with Charles and Diana, one can see that Charles has always had a good relationship with his children. I applaud him and Diana.

 

[micas]

Princes Volunteer

Ok, i don't now were post this pic and i imagine that probably more pics gona come so... i resolve open a thread.

Is a god gester from the both.


Prince William and Prince Harry pack items bound for the Maldives at a Red Cross depot on January 7, 2005 in Warmley, England.

 

[susan alicia]

Ok, i don't now were post this pic and i imagine that probably more pics gona come so... i resolve open a thread.

Is a god gester from the both.


Prince William and Prince Harry pack items bound for the Maldives at a Red Cross depot on January 7, 2005 in Warmley, England.

Just saw them on the bbc news and in contrast: I remember thinking, when I say the picture of Felipe of spain shaking hands with laetizia, cleaning oil from the spanish shores, why was he not there cleaning too, even if only for a few hours, to show his total outrage of the enviromental disaster that had happened to his country.

 

[micas]

Some more pics. It semes they work very well...well at least they do something util.

 

[micas]

The rest of the pics...

 

[micas]

A artical from Hello!7 JANUARY 2005
Clutching a packet of loo paper, Prince William showed that he was very much a hands-on royal as he and his brother Harry helped process relief supplies destined for the tsunami-ravaged Maldives at a Red Cross depot on Friday.

Having helped pack the supplies into boxes, the St Andrews student also got to test a skill he’s probably had little cause to call upon in the past – that of palette-shunting. The Queen's elder grandson was snapped manoeuvring palettes piled high with sealed cartons of relief material in and out of the Bristol warehouse.

 

[kwanfan]

Good for the princes for helping out!

 

[Elsie]

The sad thing was it was nothing more than a PR stunt. Can't they do anything without telling the press first? If they had simply registered to volunteered and than arrived to work I would think of it better. But no Charles' spin docter had to first phone the newspapers to ask how it would go down, promise an interview and photos - and then only would they do it. Sad, using a disaster for PR.

 

[Alisa]

I agree that it is sad in a way that they are taking advantage of the need for relief efforts to boost their publicity. I say this more so for Harry than William.

 

[Reina]

Well I see it as a way of letting the press have some pics so in return they will respect the princes privacy

 

[micas]

Some pics from CORBIS!

 

[Ennyllorac]

You just can't win...If they did it quietly, no one would find out and then there would be bickering that the princes are lazy and good for nothing. If they do announce it it is just for publicity.

On the positive side, even if it is for their own good press, it is good publicity for the relief effort and may get even more people to help out.

 

[Britters]

You just can win...If they did it quietly, no one would find out and then there would be bickering that the princes are lazy and good for nothing. If they do announce it it is just for publicity.

On the positive side, even if it is for their own good press, it is good publicity for the relief effort and may get even more people to help out.

I agree! There is an article out today (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2005002487,00.html) about how the British public is "outraged" by the Royal family's lack of presence in the time of the disaster. Had William and Harry gone quietly and volunteered and done the work people would have been outraged that the two princes were out enjoying themselves when people were suffering in other countries, much like the outrage that people expressed in not seeing Crown Princess Victoria for an extended amount of time following the Tsunami, and yet I see no one claiming it's a horrible PR stunt when she arrived just in time to look incredibly upset at when the first coffins arrived in Sweden. (I'm not saying that CP Victoria's presence was a PR coupe-just trying to make a point!) No one claimed that Madeleine and Carl Philip's personal monetary donations and apperance on the televised fund raiser were nothing more the PR stunts- why is that? What's the difference? No one knows for sure that William and Harry didn't chose to do this because they wanted to so why not give them the benefit of the doubt in the fact that they actually went out and did something useful, something more than many Royals across Europe and even in their own family did-they helped, they worked hard, and honestly to help those who are suffering.

 

[Elspeth]

You just can win...If they did it quietly, no one would find out and then there would be bickering that the princes are lazy and good for nothing. If they do announce it it is just for publicity.

Exactly. And if they tried to get involved, there'd also be criticism that they were taking precious resources away from the professionals by being around and getting in the way. The Queen made a statement about the disaster on the day it happened, which is more than some other western heads of state managed to do.

 

[Anna_R]

More pictures from ABACA


http://www.abacausa.com/ximagi/search.php?u=&message=Event:+Royal%20Support%20for%20Relief%20Efforts%20-%20Bristol&assignment_id=15814

 

[RoseMary]

I think the Princes did this out of the goodness of their hearts. Say what you like about their mother but she did teach them compassion for others.

I think seeing them actually do something instead of just handing money is helpful and shows that they really do care.

 

[Wilton]

I find both princes refreshingly normal given that instead of having two parents, they have tens of thousands opinionating on their every move.

 

[grecka]

I have a question to ask: do you think Prince Charles has neglected his duties as a father? I read a story that implied exactly that, but I'm not sure what to believe.

 

[Elspeth]

Well, when Diana was alive, her friends in the press were pushing the "Charles is a bad father" line for all they were worth. It seems to have become a bit less prevalent since then, but with the boys at Eton and the press staying away from them, nobody was really reporting anything.

"Charles is a bad father; what would Diana think???" is the sort of thing that's going to sell papers, so it's the sort of thing we're going to see written about. Whether it's true or not.

 

[Britters]

I think he's actually a very loving and caring father, and always has been, but Diana had a way of manipulating the press and it made it look like he wasn't.

I do however think he is much to easy on both boys and needs to take more of a stand in that sense.

 

[kinneret5764]

I think he's actually a very loving and caring father, and always has been, but Diana had a way of manipulating the press and it made it look like he wasn't.

I do however think he is much to easy on both boys and needs to take more of a stand in that sense.

From the way the boys have been behaving, I would think he is an absentee father. I'm shocked that Charles did not feel it necessary to either leave his vacation to speak with Harry in person or summon Harry to Balmoral in Scotland where he and Camilla have been spending time. I think the general consensus is that after Diana died, the boys have been raising themselves - without strong parental guidance. This is a recipe for disaster.

 

[Britters]

The way both boy speak of their father and the way "Royal Insiders" speak of the three it seems that Charles has been a great father-or at least that's what I'm basing my information off of...

As far as him coming home from his vacation, or summoning Harry to him, my thought's are these... Harry is an adult he is 20 years old and fully capable of making his own decisions. There is no reason while Charles, as a parent should have to end his own vacation, to scold his adult son. No other parent is truly responsible for punishing or scolding or changing their children's actions once they are full grown adults. This was Harry's decision and he should have to receive the "wrath" of the public. When Harry was caught up in the whole drug scandal, it was right for Charles to step in and do something, had he not I would say he was an absentee parent and a pushover. This however is completely different. Harry needs to learn to be responsible for his own actions, and need to learn that there are consequences-that his father and the various advisors can't just sweep things under a rug with the same old excuse, "Poor little Harry has had a rough life. It's hard living in the spotlight." There are hundreds of thousands of people who live in the spotlight daily.