Friday, November 18, 2005
Yikes
You remember Prince Charles, right? Heir to the British throne who often complains he isn't taken or listened to seriously enough? Gee, I wonder why. It seems he's suing the Daily Mail for breach of privacy and what he objects to is having his description of Chinese diplomats during the 1997 hand-over of Hong Kong to China publicized. (Among other things, he wrote that "President (Jiang Zemin) detached himself from the group of appalling old waxworks who accompanied him and took his place at the lectern". And he's not saying he didn't write it; he's objecting to the breach of privacy.) Given that he's half of the Diana/Charles years-long mess it's impossible to believe his reaction. Would someone who cherishes the privacy of his historical record of the event snidely and belittlingly call it "The Handover of Hong Kong - or 'The Great Chinese Takeaway'" and then publish and circulate it to dozens of relatives, friends, political contacts and members of his household? How could he use a word like "waxworks" to describe a country's leaders and not expect someone to fall all over themselves getting it out there? He lives in the land of the ultra-tabloid British press, after all. And let's not forget he's the guy with the grossest so-called romantic quip in modern times, the taped phone calls wherein he told Camilla where and what he wanted to be. How nuts is the guy? Could he really be king one day?
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