I'm a little bit with t #5 on it. Can you name a better monarch?
Not clear to me what the contempt for Chaz is about. I know very little about him. But I gather he studies, prepares for meetings so he can show interest in those he's meeting. It's effortless rhetoric to say the Brit royals do "nothing". The reality is more abrasive for them.
A decade ago or so I saw Chaz in a full scale mock-up of a community designed / intended for energy efficient living, but without being crammed into a high-rise apartment building. If you'll pardon me extrapolating from a single data point, this seems to show Charles has some interest in humanity, beyond his own lifetime.
The model village I saw him in looked charming, nearly picturesque. And it addresses something I haven't read much alarm about lately, the "population explosion".
One of the things I find most charming about Charles: between Camilla and Diana, seems to me Diana was the "hotter chick" (no disrespect intended). Charles did his duty, continued the royal bloodline. But his heart was obviously with Camilla. It's a scant glimpse into personality. But that glimpse indicates to me by that criterion Charles isn't as superficial as I am. Good for him.
I've got no "skin in the game" mm #8. For U.S. citizens it's an issue about as important to the vital interests of humanity as how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
But for reasons not clear to me I sense in myself a slight residue of hope that the casual resentment I've found of those in the monarchy is merely the gloss of modest pride. In any case, hardly anything worth getting worked up about.
Usage Note: Traditional usage holds that we are
jealous when we fear losing something that is important to us and
envious when we desire that which someone else has.
The American Heritage Dictionary entry: jealous
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