# Britons; what are you expecting when Charles becomes King?

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**Created:** [January 2, 2022, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britons-what-are-you-expecting-when-charles-becomes-king/957061 "2022-01-02T02:19:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britons-what-are-you-expecting-when-charles-becomes-king/957061/322 "2022-06-27T16:15:18Z")

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> [@Martin\_Hyde](#):
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> Gwyneth Paltrow has been making millions of dollars on alternative medicine for years now (which is more than you can say of Charles, who doesn’t run any alternative medicine businesses AFAIK.)

Charles _is_ in the supplement business, and his company has been [cited for deceptive claims](https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/mar/21/prince-charles-duchy-originals) about a “detox” product.

“Prince Charles’s Duchy Originals company has been forced to amend a campaign promoting two herbal medicines after regulators said healing claims on the firm’s website were misleading.”

“Advertisements for Duchy Herbals Echina-Relief Tincture and Duchy Herbals Hyperi-Lift Tincture, which cost £10 per bottle, appeared on the company’s website in January, prompting a complaint from a member of the public who questioned the lack of scientific evidence for the products.”

“After seven weeks of deliberation the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, the licensing body responsible for assessing herbal medicines for safety, upheld the complaint prompting the company to change the wording of the adverts and remove the previous claims.”

I’m unaware of any other royal who’s gotten into the herbal drug business _and_ secretly lobbied the government to thwart regulation of such products.

Any further comments about the quality of your posts are best suited to [another thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pit-thread-for-martin-hyde/965045/871).

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