Re your second point-- yeah, that’s what I mean. Like this business with the pen recently. Holy shit, I’ve been known to throw annoying objects at the wall and leave a dent. But the world press will shine a light on whatever obnoxious human trait he displays. Of course, that applies to most celebrities, but he strikes me as someone who would just as soon not be in the public eye so much.
“I declare before you all that my whole life whether it be long or short shall be devoted to your service and the service of our great imperial family to which we all belong.” - Princess Elizabeth, age 21
The Queen’s sense of duty and responsibility long preceded anything that Charles ever did. Her commitment was a response to the mess that her uncle, the Duke of Windsor, made of his life and her father’s.
It’s Pakistani thank you very much.
Hmm. It almost looks like another Charles… DeGaulle.
Seeing as he wasn’t born then…
The Koh e Noor was taken by an Irishman and the same was ratified by a Scot.
Dupe.
I once threw my Chaucer text against the wall and broke the spine.
This stuff is cool, but the best is hella expensive. Sigh
Fortunately since he was already dead, he didn’t feel it. 
I’ll be here all week, folks!
I want a Chaucer!
Does he wash windows?
Mine didn’t. Lazy bastard.
I suspect it remains to be seen whether or not her reign will be seen as unique or not.
I can’t get over the fact that he travels with his own toilet seat and has his staff iron his shoelaces.
The shoelace thing is really, really, bizarre.
Didn’t his mother used to travel with her own coffin in case she died overseas?
I believe I’ve heard that Madonna takes along her own toilet seat as well. I think it’s not all that uncommon. For one thing, they don’t want to leave weird “souvenirs” everywhere they go.
Ricky Gervais tells a story about his dad being assigned to build an entirely new restroom just for the queen to use on a particular visit somewhere in his town. He was disappointed that she didn’t need it during her visit.
A ‘fact’ he himself has denied.
If you were a king, would you not?
A bit like the Imperial Crown of India. There have been suggestions that it be given to some Indian authority, but who exactly.
My late father told us how they spent several thousand redecorating and soundproofing the female lavatory at the Sedgewick Centre in eastern London before Princess Alexandra’s visit so that the assembled dignitaries outside wouldn’t hear the sound of the royal tinkle.