On a next level level. I cannot understand how someone is not embarrassed about himself dropping statemtns such as Netanjahu will hear Prince William when he said the fighting should stop...I just can't grap it.
In the end of the day The Windsors are head of a representative Monarchy. In an absolute one they'd order the military to enforce the "should" part of the fighting. These days they are basically the head diplomats and there was a major change in education introduced by Lady Diana.
Queen Elizabeth was the last truly Victorian Times educated Royal, which also explains her difficult role in the Irish Troubles. The ER stands for Emperium Romanum and her Victorian education was all about the glory of the biggest Empire the world ever saw, sadly from no Travellers perspective being glad everytime he jumps of a ship someone will understand English. At least, if he speaks slowley and drops the Cogney for a moment, but with some gratitude to Rule Britania coming from a past time that will not come back: Pre-Industrialisation.
Kolonialism was not all bad as long it was based on good trade. The Slave Industry was the dark side of it and Britain was no major player. Someone else was...hiring assholes everwhere. London had no Slaves, the Confederate States had.
The Victorian in the education also lead to Charles being quite a weirdo with his strictness and stiffness in especially the 60ies when the given system failed to negotiate peacefully a new contract of society. The MODs were the first generation that earned more than collage students by a new form of job: The Officer worker. MODs were quite party crazy, had a lot of money to spend on clothing and art exploded, but the system was stiff and Ireland faced an incredible recession answered with was felt as surpression from the authority. Again, The Stewards were Irish, there is no 800 years of conflict, except to create conflict.
The partys both sons of Charles were able to attend were hard to get from a Queen educated by a school dating back hundreds of years, having glamerous events to socialise also with commons. but that lacked reform and adjustement to modernity even so everyone was sure that the worst was overcome, by exactly sticking to these old principles.
This being said, a future King, no matter if Charly the Stiff Upperlip or Willy the Casual Nice, is made to create the head diplomat of state....every bad news and schandal is realy realy bad as such, because diplomacy is based on good reputation and trust of word.
They are no Knights. Every misstep, broken nose and satisfied pussy adds credit to a Knight read to kill any bandit, if there is a good reason....
But Knights are gone aren't they, like Kings only represent these days.
Some old needs to be kept at least in its core.
PS: Every family has the weirdo or black sheep. In the family of militants that would be us Provos, in the family of the Hannoverans; I think it is the Windsors.....;-)
The role of the brother is a constant topic and he is called the spare tyre, basically. Some are realy good in changing the meaning of very old words. I am Anglophile, by the way.
First of all, two ain a lot and in the past, before the steam machine, they would have adopted a few more considering that Royal is a family business and that family business is about ruling several million humans for their prosperity in all meand neccessary. Remeber the bad jokes about Sir Mountbatten and a table?Well, I guess she liked it and I am sure your mum is still jelous looking at you.
No one, except the close family, understands the core principles of education beyond the standard collage eduction at University, but we can be sure that modern technologies and information anayltics are a struggle to add to a system based on trusted ears within society.
The word of a Whore can be more important than of a Bishop and a Tradesmen be more important than a Lord, but in times in which the horseback decided the speed of news spreading and therefore everyone thought twice what to send around the selection was way easier. Just watch "The Name of the Rose" how that all went down before the Telegraphic Wire.
A future King's brother is no spare, he came after and there he stands: In the back keeping where the eyes ain looking clear taking all that comes there away of the spine. Kings don't bend to anyone challenging them, Knights get into anyones blood challenging them and do bend.
It might have been afterall a good move to move to the USA instead of being too much of a player in London. It might be the end of The Windsors deviding that family. It might be a start for a different education for a modern world.
I know I don't know.
