“Not all the water in the rough rude sea/Can wash the balm from an anointed king,” Shakespeare has Richard II claim. No figure in British public life has been as mocked, pilloried and abused as Charles. His attempts to publicise the benefits of eating mutton were less blockbuster than his televised admission, in 1994, of adultery. He’s compared himself to a tampon, and been likened to Arjuna, the mythic hero of the Bhagavad Gita. He’s been called a dabbler and a meddler, a decent watercolourist and an expert plantsman. Yet King Charles, even stacked alongside the other Windsors, really is not most people. It took several decades for him to work this problem out, when, for most people, a visit to a solicitor, a court fee and six months of wrangling might have solved the issue. The King loved one woman, then married another. The story of his first affair with Camilla Parker Bowles is well known. A few months ago I realised that the King of the United Kingdom was having another affair.
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