Not for the likes of us
Not since a young Peter Phillips said to his nanny from the deck of the Royal yacht, 'look at all the poor people waving at us' have I seen such a touching example of the Royal Family's common touch as we see in today's Daily Telegraph.The memo was in response to a suggestion by Ms Day that personal assistants with university degrees should be given the opportunity to train to become private secretaries.
The prince [of Wales] blames the education system for making people "think they can all be pop stars".
In the memo, the prince wrote: "What is wrong with everyone nowadays? Why do they all seem to think they are qualified to do things far beyond their technical capabilities?
"This is the result of social utopianism which believes humanity can be genetically and socially engineered to contradict the lessons of history."
Charles is of course right. You should stick to what you are qualified in, unless you received a 2:2 in history on the strength of a B at A-Level in history and a C in French, when you can lecture on anything you like, such as architecture, education, reincarnation...
Update: As Chris Brooke has noted before that the Prince of Wales has said he will emigrate to Switzerland if fox-hunting is banned, so the way things are going we should be expecting an announcement from Clarence House in the next few months. Readers who are hoping that this means he will not be our next Monarch will be disappointed at my next relevation -- I spoke to someone at the Department of Constitutional Affairs who says there is no law that the King has to live in the British Isles, or even the Commonwealth.
posted by Matthew @ 11/17/2004 01:42:00 PM
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