Prince Charles’ diary entries on the Philippines
February 23, 2006An irate member of Prince Charles staff recently released parts of the Prince’s diary to the press.
After leaving Hong Kong, the prince visited the Philippines. He describes Manila as “an awful, smelly polluted harbor absolutely clogged with filth and rubbish.”
But he also states: “The Philippines were incredibly friendly and warm-hearted and pleased to see the British.”
The reader will recall that Prince Charles travelled via his yacht Britannia from HK to Manila after the 1997 handover ceremonies. I actually like his candid thoughts better.
Here’s what he does in support of the Dalai Lama and the situation in Tibet:
Mark Bolland, a former aide, told the court on Tuesday that the prince saw himself as a “dissident” and had boycotted a 1999 Chinese Embassy banquet out of respect for Tibet’s spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
Both Charles’ lawyer and current private secretary, Michael Peat, have denied the prince boycotted the banquet. Bolland worked for the prince for six years and resigned in 2002 amid media reports of a clash with Peat.
And here’s what he thinks of the Chinese and the HK handover:
“All the locals were being outwardly thoroughly optimistic about the immediate future but in the background was the sneaking worry about creeping corruption and the gradual undermining of Hong Kong’s greatest strength — the rule of law,” he wrote.
“Apparently in China itself the army is heavily involved in pretty corrupt business practice, so one can only hope they are confined to barracks in Hong Kong.”
One wonders why doesn’t express himself more openly?
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