Over his years of unfashionable advocacy, Prince Charles has made some influential enemies It is easy to poke fun at his earnestness. Combined with the failure of his marriage, this has helped to create a negative image But negativity has now reached new depths. The Prince's Trust, the one area of his activities which has had insufficient publicity, has done remarkable work in encouraging entrepreneurship among racial minorities in the inner cities. The trust has an outstanding record in rebuilding self-esteem among those who had lost it and instilling the work ethic in those who never had it.

The Department of Social Security has a great deal to learn from its success. We would be much better off if all the public money spent on similar ventures had been spent as wisely.

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As for Prince Charles's opposition to Le Corbusier's disciples who have done so much to blight British cities, there is only one unfortunate aspect. It is a pity that he was not around a generation earlier, before so much damage had been done.There is a pattern to all the Prince of Wales's activities He identifies a problem. Then, gently but firmly, he applies pressure until notice is taken. The need for more Shakespeare in schools, for the Church of England to retain the sonorous glories of the authorised version and the 1662 Prayer Book: these may have been unfashionable causes, but his persistence has helped to put his opponents on the defensive Yet there is a cost.

Lacking in self-confidence, cripplingly insecure, she was also becoming intoxicated by the ease with which she could play upon public opinion. That was a dangerous power for a personality with such flawed foundations. It was not clear what she wanted to do to her husband: take revenge, inflict humiliation, or just toy with him She may not have known her own intentions But they would always have been destructive. No one since Henry VIII would have known how to deal with a princess like that. Her accidental death appeared to eliminate a threat to the monarchy.It did not remove all the poison.