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<blockquote data-quote="Vieux Talonneur" data-source="post: 1034192" data-attributes="member: 73144"><p>You can't really compare their work / stresses to ours. But, doing the same things as you were 50 years ago has to be tedious in the extreme. Easy but mentally unrewarding. Most people feel better about themselves when they've achieved something or made a difference. Is the option of being fulfilled by their work open to the wavers and mumblers? </p><p></p><p>Yes they have cushy lives in the sense of wealth and having everything done for them, but as Stan Collymore pointed out for footballers, money and privilege does not necessarily equate to happiness and fulfilment. I'm not an arch royalist, but there's definitely an element of gilded prison about it all and if lockdown's taught us one thing, its that we like to be in control of our own destinies and resent loss of freedom. </p><p></p><p>Charles, rightly, wants to slim down the monarchy and steps have been taken with Andrew's daughters etc. But Harry has shown that if you're near the centre of things, it isn't all that easy to escape.....I can understand his viewpoint even if I disagree with the way he's done it. William by all accounts is a bit reluctant to be in the position he's in, albeit accepting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Vieux Talonneur, post: 1034192, member: 73144"] You can't really compare their work / stresses to ours. But, doing the same things as you were 50 years ago has to be tedious in the extreme. Easy but mentally unrewarding. Most people feel better about themselves when they've achieved something or made a difference. Is the option of being fulfilled by their work open to the wavers and mumblers? Yes they have cushy lives in the sense of wealth and having everything done for them, but as Stan Collymore pointed out for footballers, money and privilege does not necessarily equate to happiness and fulfilment. I'm not an arch royalist, but there's definitely an element of gilded prison about it all and if lockdown's taught us one thing, its that we like to be in control of our own destinies and resent loss of freedom. Charles, rightly, wants to slim down the monarchy and steps have been taken with Andrew's daughters etc. But Harry has shown that if you're near the centre of things, it isn't all that easy to escape.....I can understand his viewpoint even if I disagree with the way he's done it. William by all accounts is a bit reluctant to be in the position he's in, albeit accepting. [/QUOTE]
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