YP Letters: Charles may yet get the respect he deserves

LIKE many other contributors to “Dianafication”, Janet Berry is taken in by the late Princess’s cunning manipulation of the media. After watching Channel 4’s documentary on Diana, your correspondent concludes that “Charles and Camilla are not fit to be King and Queen” (The Yorkshire Post, August 10).

Whilst Diana was allowed to unleash her spite in lurid revelations about their private life which were only designed to humiliate the Prince, any representations on behalf of the heir to the throne were conspicuous by their absence. By contrast, to my knowledge Charles has never been judgmental of Diana in public. His sense of decency has allowed him no more than remarks in letters quoted in Jonathan Dimbleby’s official biography: “How awful incompatibility is.” In the fullness of time, Charles may get the respect he deserves and become a good king.

I am persuaded by remarks made by the distinguished conductor John Eliot Gardiner: “Charles is under-estimated and misunderstood. He is informed on all sorts of issues and committed to addressing the world’s problems – climate change, the Amazon rain forest, food production. He’s a troubled soul but he’s got his feet on the ground. And he’s very good company.”