Stand Up, Charles

Although he is perhaps a bit hard on the Queen, Peter Hitchens writes:

Prince Charles will be right to speak out once he becomes King. It is true that by doing so he will risk the future of the Crown. But, if he fails to rock the Royal boat, the Monarchy will in any case be finished soon.

The present Queen is undoubtedly very nice. But she has badly damaged the throne by failing to speak out when she might have done – especially against the surrender of our independence to the European Union, which undermined her own position.

And it is a myth that she has remained carefully neutral. Far from it.

In 1998 she went out of her way to endorse the Blair Government’s abject surrender to the terrorist godfathers of the IRA.

Her stance on this contentious issue helped Mr Blair to bamboozle Northern Ireland’s Protestants into voting ‘yes’ in the rigged referendum that will eventually place them under Dublin rule, so that they cease to be the Queen’s subjects.

In her 2004 Christmas broadcast she proclaimed ‘diversity is indeed a strength’ – a Royal endorsement of the multiculturalism many oppose and dislike.

Just imagine what would have happened if she had taken the opposite side on these issues, and then you will see just how powerful these statements were.

Charles, unlike his mother, has some strong conservative instincts – not Tory, by the way, which is in many ways the opposite of conservative these days.


And that is exactly the point. When a rigged, whipped Parliament is dominated by teenage social liberals who know little and care nothing of the national heritage, an outspoken King could upset this unhealthy arrangement, speaking for the voiceless millions who share his sense of loss and of isolation.

By doing so he would create a crisis. And the attitude of the media in such a crisis could decide if he succeeds or fails. But I think that crisis is necessary. The major political parties are closed clubs kept alive by State funding and dodgy millionaires, speaking only for themselves.

Thwey, not the House of Lords, the Monarchy or the judiciary, are the things that need reforming and replacing. Charles could justify his entire life if he helps to make that happen, and I hope he will.

If he doesn’t, his fate is sealed. New Labour’s Michael Wills, a close associate of Gordon Brown, has already drawn up plans to humiliate and marginalise the Monarchy. The next lot of Royal children will be ordered to attend State schools, to keep up the pretence that the State system is working.

The Coronation will be turned into a multi-culti panto. And Mr Wills thinks Charles cannot be trusted to be impartial if there is a hung Parliament – the implication being that he will lose his role in forming a new government.

You think the Useless Tories will protect the throne against this sort of salami-slicing? Forget it. Faced with the choice between defending the old independent House of Lords and caving in, what did they do?

They caved in, in their unending quest for a quiet life in preference to principles. Somebody has to stand in the way and say ‘enough’. It won’t be David Cameron. Let it be Charles. Everyone may be surprised by how much support he gets.

He would certainly get mine.