The Queen is one of the richest people in the world. She doesn't need to do any visits, entertain anyone, present awards, sit for hour after boring hour in some hot countries, in cold countries, in countries who don't even want her there.....

...yet..she does it.

She is old, getting more frail every year, but she is still out there, promoting this country, working to keep old friendships going, pleasing people, smiling, smiling endless smiling and nodding of heads and trying to be interested in so many things she is not.

She never lets anyone down, has an almost obssessive sense of duty.

She has never been involved in any scandal, probably has had many unhappy, lonely moments in her life...

But she never complains..

Prince Harry was talking the other day about how he's finding it hard to find a woman who actually wants to be with him on a life-long basis, taking on the role and rigid lifestyle she would have to adopt as his wife....He said he longed, at times, to be ordinary, to just be able to live his life as others do.

Of course, if he *were* ordinary, his Mother would still be alive, there for him, loving him, protecting him...and he would be a far happier young man.

As to Princess Diana's 'sex' life, MtheGM, could I just say it was more probably her 'love life' and we had no right to know anything about her private life in the first place, but those who hounded her, who eventually killed as sure as if they'd put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger, thought that everything she did should be public knowledge.

Likewise the comment, albeit strange, which Prince Charles is alleged to have said to Camilla. Again, it was from a private phone call...one which was 'tapped' so I recall.

Let any person here who has nothing in their life to be ashamed of, embarrassed of, stand up and crow how Holier than Thou they are.....

Geez, some of the unpleasantness in this thread makes me want to weep at times....

Charles is trying to save YOUR planet, for YOUR children as much as his. Give the guy a break for Christ's sake and just for once see 'the man' not his title, nor his money, nor the family into which he was born, nor his past......Just watch the links to the speeches I put in way back and listen to what he has to say, because far from spending his time on messageboards spewing out hatred, he's out there doing all he can to make a positive and genuine difference in the many things he works hard at, including trying to save this planet from greedy bastards who are hellbent on destroying it forever...