"He got the youngsters to design and create their own building."

As long as it conforms to his own anachronistic and backward architectural viewpoint no doubt. Take a look at Poundbury; a chocolate-box Kinkade-like approximation of an rural idyll that only exists in the minds of those whose family never endured the rigours and hardships (let alone the back-breaking work) that ordinary people had to.

His intervention into the development at Chelsea Barracks was not only ill-judged (the man knows bugger all about architecture it seems) but also demonstrated his lack of accountability and his hatred of the democratic process. By going over the heads of all the public bodies appointed and personally appealing to the Qatari Royal Family, who subsequently pulled the plug because of his intervention it seems Charles has learnt sod all about where his place in society should be - his namesake Charles I suffered from similar delusions and whilst chopping the old scrote's head off is a bit much, he should have the humility and respect to keep his gob shut and let the planning process proceed unhindered.

The Royal Family might bring in the tourist dollars and certainly are a big part of the mucky myth of 'Britishness' that sells so well to foreign visitors but in reality their privileged upbringing has bog all to do with the ordinary working people of this country. Our history is far richer and represents a struggle against in spite of the values shown by Chaz et al.

Leveller has it spot on; The Levellers, The Diggers and people like Lillburne and Winstanley are the measure of the people these Islands can produce not the cosseted, wealthy blue-bloods who sit in their palaces and dabble in the affairs of honest, working people.