Ignore the turbulent, dramatic past that has involved a lot of hurt parties and the bright and shiny future that can only come to him if and when his universally beloved mother kicks the bucket, Charles is definitely a good guy. And that's not just the expensive PR machine doing the talking. Several decades of being so close to unquestioned power, a whole generation removed from the regal hysteria of the abdication crisis, it wouldn't be too much of a surprise if the heir had grown up into something of a twisted creature, divorced from reality and that.
So, having been told that he's accepted suitcases of cash from dodgy (ahem, dodgy is the sweet euphemism to help with the swallowing of the bitter pill of outright murderous regimes intent on subjugation, willing to rip folk limb from limb in the pursuit of whatever they want) dealers and whatever other less than reputable things he's been doing. Look past the interference we've already seen from someone who stands to be our next supposedly neutral head of state. Forget about whatever preferences (whether I understand them or not) you might have for the man's son and daughter-in-law, that's not how the system you profess to support works.
No, we're all having to contemplate and gear up for the benevolent terror of Charles the however manyth. It doesn't matter that he's been taking less-than-legitimate donations, it doesn't matter that he has opinions, it doesn't matter that he conducted a decades-long affair, it doesn't matter that people don't like him as much as they do others, it doesn't matter that his son was forced out of the firm for the temerity of not putting up with the bullying of his mixed-race wife, it doesn't matter that he's yet another old white man insulted by layers of privilege to the point that his little brother won't be prosecuted for obvious sex crimes. This is the system we're wedded to. He's going to persist, burrowed in like the tick he is.
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