I personally think a remodelled monarchy....based on the Scandinavian model would be preferable to having a Republic. I have seen too many Presidents in my lifetime, in other countries, to be enamoured of that idea. The public are fickle, and if Trump can be elected (and who would have ever thought that was a possibility?) or the British can elect a charlatan like Boris as PM...then I don’t want a president as head of state.

Let’s be realistic...he is heir to the throne...do you realistically believe he would have had to wait in line like the rest of us? I live in the real world!

Now we do have a test that gives a result in 90 minutes:
[cambridge-news.co.uk]
Let's hope our lethargic government does not get in the way of mass testing.

I’ve just done the clapping...! Well done to all of you on the front line....they need to get you all tested ASAP!

@Marionville I got applauded - nice! And I applauded, because it's teamwork!

He’s not at Balmoral btw...his own home is Birkhall on Deeside, near Ballater, that’s where he is.. I also would not believe everything I read or hear about him...or any other gossip or nonsense like you quoted. He was sent to Gordonstoun as a boy, and lived on board ship when he was in the navy...he isn’t a namby pamby as many like to make out, although as heir to the throne he will naturally have a retinue with him.

@Marionville Yes I am aware that he is at Birkhall, one of his holiday homes in Scotland, the other being Castle of Mey in Caithness. The sample bottle story may or may not be nonsense but it is a good story.
My point is that we have been instructed not to travel and stay at our main residence. He should have set an example and stayed in London and should be ashamed of himself.

@Moravian I don’t think shame is in his lexicon! We thought yesterday that he was probably at Balmoral...that is why I mentioned Birkhall.

@Marionville I think the estates are adjacent to one another but with Birkhall being around 50000 acres and Balmoral probably about the same there should be no problems with social distancing.
It is a beautiful part of the world though. Queen Vic and Albert had good taste

@Moravian I know..I’ve been there...just not in recent years though.

@Marionville A couple of years ago I climbed Lochnagar from Glen Muick whilst the queen was in residence at Balmoral. I was a few hundred yards above a rough track from Balmoral to Glen Muick when a police landrover appeared on the track and stopped below me for what seem like ages as I climbed up. I could almost feel the eyes watching me and I felt a bit like Richard Hannay from The Thirty Nine Steps. Won't be up there this summer though unfortunately.

I don’t wish him any harm either and hope he recovers ....it was a somewhat tongue in cheek post to elicit some responses from what is not a hugely royalist supporting group here on Agnostics.

@Marionville I support constitutional monarchies because they are cheaper to run than Republics of any given size. There's also not much point in assassinating a monarch for political reasons.

@Petter I agree ...a president would cost more....and you never quite know who the fickle public will elect! No prizes for guessing whom I have in mind!

@ToolGuy That was when he was young and she was “a bit on the side”! People age and become old fogeys!!

@ToolGuy precisely!

@Marionville : Err.. actually, I think you'll find that it was actually his wife Diana, that was his "bit-on-the-side"! Camilla was his first love, his soulmate, but not of a qualiying blood-line to bear-the-heir! So despite all of his protests, he was not allowed to wed the Lady-of-the-Camellias, until he had an heir-and-a-spare, from an aprooved source. To remove her from the marriage-market, but keep her on hand, he had his old Buddy "marry" her, green-card fashion! But she was always around, -remember Diana moaning there was THREE of them, in that wedding?

@UncleAlan That’s as may be...it’s the one who isn’t the wife that is always referred to as “bit on the side”. I do actually know that Camilla came first, but got tired of waiting for something that was never going to happen, and married Parker Bowles instead. Charles had to find a virgin...and one of blue blood...pretty thin on the ground, hence the young and innocent Diana was chosen to be the sacrificial lamb.

How very true...it’s no respecter of rank or title.

Most Celebrities are fake publicity hoggers. I discount them. I attach far more worth to caring people.

@Petter I do too. They are celebrities in their own eyes!

My Ex husband was an avid hunter & fisherman. Nobody knew more about habitat, ecology, biology, water pollution, the weather. We ate everything he caught, and he dropped his NRA membership decades ago, as soon as they got rabid! He did not want drunken yahoos running around with guns!

The upper crusts are all into huntin”, fishin’ and fornicatin’....always were..it’s probably in the genes! Yes he is big into conservation too...figure it out, for I can’t!

@Marionville I must be uppercrust, at least on your third criterion!
Conservation, by the way, also means controlling populations.

@Marionville Easy: conserve all the game creatures and kill them...duh...

As he was tested in Aberdeenshire...I suspect that he must be in Balmoral.

@Marionville I didn't know that.I presume Camilla is back in London as she apparently tested negative

@Moravian No, she’s with him apparently.

@Marionville Probably have seperate bedrooms anyway

@Moravian I’m sure they do...most royals seem to,

I do hope he recovers....my post was somewhat tongue in cheek!

@Marionville I hope the whole lot of them sod off back to the Middle Ages where they belong!