Prince Charles Criticized Tony Blair For Trying To Do This To Monarchy

Prince Charles was not pleased with Tony Blair’s attempts to try and change the monarchy.

Tom Bower, the author of “Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion, and Defiance of Prince Charles,” said that the former prime minister was hardly a passionate royalist. One year before meeting Prince Charles for the first time, Blair advocated a smaller, Scandinavian-type-monarchy, that will curb the rights of the royal family to engage in public controversy.

Blair suggested that Queen Elizabeth II should decide whether the monarchy would retreat into isolation and the old hierarchical order or seek to become more like a normal family. Blair’s ideas became popular in the Labor party, but they did not sit well with Prince Charles.

The heir to the throne was convinced that Blair wanted to transform the royal family into something more pompous and harder to approach. Prince Charles also believed that politicians are dishonest, especially with regards to the young people’s supposed inability to read and enjoy Shakespeare.

In BBC’s 2002 broadcast “Queen and Country,” Blair described the monarchy as a rationally better system and explained his own background as a traditionalist.

“My family didn’t have many republican sympathies in it. A lot of people of my generation, have decided in part because of how important a unifier for the country the Queen has been that actually, this is a better system – rationally, not simply emotionally or as part of a tradition – but rationally this is a better system,” he said.

Royal editor Robert Jobson revealed in his book “Charles at 70: Thoughts, Hopes, and Dreams” that Prince Charles also had an encounter with Blair for being the former US president George W. Bush’s “poodle” during the Iraq War.

According to Jobson, Prince Charles thought that Blair behaved like a poodle at that time and said so. The future king also thought that the Iraq War was a bewildering mess.

“Charles was diametrically opposed to the Blair-Bush Iraq War strategy,” he said.