Prince Charles will not speak when he becomes king

The Prince of Wales said that he would stop talking about matters that deeply concern him when he will become king because he is "not so stupid".

He has been campaigning for decades on issues such as the environment, but says that he would not be doing the same thing as monarch.

Speaking in a BBC documentary on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Prince Charles said the idea that he would continue to intervene was "absurd".

He said that it should work within the framework of "constitutional parameters".

He has led campaigns on topics such as the environment, wildlife preservation, architecture and the use of GM crops.

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During the one hour program, he was questioned about what some people have called his "interference", but added that he had always tried to remain "political without a party".

He said: "I think it's essential to remember that there is only room for one sovereign at a time, not two.

"So you can not be the same as the ruler if you are the Prince of Wales or the heir.

"But the idea, in one way or another, that I will continue in exactly the same way, if I have to succeed, is totally absurd because both – the two situations – are completely different. "

When asked if his public campaign would continue, he replied, "No, that will not be the case, I'm not so stupid.

"I realize it's a separate exercise to be sovereign, so of course I totally understand how it should work."

Documentary filmmaker John Bridcut, who has followed the royal crown for 12 months, said Prince Charles "had suffered a bit" using the word "interference", preferring instead to consider his interventions as "motivating".

The heir to the throne said: "If it is an interference of worrying downtown as I was 40 years ago, then if it is the same as it was in the past, it would be an intruder to worry about downtown. interference, I'm proud of it. "

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Analysis

By Nicholas Witchell, Royal Correspondent

He spent his adult life trying, as he says, to "make a difference". This has often brought the Prince of Wales to talk about topics that interest him deeply: the environment, genetically modified crops, city centers, architecture, education, medicine homeopathic, etc.

Prince Charles has been accused of "interference". He sometimes provoked irritation within the ministries, who had to react to his "black spider" handwritten letters, which were sincere and which raised, always with courtesy but often insistently, a question which had attracted the prince's attention.

All this has caused greater concern. Does Prince Charles fully understand that, when he succeeds his mother and becomes King of Great Britain, these interventions will have to stop?

Those who know him have said for years that he understood that there was a line that he could not cross as a ruler.

They said that in private, he understood perfectly that as a king he should stop "campaigning".

Prince Charles himself has always hesitated to say so publicly. He stated that any reference to his behavior as a monarch could be considered disrespectful to his mother.

However, while the Queen is in her 93rd year and Prince Charles is about to celebrate his 70th birthday, he has finally declared – publicly and explicitly – that he recognizes that his interventions on issues of public debate had to stop as soon as possible. he becomes king.

"You operate," he says in the BBC documentary, "in the constitutional parameters".

It is reasonable to badume that his badurances will be heard with some relief within Whitehall and the corridors of power.

"He is brilliant"

Mr. Bridcut said, "People who think he's hanging around and aspiring to be king are very wrong.

"This is not something that he dies of wanting to badume because it will inevitably only happen after his mother's death."

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He added that the Duchess of Cornwall, also interviewed in the documentary, "stresses that this burden does not weigh heavily on her shoulders".

The BBC now has access to the movie Prince Charles, which will turn 70 on November 14.

The Duke of Cambridge also indicated that he would like his father to spend more time with his grandchildren, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis.

Prince William said: "when he is there, he is brilliant" but "we need him as much as possible".

"People at his side"

By Roger Harrabin, Environmental Analyst at the BBC

The prince warned decades ago against climate change induced by man. At the time, the subject was controversial, but there is now a scientific consensus on the threat.

On wildlife, he has rightly predicted a huge loss of species. He has campaigned against the destruction of tropical forests and will welcome the recent attention paid to the impact of agriculture on forests, and therefore on the climate.

Its concern for the soil has seemed uninteresting to some observers, but it is now recognized that many regions are facing a crisis of degradation and soil loss.

On these issues, the mainstream is directed to the future monarch.

On genetically modified crops, the prince remains in conflict with the scientific establishment.

On other recreational horses, such as homeopathy and architecture, he expressed his opinion rather than the facts – but he will still have people on his side.

• Prince, Son And Heir: Charles At age 70, will be screened on BBC One on Thursday, November 8 at 9 pm.