{"page":"\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/resources-c03aa079.css\" /\u003e\n\u003clink rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://lessonplanet.com/assets/packs/css/lp_boclips_stylesheets-517835be.css\" media=\"all\" /\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-title='UK: PRINCE CHARLES BACKGROUNDER' data-url='/boclips/videos/5c54c21ed8eafeecae1574ab' data-video-url='/boclips/videos/5c54c21ed8eafeecae1574ab' id='bo_player_modal'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='boclips-resource-page modal-dialog panel-container'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='react-notifications-root'\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-header'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-type'\u003e\n\u003ci aria-hidden='true' class='fai fa-regular fa-circle-play'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\nVideo\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch1 class='rp-title' id='video-title'\u003e\nUK: PRINCE CHARLES BACKGROUNDER\n\u003c/h1\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-actions'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='mr-1'\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"btn btn-success\" data-posthog-event=\"Signup: LP Signup Activity\" data-posthog-location=\"body_link_boclips\" data-remote=\"true\" href=\"/subscription/new\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGet Free Access\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"\"\u003e for 10 Days\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e!\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-body'\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-info'\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-label='Hide resource details' class='rp-hide-info' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u0026times;\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Expand resource details' class='rp-expand-info fai fa-solid fa-up-right-and-down-left-from-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003ci aria-label='Compress resource details' class='rp-compress-info fai fa-solid fa-down-left-and-up-right-to-center' role='button' tabindex='0'\u003e\u003c/i\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-rating'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='resource-pool'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-label'\u003ePublisher:\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='pool-name'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='text'\u003e\u003ca data-publisher-id=\"30356011\" href=\"/search?publisher_ids%5B%5D=30356011\"\u003eCurated Video\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class='rp-description'\u003e\n\u003cspan class='short-description'\u003eEnglish/NatBritain's Prince Charles prepares to celebrate his fiftieth birthday on Saturday in private at his Highgrove home with a party for 350 guests thrown by his partner, Camilla Parker Bowles.As this significant landmark...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eEnglish/Nat\u003cbr/\u003eBritain's Prince Charles prepares to celebrate his fiftieth birthday on Saturday in private at his Highgrove home with a party for 350 guests thrown by his partner, Camilla Parker Bowles.\u003cbr/\u003eAs this significant landmark approaches, APTN has spoken to some of those who have chronicled the sometimes turbulent life of Prince Charles.\u003cbr/\u003ePrince Charles was born into a family which impressed on him from infancy the need to do his duty.\u003cbr/\u003eHis personal and emotional needs always came second to the importance of doing the right thing for his country.\u003cbr/\u003eHe spends little time with his mother, the Queen, and often communicates with her through official channels, using courtiers to carry messages.\u003cbr/\u003eThis according to Penny Junor, whose biography of Prince Charles was published this week amid a storm of controversy.\u003cbr/\u003eShe has been accused of attacking the late Princess Diana in an effort to reshape Prince Charles's image.\u003cbr/\u003eBut her views are not as one-sided as Britain's tabloid press have portrayed them, although she looks forward to the day he finally is able to sit on the throne.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think he'll make a very, very good King. I think he's dependent on - a little too dependent on advice. I'd like to see him take more - I think he's a slightly weak man. Again this is a product of his upbringing and the fact that there's always people around him to tell him what to do and what to think. His instincts are great, time and time again we see that in the areas which he's tackled when he's been just dismissed as a lunatic Prince, those issues have become mainstream.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Penny Junor, Author, 'Charles Victim or Villain?'\u003cbr/\u003eAnthony Holden is one of the Prince's fiercest critics - he's written a book about Charles every decade for the last thirty years.\u003cbr/\u003eHe lists the issues the Prince is associated with and dismisses them - in sharp contrast to Ann Leslie who recently interviewed Charles for a series of newspaper articles. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The work of the Prince's Trust as I've said is estimable and perhaps underpublicised. But if you look at all the other causes which Charles has famously championed - architecture, organic farming, alternative farming, literacy standards, people reading Shakespeare and so on, really there's very little concrete that he's achieved. He does tend to launch things and then abandon them and leave other people to pick up the pieces as his interests move elsewhere. And there's nothing substantial that he can point to. It's in many ways a rather sad and wasted life.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Anthony Holden, Author, 'Charles, A Biography'\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think what Prince Charles would like to be remembered for is his often extremely lonely crusades on things like brutalist architecture, organic farming, genetically modified seeds and things like that, holistic medicine. Now one has to remember that when he started 'banging on', as he would put it, on these issues, he was ridiculed. He was called the Potty Prince. Now these issues are mainstream.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Ann Leslie, Columnist, The Daily Mail\u003cbr/\u003eThe Prince himself acknowledges the reputation he has for being eccentric.\u003cbr/\u003eAt a Prince's trust awards ceremony recently he showed he can laugh at himself by poking fun at his nutty image - something that shows his more carefree side - and reflects a generally widespread feeling that he's happier with himself these days. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"It's also extremely nice to know that I share a birthday with a biscuit. I hadn't realised that before I must say until today. It's nice to imagine that perhaps Shakespeare might have written a slightly different ode - Can I compare thee to a biscuit or something like that. Fully organic and rather nutty. (Much laughter)\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Prince Charles\u003cbr/\u003eBut there are many issues Charles will not talk about in public. \u003cbr/\u003eAbdication, his marriage to Princess Diana - and the thorny issue of his relationship with Camilla Parker Bowles among them.\u003cbr/\u003eAt a society wedding last month, he and his partner avoided being photographed together by arriving separately.\u003cbr/\u003eThe man who wrote the definitive book about Princess Diana says he would be happy to see them get married - but acknowledges that's not a view shared by everyone. \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I have no problem at all if Prince Charles decides to marry a woman that he's loved from afar and secretly for most of his adult life. The Church of England would have a problem with it. Many other people in this country would also have a problem, but speaking as a man myself, it wouldn't worry me in the slightest. Will it happen? I think that the process of introducing Camilla to public life was happening shortly before Diana died. It has been delayed, but over a period of time it will continue again.\" \u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Andrew Morton, Author, Diana, Her True Story\u003cbr/\u003eCharles will have to continue attending events on his own for the foreseeable future.\u003cbr/\u003eBut he appears to be a man more at ease with himself and his role as he celebrates this birthday milestone.\u003cbr/\u003e London, United Kingdom - various dates\u003cbr/\u003e4 August 1998\u003cbr/\u003e1. Prince Charles, William, Harry, Edward and the Queen at Queen Mother's birthday, Clarence House\u003cbr/\u003e9 November 1998\u003cbr/\u003e2. Penny Junor and her book \u003cbr/\u003e3. SOUNDBITE: Penny Junor, Author, 'Charles, Victim or Villain?'\u003cbr/\u003e25 October 1998\u003cbr/\u003e4. Anthony Holden and book\u003cbr/\u003e5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Anthony Holden, Author, 'Charles, A Biography'\u003cbr/\u003e6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ann Leslie, Senior Correspondent, The Daily Mail\u003cbr/\u003e29 October 1998\u003cbr/\u003e7. Prince Charles meeting supporters of the Prince's Trust\u003cbr/\u003e8. Cutaway United Biscuits 50 years old and Prince's Trust logos\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Prince Charles\u003cbr/\u003e10. Camilla entering friend's wedding\u003cbr/\u003e24 August 1998\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Morton, Author, 'Diana Her True Story'\u003cbr/\u003e29 October 1998\u003cbr/\u003e12. 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