Prince Charles shoots hoops with Swedish PM
Published: 23 Mar 12 16:34 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/39860/20120323/
Prince Charles locked horns with Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt on a basketball court in Stockholm on Thursday, before lunching with Princess Victoria on Friday for her first royal engagement since the birth of Princess Estelle.
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The prince was accompanied by Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, Queen Silvia and prime minister Reinfeldt.
Both the prince and Reinfeldt delighted crowds with their enthusiasm to shoot a few hoops.
However, the prince’s ball skills left a lot to be desired.
In terms of statistics, Charles came away with an empty scorecard, reportedly shooting zero for three attempts, according to TT.
Reinfelt, however, missed his first but drained his second and called it quits with a cool 50 percent field goal percentage. A rematch, for the moment, would appear to be a long shot.
On Friday, Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and her husband, Prince Daniel, met with Prince Charles for a lunch at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, taking a temporary break from her maternity leave.
Victoria has been on leave for the month since the birth of Princess Estelle, and according to Annika Sönnerberg, spokesman of the Royal Palace, the princess will be back to her usual duties ”when it’s possible”.
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All of them are arrogant malicious spies with venom. The world is the perfect place without them!!!
Love comments 1-4, especially #1 :)
the Great Bengal Famine - 10 mln dead;
the Great Irish Famine - 1 mln dead;
Inhumane slavery and trade in Africa, the Caribbean with the aims to profit immorally;
provoking WW1 and WW2;
bombing and killing cowardly 25000 civilians of Hamburg and Dresden for nothing;
stirring up Jewish-Arab/Muslim confrontation and exporting this across Europe and the world in the name of their immoral profits, greed and jealousy to others.
This is real fascism against the mankind and has no boundaries!
At least Prince Charles has bothered to visit a relatively insignificant country like Sweden at all - presumably part of the visit is to further improve, and cement relations between the two countries.
Meanwhile, go ahead - its great fun to sneer and poke fun at world figures: its much harder to get a life...
Word is that he has never been interested in ball game sports - yet he doesn't mind making a fool of himself for photos like this one. The guys in the background look as if they are taking lessons from the 'master' Lol!
"Royalty is a wonderfully rich part of human culture and played a leading part in world affairs. I feel sorry for those ignorant of its modern day role."
That's an anachronistic view of royalty. And as Greysuede has implicitly pointed out their involvement in world affairs has been to instigate wars ... many times against members of their family. Even the Bernadotte house is founded on war as descendants of a moneyed French general.
Being English by birth and by original nationality I understand the modern role of royalty very well. As i wrote in comment to the earlier Local article about Charlie's arrival in Sweden they are parasites; he does nothing of his own ... unless his interests are affected by proposed legislation at which point he has a veto over what the electorate wants. His duchy claims not to be a company so mandated corporate health and safety or risk assessments should not apply; the information commissioner disagrees and has demanded that such assessments be published.
And take a look at how he and his family treat Diana his first wife; although she wasn't really a wife just a womb from which the next in line of parasitical succession would emerge that being the sole qualification for the modern role, out of whose womb did they emerge. At least when they waged war there was some logic to who got crowned now it's just from whose legs.
After all, if you have TWO landowners affected by a Parliamentary bill - one of whom is Prince Charles - why should HE have any more 'clout' than the second landowner?
Yes there should be an *open* and frank discussion of Charlie's powers but the problem is -- to keep the metaphor of this article -- it's his ball. Discussion of the topic by either house of the British parliament is proscribed so unless he voluntarily gives up this privilege discussion is pointless because the law cannot be changed.
Ah no, it is that his interests are only to do with land ownership. His "interests" are very broadly drawn. If he should want to block a development in London because he thinks it "a carbuncle on the face of a friend" then even without any true interest he can exercise this veto.
Again in metaphor, it's like he's not only player but owner of the ball, referee and rule maker all at the same time.
If you are so unhappy with Monarchies what would you suggest?