World: A Letter to Charles

The progenitors of pop and protest, miniskirts and peace marches are the youth of Britain. They know what they are against: it is not coincidence that the term Establishment was coined in the realm that will some day belong to Charles. He is the summa symbol of that Establishment, born old, committed, enmeshed, and he could no more drop out than change the color of his skin. The result is something of an intragenerational gap between the Prince and his contemporaries. With this in mind, TIME asked one of the Prince's fellow students to...

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