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Friends of the Prince, his staff and the Prince himself feel there is an unfairness in the unrelenting swell of criticism against the Prince. "He is both ahead and behind his time. He's not of his time," says Britain's former chief rabbi Jonathan Sacks. "He's bigger than the media will make space for."
A recent rash of articles proposes bypassing the Prince in favor of the shiny younger royals when the Queen dies. King William and Queen Kate would certainly have luster. But Charles is, by instinct and practice, a conservationist. "If you chuck away too many things," he says, "you end up discovering there was value in them."