If prince Charles wasn't Prince of Wales

oak_and_cedar · February 28, 2019, 12:45:34 PM

If Prince Charles wasn't Prince of Wales what do you think he would be doing?
We know that he has started and run a successful Prince's trust. No small feat.
I imagine him being a business man. Or perhaps a CEO of some company that focuses on enviromental issues.
A solar panel company or such. What do you guys think?

TLLK · February 28, 2019, 01:57:21 PM

IMO he'd be a landscape architect or head gardener. He has a serious interest in plants and landscape design.

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oak_and_cedar · February 28, 2019, 03:15:44 PM

Isn't he also interested in alternative medicin?
Maybe he would've studied an area in medicin or biology.

amabel · February 28, 2019, 06:57:38 PM

I don't think so.. he's not into science.. per se. I tink he's done well to improve his estates and to set up the Pricnces Trust.. but he's very much the POW.. I cant imagine him in any other role

Princess Cassandra · March 01, 2019, 03:41:44 AM

Certainly a businessman, but don't forget his interest in architecture and heritage. He could have been a leader in the planning industry, writing books about keeping a sense of place in growing cities. His Poundberry initiative is what makes me really think of him as a planner.

oak_and_cedar · March 01, 2019, 05:01:17 AM

He's a very talented man. How successful is Poundbury? A couple of weeks ago I read that they had trouble "filling up" the town.

Prince Charles' dream of a 'Scottish Poundbury' lies in tatters with just 31 homes built | Daily Mail Online

Maybe there are other factors at play.

royalanthropologist · March 01, 2019, 06:18:11 AM

The key word is "Scottish Poundbury". If you read the article, it is very different from what the DM wants to project.

oak_and_cedar · March 01, 2019, 07:34:06 AM

Quote from: royalanthropologist on March 01, 2019, 06:18:11 AM
The key word is "Scottish Poundbury". If you read the article, it is very different from what the DM wants to project.

Reading is as they say fundamental :lol:. Thanks. I'll re read it again later. But it's not the first time the Daily fail tries to fool people.

Curryong · March 01, 2019, 01:26:57 PM

I think Charles woud have been completely and utterly happy running a large agricultural estate in the shires of England if he had not been born heir to the throne. He would have run the estate in a sustainable manner planting what crops he desired (and perhaps arguing with his sister about it.) Charles would have owned property in a nearby village (cottages to his own design) and written books on agriculture.

oak_and_cedar · March 01, 2019, 01:47:56 PM

Now that I think about it, I do recall PC Writing books. I think he helped to write one about Highgrove.

Double post auto-merged: March 02, 2019, 05:58:19 AM

Would Prince Charles get married and have a family if he wasn't POW?
Before he married Diana he was fine living like a bachelor. But he needed to get married as POW.

amabel · March 02, 2019, 07:22:38 PM

I don't know. I think he might have stayed a bachelor for many years, if he hadn't had the obligation ot marry and have kids. I used to think he was not that crazy about children.. and he might hav just married late in life for companionship but Im not sure...

Curryong · March 02, 2019, 11:45:03 PM

If in this alternative scenario Charles the 'not POW' had enjoyed a long relationship with a married woman then I certainly don't think he would have bothered to marry.

However, that's with a caveat. As we've observed before about Prince Charles, he didn't really need a wife in any practical everyday sense. His valet looked after his clothing, a cook/housekeeper cooked his meals and other servants cleaned his rooms, made his bed etc.

If Charles the not POW had this range of staff looking after him plus a mistress then he wouldn't have bothered about marriage, IMO. If, OTOH, it had just been a cleaner coming in a couple of times a week and he was cooking his own meals or having them at a local pub, then marriage might well have sprung to mind!

oak_and_cedar · March 03, 2019, 10:13:22 AM

I think that if he were not POW and had an "ordinary" job he would have married in his early thirties. Perhaps also lived in Australia for a while. From one of his biographies I read it said he really liked it there.

amabel · March 03, 2019, 03:50:08 PM

I cant' really imagine Charles as anything but the POW. I think he's a shy self doubting man and perhaps without the prestige of that role, while he would work hard, he might not have the self confidence to achieve so much...

Princess Cassandra · March 03, 2019, 07:51:27 PM

You may well be right. Meanwhile, isn't it amazing how he has become so much more relaxed, confident, and FUN in his later years. Unlike many, I don't think this is only about his marriage to Camilla - he has proven himself over and over and finally got some respect, which in turn has given him much more confidence. I hope he will have more than just a few years before he has to switch roles.

LouisFerdinand · March 03, 2019, 11:47:38 PM

Prince Charles has done a lot of watercolor paintings. Perhaps he would be an artist.
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royalanthropologist · March 04, 2019, 06:51:31 AM

Some of the Windsors have untapped talents that they never really used because they never had to. I understand PM was so good at playing the piano and singing that she could have had a professional career if she wanted.

oak_and_cedar · March 04, 2019, 09:02:24 AM

I've also read that HM is a really good equestrian and is involved in horse racing I think it was? She's even had a couple of wins in the Royal Ascot I think?

Also Prince Philip, I read somewhere, has a good "technichal" mind and is apperantly quite inventive.

TLLK · March 04, 2019, 02:14:39 PM

QuoteShe's even had a couple of wins in the Royal Ascot I think?

Yes as an owner she's had success with racing including 23 wins at Royal Ascot. :)

Queen Elizabeth II's undiminished love of horse racing - CNN

amabel · March 04, 2019, 05:43:47 PM

Quote from: royalanthropologist on March 04, 2019, 06:51:31 AM
Some of the Windsors have untapped talents that they never really used because they never had to. I understand PM was so good at playing the piano and singing that she could have had a professional career if she wanted.

I would doubt that.....

corydora · May 18, 2019, 09:31:58 PM

Quote from: oak_and_cedar on February 28, 2019, 12:45:34 PM
If Prince Charles wasn't Prince of Wales what do you think he would be doing?
We know that he has started and run a successful Prince's trust. No small feat.
I imagine him being a business man. Or perhaps a CEO of some company that focuses on enviromental issues.
A solar panel company or such. What do you guys think?

I think he would have been a gentleman farmer and horse breeder. He seems to enjoy the outdoors and likes his polo ponies. Likes gardening and painting nature. Maybe something like America's Thomas Jefferson who experimented with seeds and plants or George Washington Carver who discovered a zillion uses for the simple peanut and the sweet potato.