Maybe Prince Charles is a Royal Workaholic, According to Prince Harry
No, Prince Charles doesn't sit around and eat bon-bons all day (although at almost 70, it might be understandable if he did).
The Prince of Wales has always been a notoriously hard worker, and certainly isn't slowing down. "For a man about to turn 70, I think his energy surprises me the most," John Bridcut, the man behind Charles's recent BBC documentary, told Vanity Fair. "He has amazing physical and mental energy. Yes, he is looked after in a way most of us aren’t, but he compensates by the amount he crams in."
And it is a lot that he crams in. In 2017 alone, he managed to make 546 public appearances-more than any other royal family member. Over the years, he's also spent a great deal of time advocating for causes he believes in. Indeed, environmentalism and the fight against climate change have become a major part of his life story.
In the new BBC documentary Prince, Son and Heir: Charles at 70, Prince Harry even shared that he feels his father should "slow down" a bit.
"This is a man who has dinner ridiculously late at night, and then goes to his desk later that night and will fall asleep on his notes to the point where he’ll wake up with a piece of paper stuck to his face," he says.
"The man never stops. When we were kids, there were bags and bags and bags of work that the office just sent to him. We could barely even get to his desk to say goodnight to him."
Prince Charles has always lived with the knowledge that he would one day assume the throne. But as that day nears, royal fans have begun to take notice of how much he's done with his existing role.
"Charles figured out a very long time ago that he was going to be Prince of Wales for a very long time," a family friend told Vanity Fair. "He planned his life accordingly, and he wouldn’t have been able to accomplish half of what he has if he had become King earlier."
When the time does come for his reign, Charles has hinted that he'll stop advocating for his chosen causes, as he doesn't believe that the U.K.'s monarch should voice political opinions. Of course, that doesn't mean he'll slow his grueling schedule-knowing Charles, he'll find more than enough work to do.
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