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Reuters

Britain’s Prince Charles said he will stop speaking out on issues he feels strongly about when he becomes king as he is “not that stupid”.
Speaking to the BBC ahead of his 70th birthday next week, the son of 92-year-old Queen Elizabeth said that the role of monarch was completely different to his current position as Prince of Wales.
“The idea, somehow, that I’m going to go on in exactly the same way, if I have to succeed, is complete nonsense because the two – the two situations – are completely different,” he said.
Asked whether his public campaigning will continue, he said: “No, it won’t. I’m not that stupid.”

Britain currently has a constitutional monarchy, where the monarch has a formal role in the formation of governments but an obligation to remain neutral and no practical political power.
Charles has been outspoken on topics such as the environment and social issues. In September Charles said in an interview with GQ magazine that: “My problem is I find there are too many things that need doing or battling on behalf of.”
But he told the BBC that he would operate within “constitutional parameters” as king.
“I do realise that it is a separate exercise being sovereign. So of course I understand entirely how that should operate,” he said.
When Prince Charles and Princess Diana visited Hong Kong, and the press weighed in on her fashion choices
But he defended his activism as heir to the throne, which includes founding the Prince’s Trust charity in 1976 to support vulnerable young people.
He said: “If it’s meddling to worry about the inner cities as I did 40 years ago, then if that’s meddling I’m proud of it.”


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Britain's Prince Charles (C) reviews an honour guard of Nigerian troops as he arrives in Abuja on November 6, 2018. - The Prince of Wales has cut out a stop of a trip to Nigeria over security concerns, following months of deadly clashes between nomadic herders and farmers in the restive region. Prince Charles and his second wife, Camilla, arrived in the Nigerian capital Abuja, on the tail end of a West African tour that has included Gambia and Ghana. (Photo by AFOLABI SOTUNDE / POOL / AFP)

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‘The idea, somehow, that I’m going to go on in exactly the same way, if I have to succeed, is complete nonsense,’ Charles told the BBC


‘The idea, somehow, that I’m going to go on in exactly the same way, if I have to succeed, is complete nonsense,’ Charles told the BBC.


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