{"id":66208,"date":"2018-11-08T01:01:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/08\/prince-charles-me-meddle-as-a-king-im-not-that-stupid\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T01:01:30","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T00:01:30","slug":"prince-charles-me-meddle-as-a-king-im-not-that-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=66208","title":{"rendered":"Prince Charles: &#039;Me, meddle as a king? I&#039;m not that stupid&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heir to throne tells BBC 70th birthday interview he will desist from his hobbyhorses if sovereignThe Prince of Wales has sought to quell concerns that he would be a \u201cmeddling\u201d or activist king , saying \u201cI\u2019m not that stupid\u201d. His words, the strongest yet on the subject of his kinghood, are to be broadcast in a documentary on BBC One on Thursday to mark his 70th birthday.Declaring the role of sovereign and heir to be different, Prince Charles maintains he is aware of the constraints he will encounter as king, and says his behaviour will change. Acknowledging that some people have accused him of being a meddling prince, he argues that he has always tried to be non-party political. \u201cIt is vital to remember there\u2019s only room for one sovereign at a time. Not two,\u201d he says. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2018\/nov\/08\/prince-charles-me-meddle-as-a-king-im-not-that-stupid\" target=\"_blank\">Prince Charles: &#039;Me, meddle as a king? I&#039;m not that stupid&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heir to throne tells BBC 70th birthday interview he will desist from his hobbyhorses if sovereignThe Prince of Wales has sought to quell concerns that he would be a \u201cmeddling\u201d or activist king , saying \u201cI\u2019m not that stupid\u201d. His words, the strongest yet on the subject of his kinghood, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}