In fairness, he’s only like our own grandfathers are or could be.
Served in the war with a reasonable record, and seems to have a mind of his own. I suspect if any of you were in a postion to meet so many different groups of people, so frequently as your “job”, that you’d firstly find it dull, and be looking to make a few jokes and quips, and that theres a % that will offend someone, somewhere, doubly so when everything you say is recorded and reported for that very effect to flog a few papers.
For example, his remarks to students in China about becoming “slitty eyed” if they stay too long, was a reasonably intelligent reverse quip about a longer standing Chinese joke about staying in the west and becoming round eyed, but the press wouldn’t want that reported, as that might be fair, even handed and crucially, sell fewer papers.
I am no royalist, but it seems the embittered republicans in this thread can’t seperate their own opinions of his role with his personality.
Lets face it, he seems hapilly married, after 60 odd years, which is more than most of the posters here can manage….. I expect if he was *your* grandfather, happilly married, servedin the forces, you’d all be rather proud, secretly, even he did embarass you on occasion.