It's time we learned to cherish and stop chastising Prince Charles

According to a new poll, Charles has fallen out of favour with the public

If I have one enduring memory of the Prince of Wales during my 12-year tenure at Buckingham Palace, it's of the time he did a doubleact with Phil Collins. It was during a holiday camp in Caister, Norfolk, in aid of The Prince's Trust - an annual event that the Prince was always keen to attend - that he suddenly sat down at Collins' drum kit and began bashing away.

The kids surrounded him, applauding and cheering. Never for a moment did they expect that a future King would behave like that, or that he should even want to help them. Yet that was exactly what he did, and has done for the entirety of his life. And that is typical of Charles.