It's hard work

Johann Hari has an excellent profile of Charles Windsor (and you just know that the usual suspects are going to be pissed off by Hari referring to him that way) which gives some interesting information on his working habits:

Nor has Charles put in much of the work he claims women like Day must show if they are even to contemplate "rising above their station". James Callaghan, the Labour former prime minister, tried to find some meaningful work for Charles in the mid-1970s. Callaghan suggested that Charles take a job in Whitehall or the Cabinet Office, or as a member of the Commonwealth Development Corporation, to extended his understanding of government. Charles refused to do the job unless he could enter at the absolute top. A Channel 4 investigation into Charles's work schedule in 1998 found that he worked, on average, just one and a half days a week. Buckingham Palace figures are misleading because they brag of hundreds of events attended by the prince a year. They fail to mention that as many as five events can be crammed into a day - leaving the rest of the week free.

Of course, because he used a variant of the magic words 'political correctness gone mad', various people (who really ought to know better) have been queueing up to defend him while telling us how wonderful it is that a rich person with nothing better to do with his time does some work for charity. It's quite illuminating to see who's standing up to take the side of multi-millionaire beneficiary of the ultimate accident of birth against a woman who suggested that maybe qualified members of his staff might appreciate the chance to train for a better job.