Analysis of Charles Spencer's Aristocratic Views

I know why Charles Spencer is doing this. You have to look back at history.

Uh, the Spencers are a great Whig family.

They believe that the royals, uh, the House of

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, as far as they're concerned, um,

are upstarts, vulgar, mudbloods, as it

were. Whereas the Spencers are pure-blooded aristocracy,

and therefore, he will have regarded his daughter as

marrying down when

she consented to ally herself, uh, with Charles.

And, uh, you can remember

when, uh, Charles Spencer was

seeking to, uh, co-opt Harry and

William in the immediate aftermath of Diana's death.

He talked about their blood family.

He did, yeah.

Uh, and that phrase, which at the time might have seemed

slightly

chilling, actually reflected the particular sense of

aristocratic entitlement that the Spencers have.

And if you look back to the 18th century, the Spencers were the

powers in the land. You know, they were a group of aristocratic

families who disposed of power in a way which

was, for them, their natural entitlement.

So Charles won't consider himself to have been someone who was blessed by close

association with the royal family.

He will think himself not the King's equal, but actually

someone, uh, with a, uh, uh, deeper roots in

England and a greater sense of what is proper, and therefore,

he will feel that

on behalf of that oligarchy, essentially, he's striking back