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"I believe it's something that dawns you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't abruptly wake up in my pram 1 day and say 'Yippee, I -', you know. But I believe it just dawns you, you know, little by little, that individuals are considering one, and little by little you get the theory to have a certain obligation and responsibility." - Prince Charles about being heir to the throne The British Royal Family is kept in awe across Britain, plus they have captured the interest of people around the world. Queen Elizabeth II is reputed for her stately demeanor, Prince William and his new partner, Kate Middleton, are considered trendsetters and get attention from media starved for gossip, and no person has kept as unique a location in pop culture as the overdue Diana, Princess of Wales. In the center of everything is Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne. As the firstborn son of the Queen, Charles is definitely under the watchful sight of his countrymen and the press, but his romance with the latter and views of him among the list of former have long been ambivalent, especially compared to the other noteworthy customers of his family. Hampered by his own reserved personality and his aloofness to the attention, the man who may 1 day be Ruler has often been cast as the villain in the central narrative. Charles has never helped his cause by admittedly wanting to pun intended, the media's feeding frenzy, heading as far as to describe the media in 2002 "awkward, cantankerous, cynical, bloody-minded, sometimes intrusive, sometimes inaccurate and sometimes deeply unfair and bad for individuals also to institutions."