Prince Charles As the Green Marie Antoinette

The Independent runs a scathing attack on Prince Charles as the "Prince of Green Hypocrites" by Julie Burchill. The title reads "So the Prince of Green Hypocrites is going on tour." The subtitle: "Green is the first socio-political movement in which every single leader and spokesperson is filthy rich."

Burchill focusses her attack on Charles' upcoming "sustainable" development tour of Great Britain, where he will be "riding the Royal Train, which runs on sustainable biofuel — and hot air —– hosting a five-day series of meetings and receptions along the way." She reminds readers that this is the same train where "this man of principle used to sleep with the wife of a brother officer while engaged to a virgin he chose like a broodmare. Happy days of our glorious heritage!" He will be promoting his green "sustainable living" agenda.

She compares the fact that in the past three years, according to the website mySupermarket.co.uk, shoppers are paying 58% more for rice, 30% more for a keep-calm-and-carry-on cuppa and 18% more for soap, bread and eggs, with Charles' life-style where he has "up to half a dozen boiled eggs served to him at breakfast until he finds, in the manner of Goldilocks, one which is cooked to his liking." She quotes Jeremy Paxman's book on royalty: "If the Prince felt that number five was too runny, he could knock the top off number six or seven," pointing out that Charle's own flock of hens "live in a £10,000 hen house modelled on a Saxon steeple and made of environment-friendly green oak."

She then cites Charles' support for high food prices in 2002.

She writes in comment :"As I said, I'll be abroad when the clown prince spreads the word amongst us planet-polluting proles, but if I were to meet him, I'd have two words for him —– yes, apart from those —– and those two words would be MARIE ANTOINETTE. I've said it before, but it bears repeating; Green is the first socio-political movement in which every single leader and spokesperson is filthy rich –— with PC himself at the top of the pile. Let them eat Duchy Originals cake, eh Charles?..."

While Burchill, a left-wing Lesbian feminist, is known for wild commentaries, this one was one of the leading articles in the Independent's web edition and was also named an "editor's choice."