![]() ![]() A sulkily hot young Prince Charles with his parents. Even as an older man, like in the era this latest season of The Crown was set, Charles had a certain something going for him, in a “wealthy, powerful man who has a yacht and a really good tailor” kind of way. ![]() When you go back into the archives-as with this sulky-hot Charles slouching through a boring event with his parents, wishing he was doing something much more fun with you-it gets a bit easier to understand how a teenage Diana Spencer might have nursed the massive crush on him that she did. (Insert childish innuendo here.)ĭitto his military connections, which included an active stint in the navy in his early 20s that gifted us with pinup-worthy snaps of Charles in his dress whites somewhere tropical. He drove expensive sports cars and wore aviators and beautifully tailored suits at a time when many young British men his age were not so fashionable and was active enough to make finding vintage pap snaps of him changing shirts at a polo match worth the weird Google search history.Ī post shared by The Royal Pages the polo: Charles was obviously a beneficiary of the time-honoured equation that any man, however forgettable he may be when not in jodhpurs, is delivered an instant hotness boost when he’s astride a polo pony, swinging that mallet as sweat drips from his furrowed brow. He was also rich, intelligent and apparently quite charming in the same self-effacing, dry-witted way that Prince William is now. For one, he would one day be king-a more enticing proposition back then, perhaps, than it is now that we know what a rough deal being a Windsor wife can be. The guy was enough of a serial dater of titled, aristocratic young women that he even dated Diana’s older sister before they got together.Īfter all, he had a lot going for him. His mentor, Lord Mountbatten, apparently told him it was his duty to “sow his oats”-ew-before he settled down, a challenge Charles took to heart. However, in his day, to a certain sort of a person, Charles was a low-key hottie who had bit of a rep as a player. ![]() (But isn’t it wild that the details of their divorce settlement were splashed inside the issue an adorably baby-faced Denzel graced in 1996?) ![]() Was he the equal of, say, Denzel Washington, People’s Sexiest Man Alive the year Charles and Diana formally divorced? No one’s saying that. ♬ Fashionable and retro HIPHOP BGM(881868) – Oren In a nutshell, encapsulated by a Vogue headline: “Dominic West is far too hot to play Charles.”īut is he? Better informed corners of the discourse have leapt to the defence of Charles’s attractiveness, such as this excellent TikTok by generally excellent #DominicWest too hot to play #PrinceCharles on the TheCrown’s new season?□□ let’s discuss! #royals #royalfamily #netflixthecrown #kingcharles #britishroyals #charlesandcamilla You see, there’s a large swathe of the royal-curious internet convinced that West’s hotness makes it impossible to suspend your disbelief and imagine that this really is the now-king, who is famous for being, well, a bit of a fuddy duddy who was only able to marry one of the most beautiful women of all time because of his royal status. are your thoughts on the actors who play Prince Charles? □ #PrinceCharles #KingCharles #TheRoyalFamily #TheCrown // original sound – BuzzFeed Now Did the Prince of Wales really lobby the prime minister to help him get the Queen to abdicate? (No.) Did he really say he wanted to be Camilla’s tampon? (Yes.) Were Diana’s phones actually bugged? (At least once.)īut the number 1 talking point on RoyalTok actually surrounds Dominic West’s casting as a 40-something Prince Charles, and no, it’s not “Was it too on-the-nose to cast an actor with a recent infidelity scandal as one of history’s most famous adulterers?” It’s whether Charles was ever foxy enough to warrant such a ruggedly handsome, silver-ish fox portrayal. Among all of the chatter surrounding the latest season of The Crown, a few questions have preoccupied royal-watching corners of the internet. ![]()
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