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Workers must cry freedom if they are to escape the clutches of selfish managers

The Times

It is a struggle, at times, to take Prince Charles seriously and I have to admit that I had a good laugh at his expense when reading an interview he gave to The Sunday Times last weekend about his Duchy Originals organic food concern. It pitched our future regent as some kind of struggling entrepreneur: hilarious given that his business has grown out of a duchy that was created in 1337 by Edward III and was passed down the male line of the royal family to him. There was also an amusing moment when the reporter talked about how His Royal Highness had not been fazed by “the gentle slap of [cow] pats on the barn floor”, as if royal blood somehow makes one incapable