King Charles’ former school chum Johnny Stonborough believes that the monarch will likely be a “kinder” sovereign attributable to his years of being “mercilessly bullied.”
Stonborough claimed that the previous Prince of Wales hated his time at Scotland’s Gordonstoun School within the Sixties, and the traumatic experience has made him a more “empathetic” individual.
He said Charles was “painfully shy” as a teen, and bullies would goal him due to his ears and his position within the royal family.
Charles’ ex-classmate wrote an essay for the Telegraph recently during which he alleged that it was “common knowledge” at the college that the young prince, now 74, was being picked on.
There was one instance where Stonborough — who met him when the royal was 13 — recalled seeing the actual taunting happen at a rugby game.
“A few the boys decided it will be funny to ‘do’ him. This meant punching him, pulling his ears, all out of sight within the scrum,” he wrote for the British outlet.
“[Charles] never said a word. He just got on with it. Never complain, never explain,” he added.
Stonborough also suggested that Charles was afraid to talk up and hit back at his haters attributable to the college’s famous French motto: “Plus est en vous,” which roughly translated to English means, “There may be more in you than you think that.”
Stonborough claimed that Charles’ “only friend” in school was his bodyguard, Sergeant Green, because it was difficult for the royal to make pals with the opposite males since bullies would also often mock anyone who went near Charles.
Nonetheless, when Charles was just 14, Green was discharged from his post after he allowed the Duke of Cornwall to slurp a cherry brandy one evening.
Except for Charles’ physical features being the subject of dialogue amongst his trolls, he was even teased for not having the right form of coat when the weather would turn out to be frigid.
As he reached his late teens, Charles became more comfortable with himself and decided to take a stab at student theater, in keeping with Stonborough, who said that allowed Charles to “let his guard down” and talk along with his fellow peers.
“Gordonstoun gave him his love of the natural world and his empathy with people from all walks of life,” Stonborough said of the college’s effect on the young royal.
“It would even give some solace to countless British children to know their King was bullied and survived,” he added.
Stonborough previously opened up about Charles’ highschool experience in an interview with “Good Morning Britain” last yr.
He suggested that although Charles was a “vivid” man with a “humorousness” in school, he was also “isolated.”
“We felt pretty sorry for him even on the time, but the issue was that even attempting to be friends with him meant that you just then got bullied for being one among the King’s friends. It was a reasonably harsh environment,” Stonborough claimed.
