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In praise of our future King

Far from being agitated, restless and frustrated, the 65-year-old heir to the throne is ready for prime time

9 November 2013

9:00 AM

9 November 2013

9:00 AM

On 14 November the Prince of Wales reaches his 65th birthday, the age when, in Britain, he would in almost any other walk of life be pensioned off. However the Prince has not even begun his own job yet — the one to which he was born and about which he has had no say.

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Simon Heffer is author of, most recently, High Minds: The Victorians and the Birth of Modern Britain (Random House).

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