Memo lays bare Prince Charles146; complaints

8216;8216;Why do they all seem to think they are qualified to do things far beyond their technical capabilities?8217;8217; the Prince of Wales continued. 8216;8216;This is to do with the learning culture in schools, as a consequence of a child-centred system which admits no failure.8217;8217;

8216;8216;People think they can all be pop stars, High Court judges, brilliant TV personalities or infinitely more competent heads of state without ever putting in the necessary work or having natural ability. This is the result of social utopianism, which believes humanity can be genetically and socially engineered to contradict the lessons of history.8217;8217; The memo concludes: 8216;8216;What on earth am I to tell Elaine? She is so PC politically correct, it frightens me rigid.8217;8217;

8216;Elaine8217; is Elaine Day, who served as a secretary for the Prince8217;s household, helping to organise his many activities and even helping to write speeches, from March 1999 until last April. Day, who is of Afro-Caribbean origin, alleges that she was the victim of sexual harassment and wrongful dismissal, in a case that opened yesterday before a Labour tribunal in Croydon, South London. 8212;PTI