Prince Charles on BBC radio
The interview with the BBC 2’s Diane Louise Jordan was taped before Sunday but aired on Sunday morning on the program ‘Sunday Hour.’ Prince Charles, who has now left for a six-day tour of the Middle East, suggested that persons who came to Britain should abide by its values and beliefs.
“The radicalization of people in Britain is a great worry, and the extent to which this is happening is alarming, particularly in a country like ours where we hold values dear,” he told Jordan. “You would think the people who have come here, or are born here, and go to school here, would abide by those values and outlooks.”
He said he was worried about the lure of adventure for young Muslim Brits, and the role of the internet, that can lead to radicalization. This foray into the realm of political commentary is seen by royal viewers as another step in his preparation for the day he is given the role of head monarch by his mother, Queen Elizabeth II.
Visit to refugee camp
Already in Jordan, he visited the Za’atari refugee camp near the Syrian border; that camp houses some 85,000 people displaced by the conflict in neighboring Syria. The Guardian reports the prince was “accompanied by the UK’s development secretary, Justine Greening, who pledged £100m in aid to help feed, clothe and shelter civilians caught up in the conflict.”
The Prince visited a football pitch in a camp sports club and had a kickabout with young students of the game. The Daily Mail quoted the head of the sport camp, Eid Sayyar Beni Khaled on the subject of Charles as a footballer: “To be honest, Khaled said. “He’s a player, a real football player.”
The future King was given two gift baskets of fruit from managers of camp markets and looked to be touched upon receiving them. “Please, please,” he said. “That is so very kind of you but you really shouldn’t have.”
He also sympathetically listened to stories of strife from persons forced to flee their homes in Syria due to the civil war there. The prince will meet Jordanian King Abdullah II and visit Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates before returning home.
