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Article: Charles,the defender of our culture.(Column)
- Article from:
- The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2006
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Byline: WILLIAM REES-MOGG
Since the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, there have been rather few creative modernisers in the Royal Family - Charles II, whose patronage helped to establish the Royal Society, Prince Albert, who masterminded the Great Exhibition of 1851, and now Prince Charles.
He is, one might say, a postmodernist moderniser, partly reacting against the aesthetic and moral brutalism of the late 20th Century.
None of the three has received much thanks for his attempts to modernise Britain. Our Victorian ancestors were irritated by Albert's serious German idealism. We are now seeing a broadening recognition that Prince Charles has been ...