Tikkabik

So Prince Charles is once again in hot water with the British press, this time for muttering some epithets at the press who were asking him questions during a ski vacation with his sons. "Bloody people," he said. "I hate doing this."

He also directed some angry words under his breath (or so he thought) to one particular journalist, a BBC correspondent named Nicholas Witchell.

Let's see -- the press are basically responsible for his ex-wife's death. They've hounded him his entire adult life. They hound his sons, pouncing on any possible slip and making it front page news. They say unkind things about his fiancee. And despite a tacit understanding that the photo op that Charles, Harry and William were engaged in at the time was supposed to be the one and only opportunity for the press to take pictures, the paparazzi got some pics of William and his girlfriend beforehand anyway.

I wouldn't wish that life on my worst enemy. Personally, I think Prince Charles exhibited a hell of a lot more grace under pressure than most of us could muster.