如果你有关注英国王室的相关新闻报道，你肯定会留意一件事情，那就是英国王室的前苏赛萨斯公爵哈里王子最近因为要去参加一个运动会的纪念活动，中途在英国伦敦短暂停留，本来人们都以为，哈里王子已经离开王室多年，他的父亲查尔斯国王最近又被确诊患有癌症，作为小儿子的哈里，肯定会借此次在英国伦敦逗留的机会，去探望患病在身的父亲，但是事情的发展最后却挺出人意料。

哈里王子最后并没有利用在英国伦敦停留的机会去探望父亲查尔斯，实际上，是查尔斯拒绝哈里王子的会见请求，王室给出的拒绝会见的理由是，查尔斯国王公务繁忙，时间紧张，没有与哈里王子会面的时间。

虽然王室给出了查尔斯因为工作忙所以没有时间与小儿子哈里王子会面，但是奇怪的是，查尔斯国王却有时间去会见英国著名足球明星大卫·贝克汉姆。    NEW YORK -- On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, rare originals are being displayed and publishers are offering collectors editions of Shakespeare's plays, including one that sells for $1,500.Scholars believe that between 200-300 copies still survive from the late 1623 release of “Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies." Presided over by two friends and former colleagues of Shakespeare, who had died in 1616, the Folio ensured that lasting texts existed for “Macbeth,” “Twelfth Night” and other cornerstones of Western literature. In Shakespeare's lifetime, many of his works were unpublished or available only in cheap paperback editions.“Without the First Folio we would have lost a world of words,” Gregory Doran, artistic director emeritus of the Royal Shakespeare Company, writes in the introduction to “The Complete Plays” of Shakespeare, a new publication.First folios have been on exhibit everywhere from the British Museum to the New York Public Library and at least two major book projects will mark the anniversary. The British Museum is collaborating with Rizzoli Books in New York on “Shakespeare’s First Folio: 400th Anniversary Facsimile Edition,” contained within a slipcase cover. With a list price of $150, the book is 928 pages and includes an introductory booklet co-written by Adrian Edwards, head curator of the British Library’s Printed Heritage Collections.The most ambitious, and exclusive project, is “The Complete Plays,” a limited edition from the Folio Society, an employee-owned company in London that puts out customized volumes ranging from "Beowulf" to George R.R. Martin's “A Song of Ice and Fire” series. The Society has printed just 1,000 copies of the 3-volume box set, with a list price of $1,500. Besides Doran's introduction, the Folio Society release includes a foreword by Dame Judi Dench. Each set is hand-numbered by illustrator Neil Packer.More than three-quarters of “The Complete Plays” have already sold, according to the publisher.“In an era when everything seems disposable, I feel like there's a good market for fine editions of classic books,” says Folio Society publishing director Tom Walker.The First Folio was daring, even audacious for its time, when such publications were “reserved for learned treatises, hefty genealogical texts, books of religious or historiographical importance, or even works by monarchs,” according to Shakespeare scholar Chris Laoutaris. Before Shakespeare the only playwright known to have been so honored was his contemporary Ben Jonson, who honored himself by overseeing “The Workes of Benjamin Jonson” in 1616. While the British Museum edition is relatively affordable, the Folio Society's production is closer to the intended market for the original release."Only those with deep pockets, and the space to read them, could afford such luxurious products," says Laoutaris, an associate professor at the Shakespeare Institute in the playwright's native Stratford-On-Avon and author of “Shakespeare’s Book: The Intertwined Lives Behind the Fist Folio,” which came out this year. “When it was released, the First Folio cost more to produce than any other collection of plays in history up until that point.”The Folio proved successful enough that an updated edition, the Second Folio, was published in 1632, a Third Folio in 1663 and a fourth in 1685. By the 19th century, the original Folio was becoming a valued piece of history, in part through the efforts of collectors Henry and Emily Folger, and a symbol of might for the British Empire. Sir George Grey, who had served as a colonial governor, established libraries worldwide that included copies of the First Folio.“For Grey, the First Folio represented the pinnacle of culture, but specifically English culture,” Laoutaris says. “He sought nothing less than the obliteration of the language and culture of the native populations in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, nurturing a desire to replace these with the English language and its literary products." The United States is home to more than half of all existing copies of the First Folio, followed by the United Kingdom and Japan, with handfuls of editions also existing in Germany, France, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand among other countries. For antiquarians, the First Folio is the greatest of prizes: One sold for $9.9 million in 2020. For scholars and countless admirers, the Folio is secondary to the plays themselves."Shakespeare’s stature, for the past 400 years, is a reflection of his plays’ staying power on the stage far more than their survival in a collected works," says James Shapiro, a professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University and author of several books on Shakespeare.“You can buy a Ben Jonson folio for a few thousand dollars; a Shakespeare folio will cost you millions. The reason for this simple: the remarkable afterlife of his comedies, histories, and tragedies in theaters throughout the world.”。

据英媒在当地时间5月11日发表的一篇报道，尽管查尔斯国王冷落了哈里王子，但他还是在繁忙的日程中抽出时间与足球明星大卫·贝克汉姆见面。

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据报道，在当地时间5月10日，查尔斯国王抽出时间与大卫·贝克汉姆举行了一次私人会面，而此前他曾经表示自己因为“太忙”，抽不出时间与小儿子哈里王子见面。

据《太阳报》报道，癌症缠身的查尔斯在格洛斯郡海格罗夫的家中接待了这位49岁的前英格兰队队长。媒体并没有公布会面过程的照片，也没有报道两人见面后讨论了什么。

此前，查尔斯国王因为紧凑的日程安排而宣称他没有时间会见本周在伦敦待了三天的哈里王子。

C | 哈里王子在没有妻子梅根陪同的情况下从加利福尼亚州飞回往伦敦，参加“不可征服运动会”十周年纪念活动，他曾希望探访父亲查尔斯国王，只可惜查尔斯国王没有时间见他。

一位王室发言人证实，由于查尔斯国王早前因病休养，现在刚刚重返公职，所以工作繁忙，才无法见哈里。

王室公开回应此事时是这样说的：“作为对众多请求见面的回应，由于陛下的工作安排已经有了紧凑计划，所以此次与苏赛萨斯公爵的见面这是不可能举行的。希望公爵理解他父亲的难处。”

实际上，近年来，哈里王子在在多个场合发表了对王室不友好的言辞，特别是他出版了一部令人震惊的王室回忆录《备胎》，在这部回忆录中爆光很多对王室不利的事情后，他与王室的关系已经濒临破裂。

而贝克汉姆曾是“不可征服运动会”的大使，在哈里王子多次公开发表对王室不利言论后，他似乎选择与公爵保持了距离。

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去年有报道称，这位前曼联球星已接受邀请，探索他和查尔斯为国王基金会慈善机构合作的方式，该慈善机构为年轻人提供技能培训。

或许查尔斯国王拒绝与哈里见面，与哈里之前对王室的不友好言辞有关联。王室专家罗伯塔·菲奥里托Roberta Fiorito谈到这件事落时说：“我确实觉得有很多事情在发生，但我无法想象在花园派对或圣保罗看到查尔斯和哈里的重聚会意味着什么。”

对此事，笔者的看法是，查尔斯国王宣称自己工作太忙，没有有时间与哈里王子见面，但是却有时间与足球明星贝克汉姆见面，这种做法会让人不禁产生一股疑问：难道在查尔斯国王的心中，自己小儿子哈里王子的地位，还比不上一个足球明星？查尔斯国王心中有没有真心把哈里当做儿子看待？

对于查尔斯国王是否真心把哈里当儿子看待，其实也有一定的历史渊源，因为哈里王子有红色头发，被很多流言称他是戴妃与情人的私生子，所以很多人认为，查尔斯国王并不怎么看重哈里，这也是哈里觉得自己是“备胎”的重要原因之一。

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实际上哈里刚出生时候，查尔斯就对戴妃说：“你帮我生了一个继承人，和一个备胎，我的任务完成了”这种冷漠的话语，这就让更多人质疑他对小儿子哈里的感情是否真实。

但是，或许事情并非表面这样，可能查尔斯见贝克汉姆只是纯粹工作安排，他确实没有时间与儿子哈里见面，很有可能只是我们想多了，但是查尔斯内心实际是什么想法，或许只有查尔斯自己才知道。