“‘Abolish the monarchy!’ a tiny voice piped up at the end of the Prince of Wales’s lecture at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London last night. It was a distinctly solitary protest against Prince Charles’s first big speech on architecture for 20 years.” The prince — who even said “sorry” — was in fence-mending mode, “keen to stress that he was more concerned with ‘original, in the true sense’ and ‘organic’ architecture than with recreating past styles.”