His Struggle, His Burden

Nelson Mandela,27 yearson Robben Island, imprisoned for fighting liberation struggle against racist apartheid regime, global icon of integrity: dissident.

Aung San Suu Kyi, founded opposition to military junta in Burma, spent nine years under house arrest:dissident.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, faced a sentence of internal exile for life at Kol-Terek in southern Kazakhstan for revealing to the world the truth about Stalin's gulags: dissident.

Charles Windsor, dislikes modern buildings,fond of organic biscuits and horsey older women. Owns 650,00 acres of Scotland, personal worth estimated at 33 million pounds: dissident.

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Good one! Although that should be Karl von Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.....

left by delescluze on 22 February 2006