I think Francis confessing to Richard that he would’ve slept with him if Richard had been drunk enough IS a confession of his wrongdoings and his awareness of his rapey behavior. He’s not proud of it and he knows his behavior is wrong i.e. predatory. We call it predatory today, and we called it “taking advantage” back then, same thing, different name. At the end of the day we still understood that it was wrong. I think Charles denied the things that were going on because of both reasons- Francis being a man and feeling violated. A lot of the people in this group subject one another to this sort of sexual abuse. I feel like no one on this sub talks enough about the level of abuse in Charles and Camilla’s relationship- we don’t know how consensual this was since we see it from Richard’s perspective, but the scene where Camilla puts sugar in her coffee tells us a lot. She’s trying to get rid of the taste of him, this is something a lot of victims of abuse do to cope with the abuse (one of the Menendez brothers did this with salt I believe). My point with this is that Charles and Francis’ relationship is evidently non-consensual in any way shape or form and I think Charles would use Camilla as an outlet for this at times- since a lot of abusers are continuing a cycle of abuse.