Evaluate whether the Prince's plan to withdraw from the suffering world was ethical. Explain your answer.

The Prince's plan to withdraw is historically accurate and seen by many as unethical. Over the course of history, numerous monarchs withdrew to the countryside to escape the plague. The question of ethics can be seen in a few different ways. Would it be right for a leader or monarch to knowingly stay somewhere that there is a great chance for infection and death, something that would result in leaving his country without leadership and in chaos? Should they stay and face their fate, as their subjects are forced to do? What do you think?