Britain’s latest monarch had an unhappy childhood, a disappointing marriage and a frustrating wait to succeed to the throne. What can his past tell us about his last act?
, having spent almost six months apart from the five-year-old Charles. Grandees lined the deck of the royal yachtto greet the queen. The young Charles tried to jump the queue to reach his mother. “No, not you dear,” she said, batting him away. When it was his turn, she shook his hand.
“I don’t like it much here. I simply dread going to bed as I get hit all night long. I can’t stand being hit on the head by a pillow now” Later, Charles would tell Harry that he had been “persecuted” as a boy. “I remember him murmuring ominously:,” Harry says in “Spare”, his recently published memoir. What kept him going? His teddy bear, which he still hangs on to decades later. “Teddy went everywhere with Pa,” Harry writes. ‘It was a pitiful object, with broken arms and dangly threads, holes patched up here and there…Teddy expressed eloquently, better than Pa ever could, the essential loneliness of his childhood.
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