![]() “It’s not that she was distant or even cold,” The Queen’s former private secretary, Martin Charteris once said of the late monarch. The Queen and Prince Philip were famously “hands-off” with Charles and sister Anne - far more than with the younger Andrew and Edward. Little has influenced him more than his childhood. Royal confidante Giles Brandreth believes the older, remarried Charles “now feels complete”: He’s made his mistakes, had his scandals, caused embarrassments, been prey to puppet masters, lived through the ups and downs of wildly-fluctuating opinion polls, learned to trust his own mind, loved, lost, rebelled. ![]() Between these two coronations, over those seven decades, his every choice has been overshadowed by the same question, how will this affect me as future King? Only now - years after most his age have retired - does he get to stop auditioning for the part and finally start his job.Īll that waiting has however also shaped the type of king he will be. ![]()
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