Loans Secured Against Prince Charles on Planet Windsor
Loans Secured Against Prince Charles on Planet Windsor
"Charles Philip Arthur George" is the full name
of Britain's Prince Charles, the current Prince of Wales. Charles is the
longest waiting Prince of Wales since his great, great grandfather
Edward waited for HIS mother, Queen Victoria, to shuffle off her mortal
coil. Victoria was loathe to give her son many governmental
responsibilities so Edward largely frittered his life away. However,
when he did ascend to the throne on Victoria's death, he ruled wisely
for the short period of his reign and proved a "bridge" between
Victorian England and modern England. (A superb biography of Edward is
Jane Ridley's recent "The Heir Apparent: The Life of Edward VII, The
Playboy Prince")
But the Prince of Wales that journalist Catherine Mayer writes about in her excellent book, "Born to Be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor", is the current Prince. Best known, perhaps, as Diana's unloving ex-husband, the father to "the Heir and the Spare", George's grandfather, and Camilla Parker Bowles' tampon, Charles is a man whose identity is often at odds with reality.
Mayer, an American-born, UK-based writer, has gone behind the facade the world views Charles. Son of stiff and controlled parents, Charles has evolved into a caring father to his own two sons. But that emotional availability was not there with his first wife. Both Charles and Diana seemed to know their marriage would not succeed; both were needy emotionally and unable to relate to each other. Charles was as much an intellectual as the Windsor family had produced up til his generation, while Diana was both intuitive and emotional. Bad mixture, but they produced two sons who've grown into fine young men, who seem to have inherited the good qualities of both their parents.
Mayer's book is not a white-wash of the Prince of Wales.Read more
Loans Secured Against Prince Charles on Planet Windsor
But the Prince of Wales that journalist Catherine Mayer writes about in her excellent book, "Born to Be King: Prince Charles on Planet Windsor", is the current Prince. Best known, perhaps, as Diana's unloving ex-husband, the father to "the Heir and the Spare", George's grandfather, and Camilla Parker Bowles' tampon, Charles is a man whose identity is often at odds with reality.
Mayer, an American-born, UK-based writer, has gone behind the facade the world views Charles. Son of stiff and controlled parents, Charles has evolved into a caring father to his own two sons. But that emotional availability was not there with his first wife. Both Charles and Diana seemed to know their marriage would not succeed; both were needy emotionally and unable to relate to each other. Charles was as much an intellectual as the Windsor family had produced up til his generation, while Diana was both intuitive and emotional. Bad mixture, but they produced two sons who've grown into fine young men, who seem to have inherited the good qualities of both their parents.
Mayer's book is not a white-wash of the Prince of Wales.Read more
