Long before Prince Harry penned his highly anticipated memoir, Prince Charles took aim at palace life with a TV special and a tome of his own.
But more ominously for the crown, the press also started to question Charles’s fitness to be king. “They’re tolling the bells at Buckingham Palace,”wrote. “The ‘authorized’ biography of the Prince of Wales is a disaster for the queen, the duke, the House of Windsor, and all who sail in that leaky barque. It is bleak irony that the man who would be king has himself contrived to provide the greatest impediment to his ever ascending the throne.
On a personal level, the effects were also devastating. Charles revealed his cold, lonely childhood, during which he was a magnet for ridicule, including from his father, Prince Philip, who was presented as an abrasive bully. “As a little boy,” Dimbleby wrote, Charles was “easily cowed by the forceful personality of his father.”Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
The queen was also in the line of fire, described as a passive and absent mother. The sensitive, artistic prince was said to have felt “squashed and guilty” when his family laughed at his love of Leonardo da Vinci. “Through Dimbleby, Charles made it clear that Diana was nothing more than a hired womb,” Kelley writes. “His level of contempt disappointed people who expected their future King to be high-minded and big-hearted. Through Dimbleby, Charles tried to put his case forward and set right the real and imagined wrongs he felt had been done to him. But he came across as petty and small, and he offended his wife, his parents, his sister, his brothers, his children.
According to Bedell Smith, the book’s characterizations hurt his parents and angered his siblings. All three of his siblings reportedly confronted Charles over the book, withexclaiming publicly that the assertion that the queen was not caring was “just beggars’ belief.”
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