Where does the King's grumpiness come from? Partly, from a lifetime of pampering, writes Harry Mount When he travels, his bed is flown out with him. A cushion is laid on chairs below the royal posterior. A valet mixes Martinis to his specification.
The young Princess Elizabeth had had the benefit of the close, loving attention of her parents, George VI and the Queen Mother, before their heavy destiny fell on her shoulders.
It didn’t help that Charles’s education was full of grim, unrelenting misery. His great fame made him a target forat Cheam and Gordonstoun. Those were the same schools his father, Prince Philip, attended. Therein lies the problem. Like many a father who loved his school, Prince Philip made the mistake of thinking his son would love it, too.
Prince Philip’s uncle, Lord Mountbatten, said he “could see that Charles was a terribly sensitive boy who was going to come up against, and he thought he should help him not to take to heart a lot of the things that children take to heart, and not rush to pick him up every time he fell over and say, ‘Oh dear, dear have you hurt yourself’ but rather, ‘Oh come on, that’s not so bad.
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