Young King Charles had little in common with his straightforward, undemonstrative mother—but as decades passed, the duo developed a close bond.
In his own family, Charles found a soulmate in his grandmother Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, the first in a long line of older matriarchs the prince would become close with. The Queen Mother, who Charles called “the most magical grandmother you could possibly have,” nurtured his love of arts and culture, taking him to performances and nursing him when he was sick and his parents were away.
“Observing friends were also frustrated by the failure of the child’s mother to intervene by protective word or gesture,” Dimbleby writes. “She was not indifferent so much as detached, deciding that in domestic matters she would submit entirely to the father’s will.”
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