Royal Family News: Queen Elizabeth And Prince Charles’ Complicated Relationship

British royal family news shows that there was a time when King Charles and his late mother Queen Elizabeth appeared to have little in common in regard to day-to-day life. One royal expert notes however, that as the decades passed and Charles became closer and closer to assuming the position she had for what seemed a lifetime, they developed a close bond.

Royal Family News – King Charles Is Now Monarch

Robert Jobson’s book, King Charles: The Man, the Monarch, and the Future of Britain, states that for a time the queen and her husband, Prince Philip, regarded Charles as “loose cannon” a sensitive and emotional child.

Prince Charles was born on November 14, 1948. He was four years when the queen ascended the throne at the age of 25. Biographer Philip Ziegler has said, “I think any idea of a family in the normal sense was knocked on the head by the queen’s accession at such an early age.”

The queen had every intention of being a hands-on mom, but the monarchy intruded. Charles once said, “Mummy [was] a remote and glamorous figure who came to kiss you goodnight, smelling of lavender and dressed for dinner.

Royal Family News – The Queen Was Very Busy

Royal expert Richard Fitzwilliams said that in 1953, the newly crowned Elizabeth and Prince Philip left for a six-month tour of the commonwealth. Charles was so excited upon her return that he ran up to her but she said, “No, not you, dear,” as there were dignitaries to be met.

Luckily, “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.”

But not helping matters, Dimbleby notes that, “Philip often bullied his son and worked hard to toughen him up. In the queen’s defense, “The relations between parents and children were very different in those days.”

And so as Charles grew up, “He seemed eager to impress his mother and to perform the increasing duties she bestowed on him.”

Royal Family News – Charles Has The Ultimate Opportunity

Fitzwilliams said that, “more recently, as the queen began to recognize Charles’s enormous charitable contributions, and as he’s settled into a happy life with Camilla, it seemed their mother-son relationship improved. As time has passed, they have got closer. I think there’s no doubt that I think he tremendously admires his mother. I think that there is a strong mutual respect.”

Charles now has the ultimate opportunity to make his mother proud. Thus far he has performed splendidly and there is every reason to believe he will go right on doing so as he forges a monarchy of his own.

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