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a request from Diana that she should be allowed to attend. Prince Philip, as the senior royal, would represent Her Majesty, who only attended memorial services for close friends, said a spokesman, confirming that protocol was still the deciding factor. Stung by the rebuff, Diana telephoned the families of the two victims to express her condolences. 'She said she was terribly sorry about what had happened to the family,' said Tim's father Colin Parry. 'She was just very, very sympathetic. She was talking to us as another mother rather than as the Princess of Wales.' it is a great comfort that someone in her position should take the time to think of us,' said Maria Ball.
Charles, wearing the full-dress uniform of a Royal Navy captain although he ceased being a serving officer in 1976, spent the day in Spain. He attended the funeral of King Juan Carlos's father, Don Juan, Count of Barcelona, his first cousin twice removed. This took place in a gloomy granite monastery at San Lorenzo (no relation). Diana did not lunch at her favourite restaurant that day. She stayed alone at Kensington Palace while her sons remained at Highgrove. The result was more critical headlines.
Embittered and middle-aged, Charles could not escape the conclusion that he wanted for nothing, yet lacked something. If he had suffered a mid-life crisis after breaking his arm at polo three years earlier, the collapse of his marriage had induced an outbreak of anger and resentment. Above all, he suffered from wounded pride, a deadly emotion in one surrounded mainly by sycophants.
Filled with self-pity, Charles apparently demanded that Diana apologise to him over her suspected collaboration with Andrew Morton. She refused and, considering the indiscretions of Camillagate, she was quite within her rights. Perhaps Charles should have remembered something he noted early in his marriage: it's amazing what ladies do when your back is turned.'
He had been used to every woman in his life, except the most important, his mother, doing exactly what he wanted. Nannies, governesses and a variety of surrogate mothers, including one of his grandmothers, had led him to believe that women would always be at his beck and call. But Diana, chosen for her youth and compliance, had rebelled against the controls he had sought to impose.
'When Charles gave in to the pressure to marry Diana, Prince Philip probably said to him, "Conduct the marriage carefully and properly and see Camilla on the side,"' said Harry Arnold, the reporter who brought Camillagate to the world, it follows his line. He married the Queen, fathered some heirs and spares and then flitted around the world enjoying the company of other women. I tend to think that this might have been an arrangement with father and son, not father, mother and son. The Queen was probably distraught when she heard about Camilla and probably angry that he got caught. But the Queen has so many regrets at the moment that that may not be on the agenda. You cannot dismiss her role in all this. She failed to recognise the change in the twentieth century.'
Ostensibly searching for a bride, the Prince had turned his own back on quite a few women in his time. 'Girlfriends with whom Charles had affairs had to remember to call him Sir even when passing his underpants,' claimed royal author Sally Moore. Better known ones were invited to call him Arthur, his favourite given name. They might be sharing a bed with Arthur the alter ego, but the heir to the throne remained unsullied. 'He was spoon-fed an Arthurian legend in the nursery that Arthur would return when things were going wrong for Britain,' said the royal historian. 'He'd always identified with that and it explains a lot, but he was actually named after Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, who was Queen Victoria's favourite son.'
Elizabeth's first-born had been christened Charles Philip Arthur George in the Music Room at Buckingham Palace on 15 December, 1948. After a family lunch, the
Charles, wearing the full-dress uniform of a Royal Navy captain although he ceased being a serving officer in 1976, spent the day in Spain. He attended the funeral of King Juan Carlos's father, Don Juan, Count of Barcelona, his first cousin twice removed. This took place in a gloomy granite monastery at San Lorenzo (no relation). Diana did not lunch at her favourite restaurant that day. She stayed alone at Kensington Palace while her sons remained at Highgrove. The result was more critical headlines.
Embittered and middle-aged, Charles could not escape the conclusion that he wanted for nothing, yet lacked something. If he had suffered a mid-life crisis after breaking his arm at polo three years earlier, the collapse of his marriage had induced an outbreak of anger and resentment. Above all, he suffered from wounded pride, a deadly emotion in one surrounded mainly by sycophants.
Filled with self-pity, Charles apparently demanded that Diana apologise to him over her suspected collaboration with Andrew Morton. She refused and, considering the indiscretions of Camillagate, she was quite within her rights. Perhaps Charles should have remembered something he noted early in his marriage: it's amazing what ladies do when your back is turned.'
He had been used to every woman in his life, except the most important, his mother, doing exactly what he wanted. Nannies, governesses and a variety of surrogate mothers, including one of his grandmothers, had led him to believe that women would always be at his beck and call. But Diana, chosen for her youth and compliance, had rebelled against the controls he had sought to impose.
'When Charles gave in to the pressure to marry Diana, Prince Philip probably said to him, "Conduct the marriage carefully and properly and see Camilla on the side,"' said Harry Arnold, the reporter who brought Camillagate to the world, it follows his line. He married the Queen, fathered some heirs and spares and then flitted around the world enjoying the company of other women. I tend to think that this might have been an arrangement with father and son, not father, mother and son. The Queen was probably distraught when she heard about Camilla and probably angry that he got caught. But the Queen has so many regrets at the moment that that may not be on the agenda. You cannot dismiss her role in all this. She failed to recognise the change in the twentieth century.'
Ostensibly searching for a bride, the Prince had turned his own back on quite a few women in his time. 'Girlfriends with whom Charles had affairs had to remember to call him Sir even when passing his underpants,' claimed royal author Sally Moore. Better known ones were invited to call him Arthur, his favourite given name. They might be sharing a bed with Arthur the alter ego, but the heir to the throne remained unsullied. 'He was spoon-fed an Arthurian legend in the nursery that Arthur would return when things were going wrong for Britain,' said the royal historian. 'He'd always identified with that and it explains a lot, but he was actually named after Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, who was Queen Victoria's favourite son.'
Elizabeth's first-born had been christened Charles Philip Arthur George in the Music Room at Buckingham Palace on 15 December, 1948. After a family lunch, the
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