Prince Charles The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life

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Filled with fresh insights into his life and loves, Prince Charles is the first major biography of England’s king-in-waiting in more than twenty years. Sally Bedell Smith, author of the New York Times bestseller Elizabeth the Queen, returns once again to the British royal family to give us a vivid, eye-opening account of life as a Windsor. Beginning with Charles’s lonely childhood, when he struggled to live up to his father’s expectations, and continuing through his difficult years at school, his early love affairs, his intellectual and entrepreneurial pursuits, his tragic first marriage, and his eventual reunion with his true love, Camilla, Prince Charles brings to life the real man, with all of his ambitions, insecurities, and convictions. Drawing upon hundreds of sources, many of whom are speaking on the record for the first time, this is the surprising and definitive portrait of the man who will be king.