The queen is “constantly frustrated by Prince Charles”, who “will never live up to her sense of duty”, a royal expert said in a new documentary.
Clive Irving, the author of the new biography The Last Queen, believes that no member of the royal family has “complied” with Her Majesty’s sense of duty.
During the Channel 4 documentary Queen Elizabeth: Love, Honor and Crown, which airs tonight at 9 p.m., Irving claims that the 94-year-old queen “never really understood” her eldest son Charles. , 72, heir to the throne and is “puzzled by it.
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The Channel 4 documentary, Queen Elizabeth: Love, Honor and Crown, airing tonight at 9pm, sees royal commentators discussing the Queen’s relationship with her eldest son and heir to the throne. Author Clive Irving said the monarch is “constantly frustrated” by Prince Charles (Pictured: Queen and Prince Charles at the 2019 Braemar Highland Games)
Irving also said that the queen is more attracted to being “openly affectionate” with Prince Andrew (pictured: Prince Charles, Prince Andrew and the Queen at Buckingham Palace in 2019)
Irving also claims that Prince William is the only royal who fully appreciates the monarch’s “very indebted sense of duty,” saying, “Everyone around the queen never measures this at any time. Her own family did not rise to this. Charles never measures that.
The royal author also said that the queen is more attracted to Prince Andrew, aged 61, than to his older brother, saying: “So far, she is more openly affectionate towards Andrew and more forgiving towards Andrew than she is. to Charles ”.
Also discussing the various characters of the brothers, Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, called Charles “the polar opposite of younger brother Andrew.”
She said, “He is [Andrew] noisy, boring, very charming, when he wants to be. He can be arrogant and rude; he has some characteristics of his own father.
Clive Irving, filmed during a recent interview about his latest book, The Last Queen, is one of many royal commentators appearing in the Channel 4 documentary
Seward added that Andrew’s active service in the navy following Prince Philip, including piloting helicopters on missions during the Falklands War, ensured that he returned “like a war hero, his mother was proud.”
She said that, first and foremost on the throne at the time, Charles and Andrew represented “everything that could be a monarchy.”
The documentary claims to be a “thorough examination of several dramatic conflicts between the crown and the family during the queen’s long reign” and begins with an examination of the early romance of the queen and Prince Philip in the mid-1940s.
This week, a source close to the royal family claimed that Prince William did not believe he was “trapped” in the British monarchy system, which was claimed by Prince Harry.
The couple’s 1947 wedding was, it is discussed, supposed to be a discreet affair, but it was diverted by the need to offer a post-war jubilee and turned into a much bigger national holiday.
The program also suggests that Prince Philip, 99, who is recovering from a month-long hospital stay in London after a recent period of ill health, has played a significant role in modernizing the monarchy.
The declassified documents obtained by Channel 4 also reveal that the queen granted him permission for the unhappy engagement of Princess Margaret with the divorced group captain Peter Townsend – but that the monarch had to conclude an agreement with the then prime minister Anthony Eden for a possible wedding with get the green light from the Government
The documentary contains now declassified documents, including one that sheds light on Princess Margaret’s unfortunate fiancé with group captain Peter Townsend, a divorce that was equal to King George VI’s.
The queen could not give her consent for a wedding to continue, because she is the head of the Church, which did not allow divorce to marry in the church at that time in history – but some claimed that the monarch tried to “marry, which the documents now reject.
The documents obtained by Channel 4 show that the then prime minister, Anthony Eden, had to give his consent, and the queen and the prime minister reached an agreement for a wedding to continue. However, the couple failed to reach the aisle, but Princess Margaret eventually canceled their love affair.
This week, a source close to the royal family claimed that Prince William did not believe he was “trapped” in the British monarchy system, which Prince Harry said during his interview with Oprah Winfrey earlier this month.
Instead, the Duke of Cambridge, who is second to the throne behind his father, has “accepted” his role and “the path that has been prepared for him,” say royal sources.
“He is his grandmother’s nephew in terms of duty and service,” the source, who is close to both brothers, told the Sunday Times.
Queen Elizabeth: Love, Honor and Crown is broadcast on Sunday, March 21, at 21:00, on Channel 4