Another book, another excerpt.  This time, from William & Kate: A Royal Love Story by Christopher Andersen.  The excerpt tackles their brief 2007 breakup that was famously splashed all over the papers, and claims that Prince Charles played a hand on the breakup.  (What or who to believe regarding these private details is anyone’s guess…)

Now that he was embarking on a military career, William complained that his relationship with Kate felt “confining” and “claustrophobic.” More important, the recurring nightmare he was having about her being chased to her death by the paparazzi was making him ever more anxious.

William went to his father for guidance. Ironically, Prince Charles’s affection for Kate was precisely what led him to recommend dumping her. He did not bother asking if Wills and Kate were in love; when asked that question after proposing to Diana, Charles famously answered, “Whatever love means.” But he did ask his son if he planned to marry “in the end.”

Pointing out that he was just shy of his twenty-fifth birthday, William told his father he was not ready to promise marriage to anyone. Then end it now, Charles urged his son. By stringing her along, Papa said, William was being “completely unfair to Kate.” Equally important, Charles, who had been pressured by his own father to marry Diana, was not about to make the same mistake with his own son.

Read the rest: William and Kate excerpt (NBC)
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Why Charles is Too Dangerous to be King

A snipe at Prince Charles’ intense passion for things and his influence on government decisions…

As the Queen gets older, growing ­attention and speculation is focusing on the ­monarchy’s future. Opinion polls show that most British people would like Prince William to become heir to the throne, bypassing his father, the Prince of Wales. But courtiers vigorously declare that’s not going to happen.

At the heart of the Queen’s brilliant success for almost 60 years is that we have been denied the slightest clue as to what she thinks about anything but dogs and horses. Her passivity has been inspired, because her subjects can then attribute any ­sentiments they choose to her. She has never said a word to raise a hackle.

Prince Charles, by contrast, wears his heart on his sleeve. He outraged the medical ­profession by bullying the last government into providing NHS funding for his cherished homeopathic ­medicine. This, doctors pointed out, meant transferring tax­payers’ money from proven remedies to quackery — panaceas for which there is no scientific evidence at all.

Read the rest: Daily Mail

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