With other children, and, when choosing sides for games, to select the SheĮncouraged his kind and gentle nature-the eagerness to share his candy She never hesitated to give her grandson the hugs he craved. Was the person who taught me to look at things,” he recalled.Īs heir to the throne, he made an inviting target for school-mates, She also opened up a world of music and art thatĬharles felt his parents didn’t adequately appreciate. When he was five, she let him explore Shaw Farm, in the Sit on her bed playing with her lipsticks, rattling the tops, marvelingĪt the colors. Visited her frequently at Royal Lodge, her pale-pink home in Windsor Onetime private secretary, observed that Charles “must have beenīaffled by what a natural mother-son relationship was meant to beĬharles was indulged by his maternal grandmother, the Queen Mother, and Months on a tour of Commonwealth nations. May 1954, when the Queen and Prince Philip greeted five-year-old CharlesĪnd three-year-old Anne with handshakes after an absence of nearly six That lack of tactile connection was achingly apparent in Neither parent was physicallyĭemonstrative. She relied increasingly on her husband to When Elizabeth became Queen, her dedication to her duties meant even less time for her children. The young prince wilted, retreating farther into his shell. ButĬharles’s younger sister, a confident extrovert, could push back, while He was sarcastic with his daughter, Anne, as well. More often than not, the duke was a blunt instrument, unable to resist Shut up,” Charles answered without hesitation: “The whole time, yes.” “tough disciplinarian” and whether he had been told “to sit down and Asked inĪn interview when he was 20 years old whether his father had been a with her husband, Stephen Smith.As Philip watched these traits emerging, he worried that Charles couldīecome weak and vulnerable, so he set about toughening him up. Sally Bedell Smith is the mother of three children and resides in Washington, D.C. In 2020 she was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.) by Wheaton College, Norton, Massachusetts, her alma mater. Smith was also the consultant to playwright Peter Morgan on The Audience, his award-winning drama about Queen Elizabeth II starring Helen Mirren. She received the 2012 Washington Irving Medal for Literary Excellence, an award presented by the Saint Nicholas Society of the City of New York, and Elizabeth the Queen won the 2012 Goodreads Choice Award for best book in history and biography. In 2012 Ms. She previously worked at Time and The New York Times, where she was a cultural news reporter. Smith was a contributing editor at Vanity Fair from 1996 to 2018. Paley. Translations of her books have been published in more than a dozen countries.Īn on-air contributor to CNN since 2017 offering analysis and commentary on the British royal family, Ms. Smith has also written best-selling biographies of King Charles III, Queen Elizabeth II, Diana, Princess of Wales, John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Pamela Harriman, and William S. Her latest, George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage That Saved the Monarchy (Random House 2023) is the definitive biography of the late Queen Elizabeth II’s mother and father, based for the first time on special access to their letters and diaries in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle that was granted to the author by the Queen Sally Bedell Smith is the New York Times best-selling author of eight biographies.
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