The queen is “constantly frustrated with Prince Charles,” who “will never fulfill her sense of duty,” a real expert said in a new documentary.
Clive Irving, author of the new biography The Last Queen, believes that no member of the royal family has “adjusted” to Her Majesty’s enduring sense of duty.
During the Channel 4 documentary Queen Elizabeth: Love, Honor and Crown, which airs tonight at 9pm, Irving argues that the 94-year-old Queen “never really understood” her eldest son Charles. of 72 years, heir to the throne, and is ”bewildered by him.
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The Channel 4 documentary, Queen Elizabeth: Love, Honor and Crown, which airs tonight at 9pm, sees royal commentators discuss the queen’s relationship with her eldest son and heir to the throne. Author Clive Irving said the monarch is “constantly frustrated” with Prince Charles (pictured: The Queen and Prince Charles at the 2019 Braemar Highland Games)
Irving also said the queen was 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 dedicated sense of duty,” saying, “Everyone around the queen never does so at any time. Her own family has not. measured.Charles never does that.
The royal author also said the queen is more attracted to Prince Andrew, 61, than her older brother, saying: “To this day she is more openly affectionate with Andrew and more forgiving with Andrew than with Charles. “.
Also speaking of the brothers’ various characters, Ingrid Seward, editor-in-chief of Majesty magazine, told Charles “the polar opposite little brother Andrew.”
She said, “He is [Andrew] noisy, rugged, very charming, when you want to be. It can be arrogant and rude; he has some characteristics of his own father.
Clive Irving, filmed during a recent interview on his latest book, The Last Queen, is one of many real-life commentators on the Channel 4 documentary
Seward added that Andrew’s active service in the Navy, after Prince Philip, including piloting helicopters on missions during the Falklands War, said he had returned “as a war hero, his mother was proud.”
He said that as the first and second row to the throne at the time, Charles and Andrew represented “all that could be the monarchy.”
The documentary claims to be an “in-depth examination of various dramatic conflicts between the Crown and the Family during the Queen’s long reign” and begins by looking at the first 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” within the system of the British monarchy, something claimed by Prince Harry.
The couple’s wedding in 1947 was, it is argued, supposedly a discreet affair, but it was hijacked by the need to offer a post-war joy and became a much bigger national celebration.
The program also suggests that Prince Philip, 99, who is recovering from a month-long stay in London hospitals after a recent period of ill health, played a major role in modernizing the monarchy.
The declassified documents obtained by Channel 4 also reveal that the Queen granted him permission for Princess Margaret’s unfortunate engagement to group captain Peter Townsend, who was divorced but had to agree with Prime Minister Anthony Eden to to the potential wedding with getting green light from the Government
The documentary includes documents now declassified, including one that highlights Princess Margaret’s ill-fated commitment to group captain Peter Townsend, a divorcee who was equal to King George VI.
The queen was unable to offer her consent for a wedding to be held because she is the head of the Church, which did not allow the divorced to marry in the church at this time in history, but some have claimed that the monarch had tried to frustrate ‘the marriage, which the documents now refute.
Documents obtained by Channel 4 show that the then Prime Minister Anthony Eden also had to give his consent, and the Queen and the Prime Minister agreed on an agreement to continue the wedding. The couple did not arrive in the hallway, however, with Princess Margarita who finally called off their love story.
This week, a source close to the royal family claimed that Prince William did not believe he was “trapped” within the British monarchy system, which Prince Harry stated during his interview with Oprah Winfrey earlier this year. month.
Instead, the Duke of Cambridge, who ranks second on the throne behind his father, has “accepted” his role and “the path marked out for him,” royal sources say.
“He is very much his grandmother’s grandson in this respect to duty and service,” the source, who is close to the two brothers, told the Sunday Times.
Queen Elizabeth: Love, Honor and Crown airs on Sunday, March 21 at 9pm on Channel 4