It’s always been suggested that Prince Andrew is The Queen’s favorite son (which has been made quite obvious on countless occasions over the years) but now we know how the 96-year-old monarch feels about her eldest son, Prince Charles. And we have to admit that it wasn’t quite what we were expecting…
According to Tina Brown’s bombshell new book, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor, the Truth and the Turmoil, the Prince of Wales is allegedly “absolutely desperate for his mother’s approval and knows he’ll never really get it.” And that, Brown writes, is because of his “vulnerable, self-centred” character that The Queen reportedly doesn’t like. Omg!
According to one of the many insiders Brown interviewed for her explosive book (she reportedly spoke to over 120 people who are close to the royal family, and even paid several visits to Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall’s Highgrove residence) Charles is "the wrong sort of person" for The Queen. Yikes! "Too needy, too vulnerable, too emotional, too complicated, too self-centred, the sort of person she cannot bear," the source added.
"Arts, charitable causes that aren’t wrapped in a rigid sense of duty – it’s all anathema to her," the insider went on to say, before adding that the late Prince Philip essentially shared The Queen's opinion, saying that he didn’t feel like Charles was "king material." We wonder who Her Majesty would like to see take the throne instead…
