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Charles Before Diana: A King in the Making (The Royal House of Windsor) Kindle Edition

by Helen Cathcart (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
A revealing biography of Charles, the Prince of Wales’ younger years.

Ideal for people enthralled with the Netlix hit The Crown.

The eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles has been heir to the British throne since he was three years old.

In this lively and illuminating account, royal biographer Helen Cathcart charts the first thirty years of Prince Charles’s life, from his birth at Buckingham Palace in 1948 and rugby-playing schooldays at Gordonstoun, through his undergraduate years cycling to lectures at Trinity College, Cambridge, and subsequent military career in the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy.

Cathcart reveals a young man of many interests – actor, polo player, cellist, helicopter pilot, and conservationist – and takes the reader behind the scenes of notable events in the Princes’ life, including his investiture as Prince of Wales at Caernarfon Castle in 1969 and move to Chevening in 1974, before giving insight into his romantic relationships prior to his marriage to Lady Diana Spencer.

Drawing on an extraordinary fund of private material, Charles Before Diana is an intimate portrait of the man behind the Prince – a man with an endearing sense of comedy and a conscientious devotion to duty.

‘Helen Cathcart writes about royalty as if she were one of them’ – The Daily Mail

‘The doyenne of royal biographers’ – The Daily Telegraph

‘A tireless chronicler of royalty’ – The Guardian
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    141 pages
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  4. Publication date
    July 11, 2021
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About the Author

Helen Cathcart was a prolific writer about the Royal Family, who enjoyed enormous success with her books in the 1960s and 1970s. These emerged with regularity, sold well, and were largely enjoyed (if not always at Buckingham Palace). One mystery surrounded the author-she was never seen. Occasionally journalists visited her agent, Harold Albert, at his cottage near Liphook, and suspected that Helen Cathcart did not exist. Invariably they left less convinced. Only when Harold Albert died was it revealed-in an obituary written by Hugo Vickers-that Harold Albert and Helen Cathcart were one and the same.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B097RBTY5N
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Sapere Books (July 11, 2021)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 11, 2021
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.1 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 141 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.6 3.6 out of 5 stars 38 ratings

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