‘The pampered, petulant, self-pitying Prince. A devastating book by Britain’s top investigative author’ Daily Mail‘Explosive new book delves inside the bizarre, ultra luxury world of Prince Charles’ The SunBest-selling author Tom Bower reveals the power, passion and defiance of Prince Charles.Few heirs to the throne have suffered as much humiliation as Prince Charles. Despite his hard work and genuine concern for the disadvantaged, he has struggled to overcome his unpopularity. After Diana’s death, his approval rating crashed to 4% and has been only rescued by his marriage to Camilla. Nevertheless, just one third of Britons now support him to be the next king.Many still fear that his accession to the throne will cause a constitutional crisis. That mistrust climaxed in the aftermath of the trial of Paul Burrell, Diana’s butler, acquitted after the Queen’s sensational ‘recollection’. In unearthing many secrets surrounding that and many other dramas, Bower’s book, relying on the testimony from over 120 people employed or welcomed into the inner sanctum of Clarence House, reveals a royal household rife with intrigue and misconduct. The result is a book which uniquely will probe into the character and court of the Charles that no one, until now, has seen.
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Tom Bower. Rebel Prince: The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles – the explosive biography, as seen in the Daily Mail
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Preface
1. New York, 22 September 1999
2. Plots and Counterplots
3. The Masters of Spin
4. Uneasy Lies the Head
5. Mutiny and Machiavellism
6. Body and Soul
7. The Masterbuilder
8. Teasing the Government
9. Diana’s ‘Rock’
10. A Family at War
11. A Butler’s Warnings
12. A Struggle for Power
13. A New Era Begins
14. Shuttlecocks and Skirmishes
15. The Queen’s Recollection
16. A Private Secretary Goes Public
17. Money Matters
18. Whitewash
19. Revenge and Dirty Linen
20. Drowning Not Waving
21. New Enemies
22. For Better or Worse
23. Resolute Rebel
24. Rules of Conduct
25. King Meddle
26. The Divine Prophet
27. Scrabbling for Cash
28. Marking Time
29. The Prince’s Coup
Picture Section
Acknowledgements
Sources
Index
Also by Tom Bower
About the Publisher
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Kilkenny had already been advising Charles to shed his ‘uncool’, fogeyish image. As usual with such requests, Charles expected Kilkenny to work without payment. The publicist might expect a Cartier clock embossed with Charles’s crest, but nothing more. The prince’s plan for Camilla’s divorce had been discussed at a meeting between himself, Dimbleby (present as a close friend), Camilla and her sister Annabel Elliot, Annabel’s husband Simon, Aylard and Kilkenny at the home of Patty and Charlie Palmer-Tomkinson. The Palmer-Tomkinsons lived seventy miles from Highgrove and were close friends, particularly after an incident in Switzerland in 1988, when an avalanche had swept Charles and his skiing party towards a cliff edge. Andrew Parker Bowles was not told about the summit.
The plan backfired when news of the Parker Bowleses’ divorce was leaked and private photographs of the family, stolen from their home, were published. Over the following months Kilkenny did his best, but by the middle of 1996 Charles feared that Camilla’s cause was being pushed ‘the wrong way and too hard’.
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