PRINCE CHARLES HAUNTED BY HIS PAST

Growing anger over the heir’s affair has the Queen facing a most difficult decision

Prince Charles is the first to admit he was never truly embraced by the British public. A dour boy who complained of being under-loved by “cold and distant” parents, he grew into a solemn, introverted young man who felt bullied into taking the “right kind of wife” by his family, the media and his subjects.

When he eventually did by marrying Lady Diana Spencer, she was adored, while he was ignored. After it was revealed that his marriage to the princess was over amid allegations of a long-running affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, he became public enemy number one, with cries echoing from across the Commonwealth that he didn’t deserve to be king.