‘The fact is he’d be much happier living somewhere like Tuscany, quietly painting,” Diana told me as we sat in her living room at Kensington Palace many years ago. We were talking about life for both of them after the end of her marriage to Prince Charles.
“I just don’t think he’s cut out for the ‘top job’, as I call it, ” she added.
The Princess might well have been right. Our new King probably would be much happier contemplating his navel and an empty canvas on a Tuscan hillside. Who wouldn’t?
