When King Charles sat down with his official biographer, Jonathan Dimbleby, in the early ‘90s, he divulged more than Prince Philip thought was appropriate, according to one royal author. Gyles Brandreth, who has been a friend of the Royal Family for decades, shared that the late Duke of Edinburgh wasn’t thrilled about some of the comments the then-Prince of Wales allowed Dimbleby to publish—specifically about Charles’s childhood.
Brandreth worked alongside Prince Philip for years at one of the royal’s first charities he took on, Fields in Trust, and wrote that the late duke found Charles to be “self-indulgent” and thought his eldest son complained too much. “He felt he spent too much time thinking about himself, feeling sorry for himself, brooding about how tough it was to be the Prince of Wales,” Brandreth added.
