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Since the Coronation is tomorrow, I thought it fitting to begin this tonight. #KingCharles #Coronation 👑 🤴

Highly recommended to me by someone who loves to read about #TrueBlue -bloods, especially the British royalty. I grabbed this as a #BookOutlet buy, but have yet to read it. #Movember

Looks like Prince Charles and Harry are US History books?

This is a very long, thoroughly researched book, and you‘d probably have to be very, very interested in the Royal Family to enjoy it. Fortunately, I am, and found this both an honest and sympathetic portrait of the prince. I‘m not sure I‘d like him in person, but it does help to understand him a bit better.

What the incomparable Elaine Stritch said to Camilla Parker Bowles when they met. #currentlyreading #ElaineStritch

I'm enjoying this even more than I expected I would! I liked this author's biography of the Queen quite a bit, and this one is every bit as good. #currentlyreading

One of the library staff and I swap book recommendations. She absolutely loved this and told me I had to read it. If British royalty is your thing, take a look at the latest Charles biography. I was told it is unbiased, which would be nice - present all of the good and the bad of someone for readers to see the whole person. Looking forward to reading this! #recommendedtoyou #autumnreads

Very up to present date bio.

The #book #loving or is it #blocking ? is strong with this one.#BookKitty #Tallulah-Bell

Unfortunately #Beasley is channeling #PrinceCharles' angst

At times this was tedious, but I stuck it out. I understand a bit more how the marriage to Princess Diana was initiated and some reasons it failed. I warmed up to Camilla, which shocked me. I didn't know how many interests and causes he has. But come on Prince Charles, it's time to use technology. He answers Email with handwritten notes.

This was a fascinating and thoroughly readable biography of a person whom I apparently didn't know much about! The author shows some bias at some points, to the point where I had to remind myself to be objective, but otherwise an entertaining read!

"Oooo! I like the end papers!" That's MY grandson!

I really enjoyed this biography of Prince Charles. I follow the royals pretty closely but I still learned things from this very detailed book. (Possibly a little too detailed). These are some of the photos from it that I liked.

I spent today pretending to be British at a tea party and garden tour, then finishing this new biography of Prince Charles. A great Sunday!

Some royal reading for the weekend! It's Will and Kate's anniversary but I don't have any books about them. #CurrentlyReading #royals #nonfiction

Biographies irritate me; this one was less annoying than many. Going in, I thought Charles was freakish, interesting, unlovable, and that he may well rise to the occasion and not be a complete disaster on the throne; this book did little to sway or deepen any of those impressions. Still, I really enjoyed the gossip.

Stop the presses! Apparently, that fun fact about Prince Charles's valet squeezing toothpaste onto HRH's toothbrush each morning is an unfair exaggeration. The valet, Michael Fawcett, only did that for a short time in the early nineties after the prince had broken his arm. So there, that's cleared up. I think we can all now agree Charles is as down-to-earth as the rest of us, the People's Prince, so to speak.

I knew that Camilla is the great granddaughter of Alice Keppel, Edward VII's long-term mistress, and had heard the story about Camilla's pick-up line when she first met Charles ('My great grandma was your great-great-grandpa's mistress, so how about it?'). But I didn't know that Keppel was still alive when Camilla was born in July 1947—she died a few weeks later, never seeing the baby—nor that Camilla is about a year-and-half older than Charles.

Oh my. I knew Lord Mountbatten—assassinated by the IRA in '79—Charles's great-uncle but more like a father really, was a playboy but I had no idea that he and Edwina, his wife of nearly 4 decades (she died in 1960) had a completely open marriage, she being the more polyamorously inclined of the two! Among her many lovers, each welcomed into the Mountbatten family by her hubby, embraced as uncles by their kids, was Prime Minister Nehru of India!

This bio is rather good. I thought I knew all the royal gossip but this was news to me: before he married Camilla, Andrew Parker-Bowles briefly dated Princess Anne. (Camilla had also gone out with Charles prior to getting hitched with AP-B but that's old news.) AP-B's parents were close friends of the Queen Mother, and he was a page boy at QEII's coronation. Through it all, including his & Camilla's divorce, he and Anne have remained firm friends.

Just started ,I've always been curious about him,what his life was like as a child his relationship with the Queen&Prince Philip.For fans of The Crown this would be added background.Have a feeling this will be a gossipy read .I'm also a fan of the author,

Biographies about the royals from Queen Victoria on down are my guilty reading pleasure - I'm going to do this on audio so don't expect many quotes. He's so unlovable, but actually quite a fascinating fella...