Prince Charles Quotes

“Poet Laureate John Betjeman composed a “Wedding Ode of Joy” to celebrate the marriage. His verses ended by casting back to Charles’s 1969 investiture in Wales when “you knelt a boy, you rose a man. And thus your lonelier life began.” Now, he wrote, “The scene has changed, the outlook cleared. The loneliness has disappeared.” He could not have been more mistaken.”
― Sally Bedell Smith, Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life

“later. In a letter written on his return home, he thanked his friend for his “support”
― Sally Bedell Smith, Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life

“Charles and their advisers and staff dealt with Diana’s bewildering and often infuriating behavior by placating her, trying to distract her, and ultimately, out of frustration, abandoning her.”
― Sally Bedell Smith, Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life

“jejune”
― Sally Bedell Smith, Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life

“designed”
― Sally Bedell Smith, Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life