Why King Charles's Parents Hated Him So Much

Britain remembers a love story. Seventy-three years, two thrones, one perfect marriage. Then look at Tobruk, May 1954: a five-year-old boy waits on the deck of Britannia after six months without his mother, and the Queen, by several accounts, shook his hand. Her husband had recently lost his career, his house, and his family name, and told friends he was "nothing but a bloody amoeba." What he was given instead was the boy. Forty years later that boy authorized a biographer to say his parents had failed him. Then he outlived them, and inherited the archive. It began in 1947.