Dark Secrets You Never Knew About the Life of Prince Charles

Grandma’s boy

Both the queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, though regal and distinguished, are also both very outdoorsy. Therefore it would make sense that they’d hoped their firstborn son would share their interest in nature and horses. Unfortunately, that was not the case with the sickly Prince Charles.

According to The New Yorker,

Too physically uncoordinated to be any good at team sports, too scared of horses to enjoy riding lessons, and too sensitive not to despair when, at the age of eight, he was sent away to boarding school, he was happiest spending time with his grandmother the Queen Mother, who gave him hugs, took him to the ballet, and, as he later put it, “taught me how to look at things.”

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