Prince Charles urged to 'stay in your lane' by commentator

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Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall, Camilla, were on a tour of the Middle East this week, focusing on a number of issues, including climate change, women’s rights and efforts to preserve cultural heritage. They visited the Al-Ittahadiya Palace, where they received a formal welcome from President Sisi and First Lady Entissar Amer. The royal couple also took in the Great Sphinx on their engagements in Egypt. Charles’s parents, the Queen and Prince Philip, also played an important role for the UK when it came to foreign diplomacy.

Royal biographer Penny Junor claimed that Philip wanted to mould Charles “in his image”, but this didn’t come without difficulty.

In April, following the passing of the Duke of Edinburgh, ITV News produced a special report on the relationship between Philip and Charles.

Ms Junor claimed that Philip reduced Charles to tears on occasions as the Prince of Wales tried to win the approval of his dad.

She said: “Charles desperately, desperately wanted to please his father, desperately wanted to do the right thing and to get his admiration and his praise.

“And the Duke was a particular sort of man, he was an alpha-male, he wanted a son in his own image.

“And Charles was just never that child, and there were many occasions, I am told, that his father did reduce Charles to tears.

“Their interests were very similar, they were both artists, they were both fascinated by wildlife, the Navy and young people.

“The Prince of Wales had his Prince’s Trust and the Duke of Edinburgh has his Duke of Edinburgh award scheme, they were so similar in some ways.”

In 1969, when Charles was asked how much influence his father had had on him, he said: “He lets one get on with what you want to do.

“He hasn’t said: ‘You will do this and that and that, necessarily’, he said now: ‘We think it might be an idea, what do you think?’ and in that sense it has been an influence, a sort of moderating influence, an influence of great wisdom.”

Like his father, Prince Charles qualified as a pilot and to the Duke’s delight, Charles joined the Navy, reaching the same rank as his father when he was made Commander of a Minesweeper in 1976.

However, the father-son bond was tested when Philip urged Charles to either propose to Lady Diana Spencer or end the relationship.

Ms Junor explained: “He received it either as an ultimatum. He wanted to please his father and he wanted to do what he was told.

“He thought his father was telling him to marry Diana. His father was actually saying ‘make your mind up by having Diana on your arm or you are in danger of damaging her reputation, either let her go or ask her to marry you’.”

When Diana and Charles’s relationship began to suffer, Philip wrote to them in order to try and keep the Prince and Princess of Wales together.

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Former Press Secretary to the Queen, Dickie Arbiter, explained: “When there are problems in a marriage, you tend to blame everybody else and you probably kick the traces of your parents because you’re in something you don’t want to be in anymore and it’s your parents fault and it’s a bit of a falling out.”

At their low point the two men communicated through their private secretaries and it took the encouragement of his second wife to help draw Charles back towards his father.

Ms Junor added: “Camilla has helped him and has helped to bridge a gap. Because she really knows how to get on with people, she knows about family.”

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