ROYAL CHILDREN
by
Ingrid Seward
Editor of Majesty Magazine
The words of the future King George VI echoed down through the generations, to be spoken again by his great-grandson, Prince William, "I don't want to be a king, I want to be a policeman" added the Prince.
But as his grandfather, Prince Philip, admits, "However hard you try, it's almost impossible to bring them up as ordinary children." The "training" starts the moment they are born. It was in the nurseries of Sandringham, Windsor, Balmoral and Buckingham Palace that the characters of generations of royal children were formed, and it was in those early years that the foundations for the troubled lives of Queen Elizabeth, Charles, Diana, Andrew and Fergie were laid.
From, Princess Elizabeth, who was never allowed to get dirty, to Prince Charles, who, after the age of eight, was never again embracedby his mother, to Princes Harry and William, who had to cope with the very public breakdown of their parents marriage, royal children have lived privileges and rigors unknown to any other child.
Previously unpublished photographs from the private collections of the royal family and the Windsor archives illustrate this fascinating portrait of a world where royal children were surrounded by extra-ordinary luxury but expected to behave at all times like miniature adults - a world that was rich and strange and unlikely ever to be seen again. Ingrid Seward's unprecedented access to the royal family, including exclusive interviews with its members as well as those who knew them in childhood, offers rare insight into the royal children - from thr Queen to her grandchildren - and how their upbringing has contributed to today's turmoil
First Published in 1994
Hardback with photographs - Excellent Condition
US Edition Published by St Martins Press
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