Prince Charles demanded the Queen get rid of her favourite courtier
At a recent dinner with friends in Mayfair, Philip joked about his determination to live beyond 95.The reason for his and the Queen's longevity, he explained amid his friends' laughter, was to keep Charles from the throne.At 91, he said, the Queen was in robust health —and, he implied, could well live for another ten years.That in turn would mean Charles might be king for only a brief period — and would therefore have little opportunity to damage the monarchy.Philip did not hide his scorn for his son's achievements and vision, and showed little confidence that Charles could impress himself upon history as an exceptional king.Many of those present believed that Philip doubted whether his son, who had barely come to terms with the 20th century, could unify the country in the 21st.The rebel Prince, Philip feared, would become a meddling monarch.The risk was the replacement of tact by wilfulness, causing a constitutional crisis which would jeopardise the monarchy's very existence.As far as Charles was concerned, his relationship with his parents had broken down a long time ago.'My son,' the Queen once complained helplessly to a nobleman, 'resents me because I taught him the alphabet.' Similarly, Philip believes that his son will never forgive him for his apparent 'sins' when Charles was a boy.These include ordering him to wear corduroy trousers to a birthday party; even as a middle-aged man, he still felt the sting of the trivial humiliation of being the only boy in cords.Since then, most of Charles's battles have been with his father, often conducted at one remove through favoured authors.In Jonathan Dimbleby's 1994 biography, the Prince publicly blamed both his parents, though particularly Philip, for giving him an unhappy childhood and forcing him into an unsuitable marriage.Preoccupied by his own emotions, he showed no sympathy for the Duke of Edinburgh's own childhood as an exile, forced to move home constantly while his mother was confined in a Swiss clinic for eight years with paranoid schizophrenia.Seven years after the Dimbleby book, Graham Turner published a semi-authorised biography of Philip.This quoted the Duke of Edinburgh's judgement of Charles as 'precious, extravagant and lacking in the dedication … to make a good king'.Shortly after the book's publication, Philip wrote his son an apology.But in the years since then, their emotional warfare has barely abated.Why, Philip asked, did Charles undermine his parents' frugal lifestyle by indulging in extravagance? Why did he continue his affair with Camilla, whose former husband had been a brother officer? And why did he cultivate trashy American billionaires and continue to sell access to himself? Charles, for his part, found Philip's criticism intolerable.To show his disdain, he would sit in silence through family meetings at Buckingham Palace — knowing that this would annoy his father.Prince Philip, for his part, wasn't above delivering the odd put-down.In 2012, he assigned shooting ri
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