Prince William: Born to be King

Penny Junor

Prince William: Born to be King
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Center Point
Country
Published
1 December 2013
Pages
680
ISBN
9781611738421

Prince William: Born to be King

Penny Junor

His face is recognized the world over and his story is well known. But what is Prince William really like? As Diana’s eldest son he was her playmate and her confidant. While the tabloids eagerly lapped up the lurid details of his parents’ divorce, William lived painfully through it. He suffered the embarrassment, the humiliation and the divided loyalties. He watched his father denounced on prime time television; he met the lovers. And when he was just fifteen his beautiful, loving mother was suddenly, shockingly snatched from his life forever.

His childhood was a recipe for disaster, yet as he approaches his thirtieth birthday, William is as well-balanced and sane a man as you could hope to meet. He has an utter determination to do the right thing and to serve his country as his grandmother has so successfully done for the last sixty years. The question is how?

Who stopped him going off the rails, turning his back on his duty and wanting nothing to do with the press - the people he blamed for his mother’s death? Where did the qualities that have so entranced the world come from? In the last thirty years, Penny Junor has written extensively about both his parents and the extended family into which he was born. With the trust built over that time, she has been able to get closer to the answers than anyone before. This is the first definitive, in-depth portrait of the man who was born to be King and of his relationship with the woman who will be his Queen.

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