Why Prince Philip thought King Charles was ‘self indulgent’

Prince Philip did not like King Charles‘s personality as a young adult.

The former Duke of Edinburgh, who passed away in 2020, was hard on his eldest son, often branding himself indulgent.

Royal expert Gyles Brandreth notes: “He felt he spent too much time thinking about himself, feeling sorry for himself, brooding about how tough it was to be the Prince of Wales.”

Brandreth added that Prince Charles allowed the biographer “to reveal that the Prince felt ‘emotionally estranged’ from his parents and, all his life, had yearned for the kind of affection that, in his view, they were ‘unable or unwilling to offer.’”

“The Queen, of course, said nothing, but I know—because Prince Philiptold me—that it “saddened” her,” he added of Queen Elizabeth II.