King Charles failed attempts to ‘please’ Prince Philip laid bare

King Charles and his father Prince Philip were never able to develop a sense of trust between each other.

His Majesty, who lost his father due to Covid back in 2021, spent his entire life in order to appease the former Duke of Edinburgh.

In the book My Mother and I, royal expert Ingrid Seward says: "Charles and his father were so totally opposite that they never completely trusted one another.”

Seward wrote: "Prince Philip was brought up in a world run almost entirely by men and Charles was brought up in a world run almost entirely by women." A

Seward added: "Charles was forever trying to please his father, but had a perverse knack of doing exactly the opposite."

The royal biographer continued: "On the polo field, Philip would be particularly brutal to Charles when they played together, and polo player Johnny Kidd...remembers Philip screaming abuse at his son when he made some minor mistake or missed a shot."