“Cold” mother: “King Charles longed for a hug”. Ingrid Seward, 76, in an interview with gbnews.com about her new book “My Mother and I” King Charles missed the Queen as a loving mother, especially when she was young, the biographer says.

“Not literally, but in spirit, because she was so busy being the queen,” Seward says. "She was the queen,. but in later life she was his mother," she adds.