Book Revealed: Charles III.
clung to his teddy bear well into adulthood
Created: 07/11/2022, 20:32
By: Annemarie Goebbel
A new biography exposes a secret passion of King Charles III.
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He kept his childhood teddy bear well into his 40s.
He even had a servant for his stuffed animal.
London – Until King Charles III.
(73) could follow in the footsteps of his mother Queen Elizabeth II (96, † 2022) professionally, he had to be 73 years old.
The late start may also result in another delay in his life.
In "The King: The Life of Charles III", the new biography by Christopher Andersen, the former valet of the current king, Michael Fawcett (60) has his say and reports that he was also responsible for the care of a royal stuffed animal - albeit the monarch was already in his forties.
Loyal love to the teddy bear: King Charles III.
treasured his toys for decades
Each time the bear needed repairs, former nanny Mabel Anderson (now reportedly 96) was brought out of retirement to make the necessary repairs.
According to Fawcett, the nanny was "the only person allowed to use a needle and thread on Prince Charles' teddy bear.
He was well into his forties, and every time the teddy needed repairs, you would think it was his own child who had major surgery,"
Andersen writes.
King Charles III
only allowed his beloved nanny Mabel Anderson to fix his childhood teddy bear (photomontage).
© Isabel Infantes/dpa & Friso Gentsch/dpa
Apparently, the bizarre teddy love was not the only quirk of the then heir to the throne.
Valet Fawcett was also responsible for squeezing toothpaste onto the Prince of Wales's monogrammed toothbrush, shaving his face, helping him put on his trousers and tying his shoes.
He arranged the royal's pajamas and covered his bed.
Former valet Ken Stronach reports in the biography of Charles III.
breakfast and dinner
He describes a Regent's breakfast tray as having "a cup and saucer on the right, with a silver spoon pointing outward at a five o'clock angle.
The butter must be served in three balls and chilled.
The royal toast is always on a silver rack, never on a plate,” writes Andersen.
Various jams, jellies, marmalades and honey are served on a separate silver platter.
To Charles III.
Dinner almost always featured a green salad with a soft-boiled egg, but the eggs were a challenge for the kitchen staff.
"The chefs in the royal kitchen would typically prepare several three-minute eggs before making sure one met the prince's tenderness requirements," Andersen writes.
"The rejects were thrown away".
According to the bio, Charles is used to getting what he wants
The high standards seem to have applied to employees as well.
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also claims that the monarch was "mean" to employees.
However, Charles would have demanded the highest quality standards from his gardeners.
At Charles' Highgrove estate in Tetbury, near Gloucestershire, Andersen notes, the chief gardener awaited every day a list of "instructions and complaints" that "his boss had written in red ink."
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Apparently, Charles was not only a teddy bear owner, but also had tyrannical traits: the then prince stood on his porch and allegedly gave orders to his landscape gardeners through a green megaphone.
"For someone who said he was bullied as a child, Prince Charles clearly enjoyed bullying us," a staffer at Highgrove House, which the king has since given to Prince William, 40, told Andersen.
"He could be friendly and accommodating, but just as often he was moody and mean.
He didn't hesitate to scold you when you made a mistake.”
Sources used:
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