'The boy's got a temper!': Camilla told friends that Prince William would shout and Prince Charles would meekly submit, new book claims
- Camilla was horrified by William's unexpected temper after her marriage
- He would unleash his rage on his father who would meekly submit to the anger
- The father and son have grown closer in recent years and work closely together
Prince Harry has frankly confessed to having a blazing temper — and as for his elder brother, well, he has proved no Sweet William when roused.
In the years following her 2005 marriage to Prince Charles, William's new stepmother confided her surprise to her family and to her close friends at this unexpected side to Prince Charming — 'The boy's got a temper!'
Camilla had been horrified by the ranting and raving that William could unleash on occasions against her husband — letting rip with no apparent inhibition in her presence.
In the years following her 2005 marriage to Prince Charles (pictured), Camilla said she was surprised by William's temper
The rows had been earth-shattering, by her account, with William doing the shouting and Charles submitting meekly.
As she's described these distressing episodes, William would hold nothing back. He could summon up a wrath to match the importance that he attaches to his challenging role as the future king.
Share this article
In William's kingdom, everything had to be perfect — and if his father has failed in some way to live up to his elder son's elevated view of what being royal entails, the young man would release his fury.
Nor, it seems, does Charles measure up in his elder son's eyes as a wonderful parent. In 2017, when marking the 20th anniversary of Diana's death, William proved fiercely uncompromising in his unwillingness to make any conciliatory remark about Charles's fathering of his motherless sons.
Royal PR aides begged the young Prince to give his father some sort of nod when talking to journalists before the screening of the ITV documentary Diana, Our Mother, but he flatly refused.
Charles and William, pictured with Harry in 2014, now clearly appreciate the need to work closely together for the future of the monarchy
William simply wasn't prepared to pretend that the workaholic, ever-worrying Charles had made good on all the hands-on parenting that he'd promised.
It should be stressed that in recent times — and particularly since the adjustments that the Royal Family had to make in 2019 and 2020 in the wake of their disagreements and the departure of Harry — father and elder son have grown much closer together.
Prince Charles and Prince William now clearly appreciate the need to work closely together for the future of the monarchy — whether that proves to be a brotherly reconciliation next year or some regulated and agreed form of effectively permanent division.
Their father-son spats are said to be episodes in the past.
Most watched News videos
- Shocking moment woman is abducted by man in Oregon
- British Army reveals why Household Cavalry horses escaped
- Moment escaped Household Cavalry horses rampage through London
- New AI-based Putin biopic shows the president soiling his nappy
- Prison Break fail! Moment prisoners escape prison and are arrested
- Ammanford school 'stabbing': Police and ambulance on scene
- Wills' rockstar reception! Prince of Wales greeted with huge cheers
- Shadow Transport Secretary: Labour 'can't promise' lower train fares
- All the moments King's Guard horses haven't kept their composure
- Columbia protester calls Jewish donor 'a f***ing Nazi'
- Helicopters collide in Malaysia in shocking scenes killing ten
- Shocking moment pandas attack zookeeper in front of onlookers
