Born to be king : Prince Charles on planet windsor / Catherine Mayer

By:

Mayer, Catherine [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Henry Holt and Company, c2015.Description: 258 pages ; 24 cmISBN:

9781627794381

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

DA 591 .A33 .M39 2015

Contents:

1. His life in a day.--2. Mother load.--3. A prince among men.--4. The knave of hearts.--5. Wolf hall.--6. Helping and hindering.--7. Harmonies and disharmonies.--8. A foreign asset.--9. Happy and notorious.--10. Kings to come.

Summary: "A miasma of half-fact and fiction surrounds the royal households. At the center of this confusion, hand in pocket, stands Prince Charles, a man who would in any circumstances prove hard to decode. He is fascinating, flawed as we all are, yet not as we are: a product of an upbringing set apart, conditioned to be different and to believe that difference must be maintained, a native of Planet Windsor. Born to be king, he actually aims much higher. For himself, he seeks meaning, enlightenment, happiness. For everyone else he is more zealous still. He has set his sights on nothing less than improving the human condition and fixing a battered world. 'I only take on the most difficult challenges,' he told me. 'Because I want to raise aspirations and re-create hope from hopelessness and health from deprivation."

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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	NU BALIWAG	NU BALIWAG	Reference	Reference	REF DA 591 .A33 .M39 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	c.1	Available		NUBUL000000218

Includes bibliography, and index.

"A miasma of half-fact and fiction surrounds the royal households. At the center of this confusion, hand in pocket, stands Prince Charles, a man who would in any circumstances prove hard to decode. He is fascinating, flawed as we all are, yet not as we are: a product of an upbringing set apart, conditioned to be different and to believe that difference must be maintained, a native of Planet Windsor. Born to be king, he actually aims much higher. For himself, he seeks meaning, enlightenment, happiness. For everyone else he is more zealous still. He has set his sights on nothing less than improving the human condition and fixing a battered world. 'I only take on the most difficult challenges,' he told me. 'Because I want to raise aspirations and re-create hope from hopelessness and health from deprivation."

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