A ground-breaking new biography of Prince Charles from bestselling author, Sally Bedell Smith.
Sally Bedell Smith is the author of the bestselling biographies of Diana, Princess of Wales, John and Jacqueline Kennedy, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Pamela Churchill Harriman and Bill Paley. A contributing editor at Vanity Fairsince 1996, she previously worked at Time and The New York Times, where she was a cultural news reporter. Sally is the mother of three children and lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Stephen.
Brilliant, startling. The royal biography everyone's talking
about
*Daily Mail*
What a story. To read this book is to feel... immense pity and
sympathy for the man
*The Times*
Prince Charles: The passions and paradoxes of an impossible life is
the first major biography of Prince Charles in more than two
decades, with new insights into his family and his two marriages,
from the bestselling author of Elizabeth the Queen.
*From the publisher's description*
Prince Charles is an eighteenth-century gentleman with a
twenty-first-century mission. His love of tradition combines with
an outlook that can be bracingly avant garde. Sally Bedell Smith
captures his contradictions and his convictions in this fascinating
book that is not just about a man who would be king, but also about
the duties that come with privilege.
*Walter Isaacson*
For all we know about Prince Charles, there is so much we didn't
know until now. Sally Bedell Smith has given us a complete and
compelling portrait of the man in the shadow of the throne. It's
all here, from the back stairs of the palaces to the front pages of
the tabs. Read all about it!
*Tom Brokaw*
No one writes about life at the top with more panache than Sally
Bedell Smith. Her Prince Charles is a delicious blend of glamour
and grandeur, jealousy and rivalry, greatness and human foible.
Smith writes with wisdom and sympathy and a sharp and knowing eye
about the struggles and maturation of the man who would be
King.
*Evan Thomas*
This great biography is an indispensable guide for anyone eager to
understand Prince Charles and the British monarchy in the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries. What an achievement, what work went
into it, and all of it presented with such ease. It is so fair,
while suggesting so much.
*Peggy Noonan*
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