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Article: Flawed Family
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 19, 1994
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In less than four weeks, on 14 November, the Prince of Wales
will celebrate his 46th birthday. He will no doubt feel that he has
aged greatly since the last celebration a year ago.
What is most striking about the extracts from Jonathan
Dimbleby's new authorised biography is the extent to which they
portray this middle-aged man as an emotionally stunted little boy.
The heir to the throne is bogged down by unresolved resentments
left over from early boyhood.
It is abundantly clear that Prince Charles did not feel the
affect of a loving father and mother, and that he considers his
parents, in the words of the child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim,
to have been not "good enough".
Dimbleby, with ...