"Spare" beats the press at its own game: excellent review of the book & US culture...

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58. For those who are horrified that Harry chose to go public with all this,

he's just following the example set by his parents.

This is a 1995 review of The Prince of Wales, a biography, released with Charles' full cooperation in the year after he split with Diana.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-22-bk-22744-story.html

In the preface the author states, “I have experienced a wide range of emotions in writing this book; boredom has never been one of them,” but the reader will beg to differ. Dimbleby was given full access to the Prince, as well as his friends, diaries, archives and letters, so he can hardly be expected to be hard-eyed and independent, even so, nothing prepares the reader for toadying quite like this.

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Dimbleby was also responsible for the ITV television documentary, “Charles: The Private Man, The Public Role,” in which the Prince publicly confessed that he had committed adultery, and he depicts the heir to the throne as a piteous victim of fate: ignored by his mother, the Queen, bullied by his father, Prince Philip, abused by his schoolmates, and tortured by his publicity-mad, hysterical wife, Diana, whom he never loved and only married because his father put pressure on him to make a decision.

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For instance, we learn that Charles always loved Camilla Parker Bowles and was intimate with her up until his wedding and that he was jealous of his own wife’s astounding popularity. Yet the author puts all the blame for the marital disaster on the bulimic Princess and discreetly passes over the Prince’s tape-recorded phone conversation in which he wished to be reincarnated as Mrs. Bowles’ tampon (if this is his idea of romance, you can forgive the Princess for feeling nauseated).