Poor King Charles. With his brother, the former Prince Andrew, banished to a sad little farmhouse on the Sandringham estate, and his son Prince Harry consumed by the complexities of the English school run, the King might have hoped for a reprieve from familial drama. But ha! These are the Windsors. It’s never long before another tall, mouthy relative has something unfortunate to say.
For the past fortnight, British newspaper readers haven’t been allowed to check the Premier League rankings without getting an earful from Charles Spencer. It’s not the first time. Two years ago, the ninth Earl Spencer, brother of Princess Diana, was everywhere with his first jaw-dropping memoir, A Very Private School, about the abuse he endured at his boarding school, Maidwell Hall.