Brod Munro Wilson5/8/2021
The tongue-in-cheek remark was made while he was a student at Trinity College Cambridge and ahead of his marriage to Diana.And viewers will learn more about Charles upbringing, and that of his two brothers and sister, in Paxman on the Queens Children on Channel 5 tonight.
In tonights programme, Paxman speaks to Broderick Munro-Wilson, a friend of Charles who was with him at Cambridge. He recalls a newspaper article in the Daily Telegraph featuring several potential brides for the bachelor Prince that prompted Charles to crack the joke. Caroline of Monaco was about the only one, possibly, He said to me, Brod, shall I go gay That is a fact. Paxman questioned if there were any virgins left in England by that stage, prompting the response: I suspect there were none and it was a very tricky one for him. The very young Charles was now heir, and that meant he and his sister Anne would be in the spotlight for the rest of their lives. It also meant his mother would have much less time to spend with her two eldest. The two younger children, Andrew and Edward, were born after a rocky patch in the royal marriage was overcome, and became like a second family. Certain insiders believed that the monarchy should embrace the new medium of television, and Paxman learns that the Queens children were to be the stars. Jeremy recollects his own university days, as a contemporary of Charles at Cambridge and hears from a friend of the young prince how Charless circle at university was selected from a specially approved list, and how he and Anne embraced the sexual freedom of the era. It was the first hint we got that the royals were, after all, just like us. Having let the genie out of the bottle in this fly-on-the wall documentary, things spiralled out of the Palaces control. Paxman explores how the royal foursome were treated as celebrities. Anne and Charles caused a splash before Andrew outdid them both as glamorous Randy Andy. But soon there was a public backlash, and Jeremy discovers that we perhaps preferred our royals to behave in a more royal fashion. Reputations slid as the catastrophe of Edwards Its a Royal Knockout made the young royals look ridiculous, in a low point not just for the Queens children, but for the monarchy itself. And then the same public that had lapped up the fairytale weddings of Charles and Di, and Andrew and Fergie, felt betrayed as one by one the royal marriages fell apart in scandal. In the tabloid bloodbath of 1992 the Queens annus horribilis it seemed the royal children had tarnished the Crown almost beyond rescue. Jeremy remembers what it felt like in the newsroom as it all happened. Brod Munro Wilson Series He AsksIn the two-part series he asks what impact the Queens children have had on the monarchy, meeting eyewitnesses and players in the royal soap opera. Paxman explores the lives of the Queens four children Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward and discovers how their disasters and triumphs have shaped our relationship with the monarchy. Paxman On The Queens Children will be shown on Channel 5 on Tuesday at 9pm.
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