Prince Charles loves all his grandkids – but it seems the notoriously eccentric royal definitely has his favourites, and it’s not the oldest, Prince George.
According to UK newspaper The Express, the royal adores Princess Charlotte – and this is an expression of his lifelong wish to have a daughter. It was an obsessive wish that tore apart his marriage to Princess Diana.
According to Andrew Morton’s book, Diana: Her True Story, the late princess was left devastated when Charles said at the birth of his son Harry, ‘Oh God, it’s a boy.’
Diana told friends that her husband ‘wanted a girl’, and despite apparently knowing the baby’s gender in advance, she felt it best to keep it to herself. She said the pair’s union ‘went down the drain’ after the cutting remark.
The princess is said to have told her mother, Frances Shand Kydd that Charles was ‘so disappointed – we thought it would be a girl’.
The obsession carried on through the years, with Charles making it plain to his son William and his wife Kate in 2014 that he hoped they were having a girl. His dream finally came true with the birth of Charlotte in 2015.
But it seems George isn’t exactly in the dog house. Charles refurbished William’s old tree house for George and has built him a shepherd’s hut to play in. But it seems that Charlotte very much remains the apple of his eye.
