How to Be A Prince (10 of 65)

How to Be A Prince

Diana was powerfully aware of William's destiny and she thought it was really important that she trained him for his future role.
l remember when l met her at Kensington Palace, we had a long chat about all sorts of things, there was pictures of her boys all round the drawing room.
Her love for them was absolutely obvious, but she said that William regards his destiny as really a burden, a big burden on his shoulders, the thought of being King.
Some of William's ancestors had a far more relaxed attitude to learning.
The young boy who was to become Charles The Second had time to take it easy.
His private tutor, the Earl of Newcastle, wrote a booklet on the correct way to educate a prince.

''For the arts l would have you know them so far as they are of use, and especially those that are most proper for war, but whensover you are too studious your contemplation will spoil your government, therefore take heed of too much book.
What Newcastle is saying to the little Charles here is religion and learning are actually harmful to monarchs.
What they need to learn is to how to manipulate people, to be courteous, to be charming, to deceive: to manage men.
Newcastle is in many ways the ideal practitioner of spin.
He's training a royal spin doctor to prepare policy and prepare appearances so that they will lull the public and the court into accepting whatever the monarch does.