Rebel King: The Making of a Monarch

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No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

Bestselling author Tom Bower reveals the making of a monarch King Charles III
King Charles faces many challenges as he succeeds his mother to the throne. Despite his hard work and genuine concern for the disadvantaged, King Charles III has struggled in the past to overcome his unpopularity. After Dianas death, his approval rating crashed to four per cent and has been only rescued by his marriage to Camilla.

In unearthing many secrets and dramas surrounding King Charles, Bowers book, relies on the testimony from over 120 people employed or welcomed into the inner sanctum. The result is a book which uniquely probes the character and court of Charles that no one, until now, has seen. It offers an unrivalled and intimate look at King Charles, his many years as heir and how a monarch was made.

Previously published as Rebel Prince.

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Sensational There is more than enough carping, cosseting and cattiness here to satisfy any appetite for royal intrigue. Sunday Times, Books of the Year

A gripping biography Bee Wilson, Guardian, Book of the Week

A devastating book by Britains top investigative author extraordinary revelations Daily Mail

Explosive new book delves inside the bizarre, ultra luxury world of Prince Charles Sun

Explosive Huffington Post

Author Bio

Tom Bower is the author of twenty-three best-selling books. In the late 1950s he travelled to communist Czechoslovakia, and while a student at the LSE he was known as 'Tommy the Red'. As a journalist, between 1969 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1990 he travelled across communist East Germany and spent much of his time during the 1970s reporting for BBC TV with British strikers, especially the miners led by Arthur Scargill. In 1989 he worked for three years in Russia, interviewing high-ranking Soviet intelligence officers who played the spy game against the West. He reported wars from Vietnam, the Middle East and South America, where he encountered hard-left idealists and latterday commissars. Bower's experience of myriad wars, elections, corrupt politicians and shady businessmen cured him of his Marxism, but not of his curiosity and innate scepticism. Dangerous Hero is the latest of his many bestselling and critically acclaimed books.