The births of their two children will obviously not have been without apprehension. Indeed, Philip Kyle in his book Charles III (ed. Perrin) reveals that when Prince Harry was born on September 15, 1984, Charles III would have had a unflattering remark towards his younger brother. And when Prince William had pointed the tip of his nose, June 21, 1982, this time it was Queen Elizabeth II who would have noted something about the physique of her newborn grandson. His Majesty was visibly relieved he doesn’t look like… Charles.
Outside St Mary Paddington Hospital, where Diana gave birth for almost 13 hours, crowds waited for the couple to cheer him and the newborn. Everyone claimed they wanted to see Charles. And when asked if the baby looked like him, King Charles III answered, not without humour: “No, fortunately for him!“And if we are to believe Diana, who shared this indiscretion with her biographer as Philip Kyle relates in the book, Queen Elizabeth II”was also relieved that the little child does not have the features of Charles“. When the now-lamented monarch leaned over Prince William’s incubator the next day, she was then said to have said: “Thank God he doesn’t have his father’s ears!”
Thank God he doesn’t have his father’s ears!
If it was Charles’ physique that had been targeted when Harry was born, it was the baby who took it for his rank. Leaving the hospital, the king described the baby as having pale blue eyes and hair “of an indeterminate color“. Uncomplimentary words about the hair color of his youngest son. Remarks made on physical criteria from birth, which echo those made years later about the eldest son of the Duke of Sussex , Archie.The latter would have been the target of comments on his physique, and in particular on his skin color, as affirmed by Meghan Markle at Oprah Winfrey.