#christopher andersen

[trexalicious]

From Christopher Andersen's book Brothers and Wives regarding Diana and James Hewitt and Harry's paternity...🤔

[houseofbrat]

According to reports, King Charles III and his younger brother, Prince Andrew, have had a strained relationship over the years. The king is

In 2008, several years before Andrew’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein came to light, his older brother had an idea to streamline the monarchy, and it didn’t go well. "Charles floated the idea that several Windsor offspring be demoted, stripped of their HRH standing, have their royal protection taken away, and, most revolutionary of all, kicked off the royal payroll," Christopher Andersen, author of "The King," told Fox News Digital. "Prince Andrew fought these proposals that would have resulted in his daughters Beatrice and Eugenie each being forced to earn their own living and downgraded from ‘Princess’ to ‘Lady,' a suggestion that was shouted down in an angry confrontation between him and Charles," Andersen said. According to Andersen, the Duke of York didn’t think twice before he decided to "throw a fit." "By all accounts, it was a literal battle Royale, a desk-pounding shouting match between the two brothers, both known for their volatile tempers," Andersen claimed. "Keep in mind that this was years before Andrew's involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein sex abuse scandal essentially forced the king to put Andrew out to pasture."

I'm still waiting for Charles to do it.

[deadpresidents]

So, I was reading Christopher Andersen’s new book, The King: The Life of Charles III (available on November 8th: BOOK | KINDLE), and came across this tidbit just eight pages into the first chapter as Andersen is explaining how Charles found out about Princess Diana’s death:

“Charles’s life -- and the history of the British monarchy -- was changed forever on August 31st, when the black phone next to his carved-mahogany four-poster bed jangled him awake shortly after one o’clock in the morning. The phone rang a half dozen times while the Prince of Wales, a notoriously heavy sleeper, clung to Teddy, the stuffed bear of his childhood. At forty-eight, Charles still traveled everywhere with Teddy, insisting that when the toy animal lost a button or began to fray, the Prince’s childhood nanny, Mabel Anderson, be called in to sew Teddy back to health.”

That’s not a joke, by the way. I’m not making that paragraph up. I actually took photos of the passage from the book because I’m not sure I would believe it if someone told me that information without including the evidence in print:

Now, I’m not judging anybody or suggesting what might be right or wrong, but I think it’s fair to say that I speak for literally everybody around the world when I ask these questions: •Does the 73-year-old King of England still sleep with a teddy bear every night? •If Teddy (creative name, by the way) still travels everywhere with King Charles III, how is he transported? •It doesn’t sound like the King would be comfortable just shoving Teddy in a carry-on bag, so does he have a royal dog carrier that he rides in? •Does King Charles carry him around Buckingham Palace in a BabyBjörn? •Does he get his own seat on the royal family’s planes and helicopters? •Is the rift between Harry and Meghan and the rest of the royal family because Teddy has a better security detail than they do? •Who would win in a fight between Teddy and Paddington (no Hard Stares -- or Care Bear Stares for that matter -- allowed)? •How old must Charles’s childhood nanny be now and why is he making that poor, ancient woman still fix Teddy’s buttons? •Would Teddy have been able to serve a longer term as Prime Minister than Liz Truss if the King had asked him to form a government? •We’re 100% sure that Prince Andrew didn’t take Teddy to Jeffrey Epstein’s island, right? •And, last but not least, I must ask again: Does the 73-year-old King of England still sleep with the teddy bear he apparently was sleeping with every night even as he was nearing his 50th birthday?

[jerseydeanne]

Author Christopher Andersen claims that relations between the royals are now so poor that William “isn’t returning Harry’s calls” and Charles and Harry “haven’t spoken since Prince Philip's funeral”

Yes, Prince Charles Really Is the ‘Royal Racist,’ Author Christopher Andersen Insists

Author Christopher Andersen claims Charles’ words were “innocent musings” which were “twisted over time by palace operatives into something

[anamon-book]

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[darienlibrary]

Happy Royal Engagement Day! Elisabeth, our Head of Children and Teen Services, takes her love of the Royal Family to a whole other level with these two recommendations. Watch the video.

[trexalicious]

BOMBSHELL REVELATION -- JAMES HEWITT

According to Christopher Andersen in his new book 'Brothers and Wives' (and confirmed by James Hewitt), Princess Diana and James Hewitt met, consummated their relationship and carried on an affair BEFORE HARRY was born. They "...refrained from having sex" when she was pregnant with Harry and "the question of the prince's paternity remained unsolved"...The book is very sympathetic towards Harry and throughout consistently refers to William and Harry as 'the Heir' and 'the Spare'. There's also information in the book that could only have come from Harry...🤔 And not a peep from BP or KCIII about a published book stating the 6th in line to the UK throne's paternity is in question...

[deadpresidents]

I'm interested in hearing any new reading suggestions or updates on what you've been reading lately?

My reading tastes have been all over the place during the last two months, but here's what I've been reading since Labor Day or so:

•The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama (BOOK | KINDLE) by Gabriel Debenedetti A fascinating look at one of the closest relationships between a President his Vice President in American history, why their dynamic was so successful, and how the Obama-Biden partnership was sometimes much more complicated than we realized.

•Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America (BOOK | KINDLE) by Maggie Haberman It's no surprise that Maggie Haberman was able to fashion her top-notch reporting and unparalleled access into one of the better overall biographies of who Donald Trump is and has been his entire life -- and how it has helped tear our country apart.

•The King: The Life of Charles III (BOOK | KINDLE) by Christopher Andersen

•United and Independent: John Quincy Adams on American Foreign Policy (BOOK | KINDLE) by Patrick J. Garrity & Ben Judge [Editors]

•The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson (BOOK | KINDLE) by Jeff Pearlman Pearlman's sports books are always difficult to put down, and it was easier to tackle the legendary Bo Jackson in Tecmo Bowl than it was to put down this in-depth biography about him.

•James K. Polk and His Time: Essays at the Conclusion of the Polk Project (BOOK | Kindle not available) by Michael David Cohen [Editor]

•War Songs [Library of Arabic Literature] (BOOK | KINDLE) by 'Antarah ibn Shaddad

•Salman's Legacy: The Dilemmas of a New Era in Saudi Arabia (BOOK | KINDLE) by Madawi Al-Rasheed [Editor]

•Nasser: The Last Arab (BOOK | KINDLE) by Saïd Aburish

•The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World (BOOK | KINDLE) by Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab al-Nuwayri

•A Gift of Joy and Hope (BOOK | KINDLE) by Pope Francis

Beginning in July, I also decided to try to read as much of Sir Richard Francis Burton's complete works, in unabridged form, as I possibly could. Last year, I read the three-volume, unabridged edition of his Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah -- originally published in 1855 -- and it was pretty challenging, but also an extremely captivating account of his journeys and observations, and finishing the series felt like an accomplishment along the lines of climbing a mountain or something. So, I set out to try to read as many of his other (many, many, many) books. I've finished a couple of them over the past couple of months, but let's just say that the overall goal is a work-in-progress. As long as "progress" isn't defined as actually completing my goal anytime soon.