- Published: 5 February 2015
- ISBN: 9780753550809
- Imprint: Virgin Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 544
Charles: The Heart of a King
- Published: 5 February 2015
- ISBN: 9780753550809
- Imprint: Virgin Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 544
A sustained piece of higher journalism based on diligent research, it is respectful, sympathetic and surprisingly positive. But it does not omit uncomfortable facts or polite criticisms.
Independent
Breathtaking stuff … leavened with some sly jokes: "To know the Prince is not necessarily to love him," [Mayer] writes, "whatever love means" ... A glimpse into Charles's world.’
The Times
A must-read … this important book is nothing short of a manual to our future King’s world-view ... and Mayer's book is the first comprehensive attempt to explore and explain what may lie ahead.
GQ
Primarily a celebration of a very special man.
Sunday Times
A vivid and entertaining account of the extraordinary life of the man born to be King … provides us with a new picture of the heir.
Daily Express
[On Catherine Mayer] Shrewd, respected and notably well-disposed.
Observer
Exhaustive yet entertaining.
Will Self, Guardian
What does distinguish Mayer's book from many others on the same subject is its intelligence, wit and compassion. She is not uncritical of Charles – she is republican after all – but she is sympathetic to him and tries hard to understand him.
Sunday Herald