AS A ROYAL correspondent for 33 years, and the man who broke the news of Charles and Camilla’s engagement, Robert Jobson is well-placed to provide this timely biography of our soon-to-be-crowned monarch. Sure enough, his new book—fully updated from an earlier one—is an absorbing, highly informed account of Charles’s life from birth (when his father described him as looking just like “a plum pudding”) to the past few months, when we’ve all had to get used to singing “God Save the King”.
What makes it particularly good, though, is how reliable it feels. Jobson clearly writes
