Bringing Them Up Royal: How the Royals raised their children from Henry VIII to the present day - Hardcover

'[Cohen] has magnanimously decided to combine his two favourite subjects; royalty and psychology. His timing could hardly be better...Cohen packs in a wealth of anecdotes...covering everything from the teaching of swordsmanship to the fact that Prince Charles was given his own footman at the age of three' --Helen Davies, Sunday Times Culture

Everyone was amazed Princess Diana was a good mother. She was an exception as the British Royal Family has not been exactly renowned for their good parenting - at least since the time of Queen Victoria and Albert, who was always telling his son Bertie how disappointed he was in him; King George V was often telling his sons how disappointed he was in them - and the tension between Prince Charles and his father has been the subject of much speculation. A mix of popular history and soap opera with a Royal twist, Bringing Them up Royal reveals for the first time how British Kings and Queens brought up their children and is bound to arouse wide attention and controversy. Drawing on much fascinating new material and discovered documents and records - going back to the Tudors - David Cohen tells a compelling and at times shocking story providing many arresting psychoanalytical insights and twists.