Charles, Prince of Wales, is the British Queen's eldest son.0:06
He is the heir to the throne.0:10
Charles was born in 1948.0:12
His mother became the Queen in 1952.0:15
She was a fairly young woman then and it was not always easy for her to be a mother and the head of the country at one and the same time.0:19
She had always had a very strong sense of duty.0:28
Charles biographer Jonathan Dimbleby says that Charles describes his childhood as deeply unhappy.0:31
But the Queen remembers her son's childhood quite differently.0:38
She thinks that she and her husband did their best as parents.0:42
One of The Queen's relatives, Mrs. Margaret Rhodes, who lives in Windsor, admits that raising children hasn't been easy for the Queen and Prince Philip.0:47
The Queen, Margaret Rhodes says, was often made to put the country before the family.0:56
Mrs. Rhodes, who has lived at the heart of the British court for most of her life, adds that the Queen finds Prince Charles difficult and his lifestyle not economical.1:02
She criticizes her son for spending too much.1:13
Mrs. Rhodes thinks that this is very much a generation thing.1:17
The Queen doesn't believe in spending more than necessary.1:22
She has long had a reputation for watching the pennies and legend says that she goes round Buckingham palace turning the lights off.1:25
Charles, on the one hand, is an enormously hard working man and on the other hand his attitude towards spending and entertaining is very different to that of his mother's.1:33
He has got a lot of servants and is fond of expensive entertainments.1:45
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