Heartbreaking reason sick Charles had to keep away from the Queen as a child
ok.co.ukLady Anne Glenconner – a close childhood friend of the late Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Princess Margaret – has opened up on King Charles' childhood, revealing he was often kept away from his monarch mother as a youngster due to his poor health.
Lady Anne maintains a solid connection with the King and still sees him regularly – a friendship which has lasted decades as Charles would often stay at Holkham Hall as a boy with the Earl and Countess of Leicester.
She exclusively reveals to OK! that he'd often come to stay when recovering from common childhood diseases such as chicken pox and mumps, as it was too dangerous for him to be around the Queen at that time. “The Queen was very fond of my mother," she recalls. "So, my mother said ‘Why doesn’t Charles recuperate at Holkham?
We’ll look after him’. Which was wonderful! "He came quite often and he loved working in my mother’s pottery making pots." Having never been educated with groups of children, the Queen hadn’t built up the necessary immunity to childhood ailments, and Lady Anne's mother was seen as a maternal figure during some of those times.
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