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‘The Crown’ Shows Us the Worst of Royal Parenting—and Its Dark Consequences

Nursery Stories

Any audit of royal parenting comes back to the same problem: the Queen ceded control of her children’s upbringing to Philip who was inflexibly tough, particularly towards his sons.

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