Despite sounding as if he were translating from the Latin original, the admission was extraordinary. Monarchs-to-be don’t usually explain their private choices: Charles’s mother, Queen Elizabeth II, never sat down for an inquisition of the sort that her son had invited. The documentary was Charles’s P.R. gamble—an effort to present himself as a thoughtful future King and as an involved single father during what, in the early nineteen-nineties, had become known as “the War of the Waleses.”