Tom bower royal biographer
A royal biographer whose Meghan Markle book earned a clapback from the duchess says King Charles "never liked going to Africa."
Tom Bower's Revenge was described as a hatchet job, accused of inaccuracies and contained claims challenged by Meghan herself, though he remains a regular commentator in Britain.
He has now said that Charles "liked going to the white Commonwealth countries" and was "forced to go to Africa shortly before he became king."
In a speech on Tuesday, Charles said it was a "great pleasure" to be in Kenya and added: "It is particularly special to be able to return to this extraordinary country in the sixtieth year of your independence."
Bower said on GB News that "left-wing American academics" have "vastly exaggerated" the crimes of the British Empire.
It should be noted that Bower also wrote a scathing biography of Charles, titled Rebel Prince, which earned him the label "undisputed Witchfinder General of contemporary biographers" from The Mail on Sunday.
"[Charles] never liked going to Africa: he was forced to go to Africa shortly before he became king because he neglected the Commonwealth. He liked going to the white Commonwealth countries," Bowers told GB News. "He liked going a lot to India, but he avoided Africa if he could. He just didn't find it culturally that interesting, whereas he was very interested in the culture of India. And the real truth is, [Queen] Camilla doesn't like traveling long distances."
Charles is on a tour of Kenya to mark the 60th anniversary of the country's independence from British rule and expressed his sorrow for the suppression of the Mau Mau rebellion, which saw 90,000 Kenyans executed, tortured and maimed in the 1950s.
The official death toll stands at 10,000, and the British Government in 2013 paid out around $25 million dollars to more than 5,000 survivors of the British camps.
"I don't think [Charles is] a natural diplomat or politician. I think he does struggle because he knows very well, o
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Tom Bower
British writer
Not to be confused with Tom Bower (actor) or Tom Bowers.
Tom Bower | |
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| Born | Thomas Michael Bower (1946-09-28) 28 September 1946 (age 78) England |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Journalism, biography |
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| Children | 4 |
Thomas Michael Bower (born 28 September 1946) is a British writer and former BBC journalist and television producer. He is known for his investigative journalism and for his unauthorised biographies, often of business tycoons and newspaper proprietors.
His books include unauthorised biographies of Robert Maxwell, Mohamed Al-Fayed, Conrad Black, Richard Branson, Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson. A book about Richard Desmond remains unpublished. His book, Broken Dreams: Vanity, Greed and the Souring of British Football, won the 2003 William Hill Sports Book of the Year.
Early life
Bower was born in London in 1946. His parents were Jewish refugees who fled Prague after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 and arrived in London later that same year. They married in London in early 1943. From 1948, Tom's father Jiri Gerhard Bauer renounced the use of the surname Bauer for the family, and called himself George Gerald Bower, a change he confirmed by deed poll on 15 May 1957.
After attending the William Ellis School in Highgate, Bower studied law at the London School of Economics, before working as a barrister for the National Council of Civil Liberties. Bower says that during this period he was a Marxist, being nicknamed "Tommy the Red".
BBC career
In 1970, Bower joined the BBC as a researcher on the programme 24 Hours before becoming a reporter on Panorama. He was a producer on Panorama from 1975 until 1987. He left the BBC in 1995.
Books and journalism
Bower's first book was Blind Eye to Murder (1980), the first exposé based on eyewitnesses and ne .