King Charles felt his mother Queen Elizabeth ‘was cold and aloof’ during ‘lonely’ childhood, author claims

Prince Charles, the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, became king when his mother, Britain's longest-reigning monarch, passed away. The queen died on Sept. 8 at age 96.

"So much about Charles you could really trace back to his childhood, which was heartbreakingly lonely," Andersen recently claimed to ETOnline. "Charles has described his relationship with his mother [by saying] that she was cold and aloof, that his father was a bully who hectored him, who made him cry in front of other people, physically bullied him." Stephanie Nolasco covers entertainment at Foxnews.com.

"I think it’s very telling that Charles only spent as a boy … two 15-minute periods a day [with his parents]," Andersen alleged. "… When he had a tonsillectomy, when he had a very bad case of the flu, when he fell down the stairs and broke his ankle, when he had an emergency appendectomy at the age of 13, neither his mother nor his father visited him at the hospital."