Prince Charles’ ‘Womanizing’ Skills Influenced By This Intellectual Guru, Source Claims

Prince Charles’ womanizing skills was reportedly influenced by an intellectual guru from South Africa.

In the documentary “The Madness of Prince Charles,” it was revealed that Prince Charles had a slew of similarities with Laurens van der Post, a writer from South Africa. The two bonded over Prince Charles’ interest in psychoanalyst Carl Gustav Jung, who was a friend of van der Post.

But other than this, biographer JDF Jones said that Prince Charles also picked up on another aspect of van der Post’s life in which he is known as a womanizer. The 2015 YouTube documentary revealed that van der Post had a wife and a long-term mistress.

“His and Charles’ intellectual hero Jung also had two women in his life. Van der Post saw nothing wrong in the prince having a wife and mistress,” Jones said.

In 1982, Prince Charles also named van der Post as one of Prince William’s godfathers during his christening. The biographer said that Prince Charles decision to ask a then-75-year-old van der Post to be Prince William’s godfather was quite absurd.

“I’m convinced Charles was saying, whether he rationalized it or not, ‘this man is my godfather, I put in his hands my own spiritual and moral life,’” Jones claimed.

Meanwhile, Prince Charles also reportedly saw the writer as the single most important influence in his personal development. The future King was also delighted over the fact that the South African native was a flatterer.

In his letters to Prince Charles, van der Post constantly praised the heir to the throne and compared him with the finest thinkers of their time. Van der Post passed away in 1996 at the age of 90. Five years later, Jones published a biography on the writer and confirmed that he had a secret child after having an affair with a 14-year-old girl.

Jones also revealed that van der Post spoke with former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at length especially during the Falklands War. Thatcher also turned to van der Post for advice on Nelson Mandela and Chief Buthelezi, according to The Telegraph.