According to author Christopher Andersen, King Charles III has a cherished stuffed toy. "He still travels with a childhood teddy bear," Andersen told ET. "He's had it since he was a very small child." Inside Edition published an excerpt of the book which described Charles sleeping with his beloved bear. "At forty-eight, Charles still traveled everywhere with Teddy, insisting that when the toy animal lost a button or began to fray, the Prince's childhood nanny, Mabel Anderson, be called in to sew Teddy back to health," Andersen wrote.
Growing up, Charles had a close bond with his nanny, who he nicknamed "Mispy." "It was Mabel who put Charles to bed, told him stories, patched up his cuts and bruises," royal author Robert Jobson told Express. "Mabel Anderson was certainly Prince Charles' rock when he was a young and sensitive child."
Charles' former nanny was the only person trusted with repairing his bear, says Andersen. "Every time that teddy needed to be repaired, you would think it was his own child having major surgery," he wrote, per Page Six.
While Andersen counts the king's bear attachment as a quirk, a survey by Time4Sleep shows that Charles is in good company. Half of the men surveyed still have a teddy bear, per Daily Mail. A 2017 survey by Build-A-Bear Workshop yielded similar results, with 1,000 adults saying they owned a stuffed toy. 40% of these said they sleep with their toy (via Study Finds).
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