A Synopsis from inside the dust jacket:

"Clive James has long been impressed with Prince Charles as a potential epic hero. Who else but the Heir to the Throne has been in the Army, Navy and Air Force, has studied at Gordonstoun and Timbertop, can fly aircraft, navigate ships, drive tanks, tell jokes and swim under ice? Who else has been a focus for the adoration of untold numbers of young women, yet had to set his face like flint against the blandishments of the unworthy?

"But time which changes everything has finally changed the life even of this paragon among men. The perfect bride was discovered, by a process of selection which this poem reveals exclusively for the first time. After undergoing the harsh ordeal by media she has now joined the Prince, to be always at his side. The biggest choice of his life has been made. But for Prince Charles have there ever been any real choices apart from this one? 2001 lines long, this poem is the one last light word before the seriousness begins. But even beneath its airy tone can be heard the firm tread of destiny. Charles Charming's Challenges is a tribute to a young man who was conscripted and yet trained himself to be a volunteer - the Prisoner in the Velvet Mask.

"With his three previous epic protagonists - Peregrine Prykke (in the Literary World), Felicity Fark (in the Land of the Media) and Britannia Bright (in the Wilderness of Westminster) - Clive James launched into a satirical world which Richard Boston, writing in the Guardian, has called 'a comic masterpiece'. Now in Charles Charming we have a hero truly epic, illustrated by the redoubtable Marc in a poem that is longer, funnier and even more compelling than its predecessors - and may be worth a King's ransom to all concerned."

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