Advertisement For a boy on his first birthday, colourful toys can usually be relied on to produce gurgles of delight. For Prince Charles, who could barely walk, there was only puzzlement over a wooden object he could hardly pick up. It was a cricket bat, and Prince Philip had got it for him — an early indication of a paternal approach summed up by his oft-repeated mantra: 'I want Charles to be a man's man.' Well-meaning it may have been, but most parents would see it as woefully misguided. And when Philip's dogged attempts to 'man-up' Charles inevitably failed, a rift emerged between father and eldest son which was never fully to heal.