Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest son of Elizabeth II. He has been Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay since 1952, and he is the oldest and longest-serving heir apparent in British history.
He is also the longest-serving Prince of Wales, having held that title since 1958. Charles was born at Buckingham Palace as the first grandchild of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. He was educated at Cheam and Gordonstoun schools, which his father, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, had attended as a child. Charles also spent a year at the Timbertop campus of Geelong Grammar School in Victoria, Australia.
Bryn Terfel on the return of opera: ‘After a pandemic people will want to thrive and be in a theatre’
telegraph.co.ukGlyndebourne, initially because he was engaged at Salzburg for eight years, then later because he kept summers clear for holidays with his first wife, Lesley Jones, and their three sons, now adults.
He and Jones divorced in 2013, and in 2019 he married Hannah Stone, former official harpist to Prince Charles, and 22 years Terfel’s junior.
The couple had a daughter, Lily, now three, who started nursery near the family home in Penarth just as Alffi was born, in the pandemic summer of last year.So this summer he is happy to stay in Wales.
And Verdi’s lone comic outing, Falstaff, which Terfel first sang at Sydney Opera House in 1999, is ‘undoubtedly my favourite opera to perform.
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