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.
Camilla 'felt empathy' for Diana because of 'regimented' Charles, says author
dailystar.co.ukCamilla started to empathise with some of Diana's frustrations with royal life before she married Prince Charles, according to intruiging claims in a new book.Like the Princess of Wales before her, the Duchess of Cornwall had some prior reservations about Charles's "regimented" lifestyle, claims author and former Vanity Fair editor Tina Brown.In Ms Brown's upcoming book The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor—The Truth and Turmoil, she claims the 'relentless' nature of the Prince's strict routines reportedly took Camilla by surprise.An excerpt from the book recently published in The Telegraph, Ms Brown writes: "The Prince’s routine was relentless.
He never ate lunch, and breakfasted on the same birdseed and peeled fruit every morning."Punctuality had never been Camilla’s strong suit, but Charles expected her to be ready for engagements at his own regimented pace.
When she asked where they were going, he would snap: “Haven’t you read the brief?” One of her friends at that time told me that she had even started to feel some empathy with Diana’s manifold discontents."The author also claims that Camilla believed at one point before entering royal life that there was "an upside" to not being Charles’s wife, as she "hated flying, speaking in public, dressing up and getting press attention"."She had never had a calendar filled with things she didn’t want to do, which essentially defines the royal way of life", she added.But she later changed her mind, with the pair finally tying the knot on April 9, 2005 after announcing their engagement two months earlier.
They celebrated their 17th wedding anniversary last Saturday, with date also being the first anniversary of his father Prince Philip's death.Charles and Camilla first.
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