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.
Prince William and Prince Harry are set to be shocked by new claims in a TV documentary. The drama for the Royal Family continues as a former bodyguard of their mother, Princess Diana, is about to reveal all about her alleged "affair" with James Hewitt.In a Channel 5 documentary airing next week, Ken Wharfe, who was Princess Diana's bodyguard from 1987 to 1993, will also claim that during a holiday in Majorca with her sons, Diana expressed her distress over husband Charles' affair with Camilla."She told me in short about the problems with her marriage with Camilla always being there," Ken tells Secrets of the Royal Palaces, which airs on March 23. "Suddenly to hear it in full verse from the Princess of Wales was quite extraordinary." "I found I understood this woman much more as a result of this discussion because it did help me for example to police the occasions she met James Hewitt at his mother's house in Devon.", reports the Mirror.
Before the documentary airs, Ken spoke on The Sun's Royal Exclusive show about working with William and Harry when they were children."It was a very happy union.
It was a very happy family," he said. "What I will say is Diana and her husband [the then-Prince Charles] at that time were going through a very difficult period of their life."But both of them didn't want their situation to be known by the children.
They had a blissful happy life at that point."Ken mentioned that Prince William might have felt a bit jealous of Prince Harry's ability to make people laugh.He said: "Harry was always the joker, the entertainer.
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