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.
King Charles' ex-classmate says he hoarded monarch's hair clippings for 50 years
dailystar.co.ukREAD MORE: King Charles booed by anti-monarchists at proclamation as police arrest woman, 22Richard gained the lock by visiting a barber straight after the then Prince of Wales and pocketed it as a memento.He has kept it in an envelope ever since.He told Nine News: “The then Prince Charles was waiting to get his hair cut and I was waiting for his to be completed.“I noticed his hair drop onto the floor.
It was all his because he was the first one to have his haircut.“I must say it's a different colour than the hair we see today,”Richard said Charles had been a prefect at the school and once caught him smoking but didn’t snitch to a teacher.He went on: “It was a dark room on the side of our living quarters and I was having a Marlboro and he happened to pop into the boiler room.“I don't know whether he called me Kumnick or not but he said, ‘I will have those thank you’.“I was pleased that that was as far as it went because if it had gone any further I would have ended up in Mr Hanley's office.”Asked whether he reckoned Charles would make a good monarch, Richard said: “Oh, I think he will be in the same vein as his mother.“He would be perfect.
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