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 recalls moment Queen practiced her coronation while he was in the bath
ok.co.ukKing Charles has recalled a sweet memory of his late mother The Queen practicing wearing the crown ahead of her coronation when the young prince was in the bath.
The new monarch, 73, joined his siblings in sharing their memories of their mother in which Charles, who referred to his mother’s death as the “moment he’d been dreading”, remembered the sweet story from his childhood.
The Royal Family spoke on the BBC One Special – A Tribute to Her Majesty the Queen. King Charles shared the tale he remembered from the tender age of three in the lead up to his mother’s coronation in 1953.
He said: “I shall never forget, when we were small, having a bath and she came in practicing wearing the crown before the coronation. "All those sorts of marvellous moments, I shall never forget." Seventy years on from his early memory of his mother becoming Queen, Charles has had more training in the preparation to becoming King than any other previous British monarch.
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