King 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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