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.
Long term stately home rentals are booming - there's just one potentially devastating catch
telegraph.co.ukKirtlington Park, Oxfordshire’s second largest mansion after Blenheim Palace, and available to rent for £28,000 a week. Guests at the mid-18th century mansion have included Prince Charles and Ivana Trump, Darcy Bussell got married there, Elizabeth Taylor tried to buy it, and the entire contents of the dining room, from the plasterwork to the marble fireplace, were shipped to New York in the 1920s to be displayed in the Met Museum.One of the “finest country houses”, however, says Jess Simpson, is Farleigh Wallop, a 4,000-acre Hampshire estate that has been in the Wallop family’s hands for nearly 600 years.
The house has 11 suites, four reception rooms and 10 acres of gardens, including a boating lake, and Simpson recently secured it for.
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