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.
Mel B spoke about some of the racist abuse she’d endure while in the Spice Girls in an emotional open letter. The singer, who has a white British mother and a Black father from the Caribbean island of Nevis, told OK!
Magazine: “Even when I was a world-famous Spice Girl playing a concert for Prince Charles and Nelson Mandela in South Africa, I was asked by a shop assistant in a designer store to get out.” She added of the 1997 incident, according to the Daily Mail: “The other girls were outraged and started screaming at the assistant.
I wasn’t shocked, I was embarrassed. “I was angry and I was really sad that a lot of people in post-Mandela South Africa were still racist.” RELATED: John Boyega Blasts ‘Racist White People’ In Rant After
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