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.
Prince Charles and Princess Diana's First Meeting Was Completely Different from on 'The Crown'
cosmopolitan.comfully dating Diana's older sister Lady Sarah. , they "sort of met in a plowed field" during a shoot, so it didn't exactly go down like it does on The Crown (in which they meet inside, while Diana is in costume).
During his engagement interview, Charles recalled meeting Di for the first time and thinking how "very jolly" she was, but again, he was dating Sarah at the time.
Like, there are pics and everything:Diana and Charles have their first romantic encounter at mutual friend Philip de Pass's home.
She actually talked about it at length during a taped conversation used in the documentary , saying, “He’d just broken up with his girlfriend and his friend Mountbatten had just been killed.
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