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 Philip hd photographer hide in fake pillar to get perfect photo of coffin at his funeral
ok.co.ukPrince Philip painstaking oversaw every detail of his own funeral. And it has now emerged that this included the addition of a hidden photographer tucked inside a fake pillar of the steps of St.
George’s Chapel.The Duke of Edinburgh asked 80-year-old longtime Royal snapper Arthur Edwards to take some especially angled snaps of his coffin during the funeral service.
Arthur, who had been photographing the prince for 40 years, was tasked with taking an incognito spot inside a white stone pillar on the steps of the chapel.
Hidden inside a “hidey-hole” pillar, the photographer was alone with his camera and was close up to the royal family and military men carrying the coffin.
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