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 William promises George: ‘I’ll fight for a normal life’
newidea.com.auAccording to royal historian and author Robert Lacey, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge sat their eldest son down a year or so ago and told him that he will one day become king of England, following, as ruler, in the footsteps of his great-grandmother Queen Elizabeth II, grandfather Prince Charles, and father. “Maybe one day George will tell us the story himself,” Robert writes in his book Battle of Brothers. “But sometime around the boy’s seventh birthday in the [northern] summer of 2020 it is thought that his parents went into more detail about what the little prince’s life of future royal ‘service and duty’ would particularly involve.”
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