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.
Princess Diana Documentary Crew Defends Using ‘Panorama’ Clip Against Prince William’s Wishes
usmagazine.comThe creators of a new documentary about Princess Diana defended their decision to use a clip from the late royal’s controversial Panorama interview — after Prince William said he thought it should never be seen again.“This feature documentary tells the story of Princess Diana exclusively through archive footage from the time, without commentary from today,” a spokesperson for The Princess, which recently debuted on HBO, told People in a statement on Monday, August 15. “This interview is shown briefly, in context, as a moment of historical record.”The clip in question comes from a famous interview that Diana gave to the BBC’s Panorama in 1995.
The sit-down was later discredited after journalist Martin Bashir was accused of using unethical tactics to obtain an audience with the Princess of Wales.During the bombshell interview, the late royal discussed her battle with bulimia as well as the dissolution of her marriage to Prince Charles and his alleged affair with now-wife Camilla Parker Bowles, saying: “There were three of us in this marriage.”Earlier this year, BBC director general Tim Davie apologized to Charles, 73, William, 40, and Prince Harry for the interview.“It is a matter of great regret that the BBC did not get to the facts in the immediate aftermath of the program when there were warning signs that the interview might have been obtained improperly,” Davie said in a statement in July. “Instead, as The Duke of Cambridge himself put it, the BBC failed to ask the tough questions.
Had we done our job properly Princess Diana would have known the truth during her lifetime. We let her, The Royal Family and our audiences down.”The media exec claimed in his statement that the BBC would “never show the program again; nor
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