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's tragic insight into royal life in devastating letter to pal
mirror.co.ukPrincess Diana pondered what she would do in her 30s in a tragic letter to a close friend. The Princess of Wales wrote to Dudley Poplak to thank him for three drawings he had produced for her to mark her 30th birthday in July 1991 - a year before she separated from Prince Charles and six years before she was killed in a car crash in Paris.
The handwritten note has come to light as it goes on sale, expected to fetch about £600. She wrote: "I do wonder what the next ten years will bring, the last ten I have learnt a great deal in an interesting way!" Charles and Diana had a notoriously difficult marriage in which both are acknowledged to have had extra-marital affairs.
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