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.
Queen Elizabeth’s beacon pageant master: Who is he and what is his role in the Platinum Jubilee?
foxnews.comQueen Elizabeth is celebrating her Platinum Jubilee, which begins on June 2 and runs through the weekend, concluding on June 5.There will be days full of celebration and one man is helping to kick off the festivities.
Bruno Peek is the Queen’s beacon pageant master who participated in the monarch’s Golden and Diamond Jubilees. Peek’s role is to coordinate the beacon-lighting ceremony in honor of Queen Elizabeth’s 70 years on the throne.
Peek, 70, is currently a pageant master, but has taken on a series of other roles in his life including a welder, baker, butcher and builder’s laborer prior to becoming the Queen’s beacon master.
Pageant master of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Beacons Bruno Peek, center, with the Jubilee Crystal Diamond, at the Tower of London, in central London, where the crystal is to be kept until Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. (Photo by Dominic Lipinski/PA Images via Getty Images) Queen Elizabeth’s Golden Jubilee took place in 2002 and her Diamond Jubilee ten years later in 2012.
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