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.
All those royal divorces may be old news, but the impact they made on Queen Elizabeth was kept pretty quiet.
The longest-reigning British monarch has always been a “Keep Calm and Carry On” kinda gal. Over 70 years of queendom, there have been a lot of scandals (see: The Crown), but she tended to meet them with cool stoicism.
In public, at least. Related: Prince Andrew’s Secret Nighttime Visits To Mum To Discuss Sexual Assault Lawsuit… A new biography, Queen of Our Times: The Life of Queen Elizabeth II by Robert Hardman, reveals Elizabeth’s private pain during 1992, aka her “annus horribilis.” That year featured the dissolution of three of her children’s marriages: Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips, and most famously of course, Prince Charles and Princess Diana.
In an excerpt obtained by People, Hardman wrote: A former staffer dished to the author: TBH, while divorce is obviously pretty common among the commoners, we have to agree the Royal Family’s situation was a statistical anomaly.
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