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.
Was Prince Charles really nearly killed in an avalanche as depicted in The Crown?
evoke.iesaid at the time that the group had been stationary when the avalanche began.The run where the accident occurred was described as ‘a slope of awesome steepness, dropping about 500 meters (yards)’ in the 1988 Good Ski Guide but we’re not sure an avalanche adds to its ‘awesome’ factor.Princess Diana and a pregnant Sarah Ferguson were also on the trip but weren’t on the slopes at the time.It wasn’t the first time the group had skied there with Charles frequenting the slopes in his bachelor days and is hailed as helping Klosters get its elite status.It cut the royal’s trip short as they had only landed in Switzerland on Tuesday March 8 and Charles, Diana, Prince Andrew and Fergie had happily posed for photographs only the day before.So while.
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