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.
‘Hysterical’ Princess Diana told Queen Elizabeth she hated Charles: ‘He’s a nightmare’
nypost.comfairy-tale marriage to the then-Prince Charles turned sour as the years went on, with the late royal often trying to confide in her mother-in-law, Queen Elizabeth II, for help.Diana — who died in a car crash in 1997 — married (now King) Charles, 75, in a lavish ceremony in 1981 and they divorced in 1996.“My Mother and I” author Ingrid Seward recently claimed that the Princess of Wales would lament about her failing marriage to the queen; however, the monarch allegedly didn’t do much to help.“Diana used to go to her private room in between appointments that the queen had, which were every 20 minutes, and burst into tears,” Seward told Fox News recently. “[She would say], ‘Everybody hates me, mama, and I hate my husband.
He’s a nightmare.’”“The queen would just stand there [horrified], and Diana would be getting more and more hysterical,” the royal expert continued.
The sovereign reportedly “didn’t know how to handle it, but she thought Charles should know how to handle it. That was a very low point in the relationship.”The marriage was marred with difficulties, as Charles and Diana were seemingly incompatible.
Charles was 13 years older than Diana, who was just 20 years old when they tied the knot. He also embarked on a decades-long on-again/off-again affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles, whom he married in 2005.“[Queen Elizabeth] couldn’t understand how her son, who was in his early 30s, couldn’t handle a woman who was only in her early 20s.
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