King Charles III’s Sweetest Moments With Late Mother Queen Elizabeth II Through the Years: Photos
usmagazine.comNearly five years before Queen Elizabeth II assumed the British throne, she and husband Prince Philip welcomed their first child, son King Charles III.The late queen, who died in 2022 after 70 years as England’s monarch, gave birth to Charles when she was still Princess Elizabeth.
Her Majesty assumed the throne in February 1952 following the death of her father, King George VI. Elizabeth’s coronation was held the following June — with the former Duke of Edinburgh, who died in 2021, Charles and daughter Princess Anne, born in 1950, by her side.“I shall never forget when we were small, having a bath, and she came in practicing wearing the crown before the coronation,” Charles recalled of his mother during a 2022 interview for the BBC, which aired after her death that September. “All those sorts of marvelous moments, I shall never forget. … She was always there, I could talk to her about this, that, or the other.
I think that’s always going to be something that will be very difficult not to have.”Charles, then 3, became his mother’s heir apparent after she assumed the throne.
As His Majesty grew up, he received a number of new titles including Duke of Cornwall, Duke of Rothesay, Earl of Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles and Prince and Great Steward of Scotland.
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