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.
'King Charles is a deep-thinking, spiritual man. He couldn't be more relevant to life today'
ok.co.ukIn the 1980s, when greed was good and yuppies checked their stocks on massive mobile phones, the then Prince Charles was something of an anomaly.
Married to one of the most famous women in the world, Diana, Princess of Wales, he seemed most comfortable pottering among his plants and contemplating the spiritual works of Jungian mystic Laurens van der Post.
Fast forward 40 years, and it’s evident King Charles III was the one with his finger on the pulse all along. It was the rest of the world that needed time to catch up.
Royal expert Katie Nicholl calls our new monarch “a man ahead of his time”, and says: “When you look at what he’s done in terms of his work… trying to preserve the green belt, trying to preserve architecture, agricultural methods and techniques, trying to protect the soil and not over-farming, the warnings that he issued over GM crops, the benefits of organic farming, I mean the list goes on. “These are all the things he was championing years ago.
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