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 was foraging mushrooms as Queen Elizabeth lay dying: tell-all
nypost.comnot the gossipy kind.A new book has alleged that then-Prince Charles was in the woods foraging in the muck for mushrooms on Sept.
8, the day Queen Elizabeth died.Charles, 74, flew to Balmoral Castle with his sister, Princess Anne, that morning after they were alerted about their mother’s bad health, wrote Robert Jobson in his book “Our King: Charles III: The Man and the Monarch Revealed.” After spending several hours with the queen, Charles went to his nearby Birkhall estate, as there “seemed no immediate reason for alarm,” according to an excerpt published in the Daily Mail.Charles then went for a walk in the “surrounding woods, armed with a walking cane and a basket” to scope for vegetables.“More importantly, he was drawing solace and strength from the trees, the smell of the earth and the murmur of the River Muick,” Jobson wrote.“Understandably lost in thought, the prince knew that the defining moment of his life, at the advanced age of 73, was fast approaching: the death of his mother and his accession as king,” he added.While his protection officers had “deliberately hung back to give him some privacy,” they knew which part of the grounds Charles was scrounging for mushrooms. “It was one of these officers who went to find Charles to inform him that the queen’s condition had dramatically worsened,” Jobson noted, saying that his mother “ebbed away.”Charles then quickly returned to Balmoral Castle and was able to be by the sovereign’s bedside when she died around 3:10 p.m.
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