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.
asking her friends to call her “Catherine” instead of “Kate” before her engagement to Prince William is headline-worthy.Per , in a new book, Catherine, the Princess of Wales, author Robert Jobson writes that in 2008, Kate wrote her friends a “humorous email,” in which she asked them to start calling her by her full name.
This would imply that, perhaps, Kate was already preparing for her new royal life before she was engaged. Prince William actually proposed, as far as we know anyway, in 2010.
Or maybe she just wanted to go by her full name for personal reasons. Either way, it clearly didn't take.The new biography also contains other nuggets of information about the princess, who's been under more than the usual amount of scrutiny since her six-month absence from public life.
For instance, .“In marrying the elder son of Prince Charles, Catherine was aware she’d one day have to tread in her late mother-in-law’s footsteps—but the prospect of becoming the Princess of Wales held little appeal,” Jobson wrote. “She knew she’d inevitably be compared with Diana, whose untimely death had provoked such a tsunami of anger and grief.
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