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King Charles III became king upon his mother Queen Elizabeth II’s death on 8 September 2022. Aged 73, he became the oldest person to accede to the British throne, having been the longest-serving heir apparent and Prince of Wales in British history. Charles became heir apparent aged 3 when his mother, Elizabeth II, acceded to the throne in ...
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Sep 29, 2022 · His Majesty King Charles III immediately succeeded to the Throne upon the death of his mother, Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, on the afternoon of Thursday 8 September. To quote the Victorian constitutionalist Walter Bagehot, the Accession of a monarch animates both the “dignified” and “efficient” parts of the uncodified British constitution.
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1960s
1. I think it's something that dawns on you with the most ghastly, inexorable sense. I didn't suddenly wake up in my pram one day and say 'Yippee, I —', you know. But I think it just dawns on you, you know, slowly, that people are interested in one, and slowly you get the idea that you have a certain duty and responsibility. 1.1. "The Prince of Wales: Full text of replies in radio debut", The Times, 3 March 1969, p. 3. 1.2. Asked when he had first realised that he was heir to the throne, in a...
1970s
1. When people are uncertain about what is right and what is wrong, and anxious about being considered old-fashioned, it seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people. 1.1. Clifford Longley, "Handicaps of royalty are highlighted by Prince's controversial remarks", The Times(Monday, 3 July 1978), p. 2 1.2. Speech to the International Congress of the Salvation Army at the Empire Pool, Wembley,...
1980s
1. Delighted and frankly amazed that Diana is prepared to take me on. 1.1. BBC News online'On this day', 24 February 1981. 1.2. Interview with the BBC on announcing his engagement to Lady Diana Spencer. 1. Anthony Carthew (ITN): And, I suppose, in love? Lady Diana Spencer: Of course! Charles, Prince of Wales: Whatever 'in love' means. 1.1. "Anthony Carthew" (Obituary), The Times, 22 January 2007. 1.2. On announcing his engagement to Lady Diana Spencer (1981 Feb-July) 1. I have often thought t...
Listed in alphabetical order by author or source. Convinced republican that I am, and foe of the prince who talks to plants and wants to be crowned "head of all faiths" as well as the etiolated Church of England, I find myself pierced by a pang of sympathy. Not much of a life, is it, growing old and stale with no real job except waiting for the new...
Sep 12, 2022 · Below are eight funny King Charles quotes that prove the monarch has his mother’s wicked sense of humour. 1. I just come and talk to the plants, really – very important to talk to them, they respond, I find. 2. There’s nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something. 3.
- On Wales. One of Charles’s first big public speaking moments was at his investiture as Prince of Wales in 1969, when he was 20 years old. Some 4,000 guests at Caernarfon Castle and hundreds of millions of television viewers around the world watched him kneel before his mother and pledge allegiance to the queen.
- On the environment and climate change. By the fall of the year of his investiture, Charles was voicing concern about what people were doing to the planet — an issue that would become an animating lifelong passion.
- On religion. Charles is a regular churchgoer, but he is known to be more spiritual than religious. In a 1994 documentary, he was asked about the coronation oath that would one day require him to vow to be “Defender of the Faith” and protect the established Church of England.
- On architecture. Charles has long been at war with modern architecture. In his 1989 manifesto “A Vision for Britain,” he railed against the postwar brutalist concrete bunkers being built in Britain, these “Frankenstein monsters, devoid of character, alien and largely unloved.”
May 6, 2023 · March 1983: Charles writes about Diana on tour in Australia and New Zealand In 1983, Diana the Princess of Wales undertook her first overseas tour with Prince Charles, aged just 22.
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