Charles III (born 14 November 1948) was the King of the United Kingdom from 8 September 2022, succeeding Elizabeth II.
Biography[]
Charles Mountbatten-Windsor was born in Buckingham Palace, London on 14 November 1948, the oldest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was educated at Cheam and Gordonstoun schools, schools which his father had attended as a young man, and he went on to study at the University of Cambridge. He was made Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay in 1952 and Prince of Wales in 1958, and he was invested as Prince on 1 July 1969 after being tutored in the Welsh language by the nationalist politician Edward Millward. He served in the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy from 1971 to 1976, and he married Princess Diana in 1981; they had two sons, Prince William and Prince Harry. In 1996, the couple divorced after both of them engaged in highly-publicized extramarital affairs, and Diana died in a car crash a year later. In 2005, Charles remarried to Camilla Parker Bowles. Charles was a major philanthropist, environmentalist, alternative medicine advocate, and author, and he undertook official duties on behalf of the Queen and the Commonwealth realms. In 2022, he succeeded his mother as Queen of the United Kingdom on her death at the age of 96.
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