THE MISUNDERSTANDED PRINCE

Charles Phillip Arthur George

He was born on November 14, 1948 at Buckingham Palace in London, United Kingdom. He is the eldest son of the then Princess of Wales Elizabeth, future Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Charles was educated at home until he was eight years old and then attended different schools in the UK and abroad.

At age 21, Charles completed his military training in the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. The following year, he became Prince of Wales, a title given to the heir to the British throne. Since then, Prince Charles has played a very active role in the public life of the United Kingdom and has been the main benefactor of various philanthropic causes. Charles was, with 64 years of work, the crown prince with the longest service, appointed in 1958, invested in 1969, until the death of his mother in 2022.

In 1981 he married Diana Spencer, with whom he fathered his children, Princes William and Harry. Diana and Charles divorced in 1996 after years of incompatibility and scandals.

In addition to his role as Prince of Wales, Charles has held various positions and has founded and led charitable, cultural and environmental organisations.

On April 9, 2005, he married his current consort, Camilla Shand, with whom he had a sentimental bond since youth, even though they were both living through their respective marriages, he with Diana Spencer and she with the polo player and army brigadier British, Andrew Parker Bowles.

After the death of his mother, Elizabeth II, in September 2022, Charles swiftly assumed the royal investiture as the new monarch of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth nations.

As monarch, Charles has promised to continue his philanthropic work and promote education, sustainability and culture in the United Kingdom and the world, but above all, to modernize and make an ancient institution compatible with today.

CHARLES III IS CHALLENGED TO CONTINUE THE LEGACY OF HIS MOTHER, ELIZABETH II, AND HIS GRANDFATHER, GEORGE

VI, AS THE STRONGEST LINK BETWEEN THE BRITISH PEOPLE AND THEIR INSTITUTIONS AND AS THE CHIEF AMBASSADOR OF INFLUENTIAL BRITISH CULTURE TO THE WORLD.