The Prince of Wales’s Sixty-Sixth Birthday

On November 14, the Prince of Wales celebrated his sixty-sixth birthday. To celebrate, a number of royal gun salutes were fired, including a 62-gun salute during an engagement to Stratford-upon-Avon, where he visited the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Prince Charles was born in 1948 at Buckingham Palace in London. He is the eldest son and child of the then Duke and Duchess (now Queen Elizabeth II) of Edinburgh. He has three younger siblings; Princess Anne (b. 1950), Prince Andrew (b. 1960) and Prince Edward (b. 1964). Charles was christened in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace on 15 December 1948, and his godparents were King George VI, King Haakon VII of Norway, Queen Mary, Princess Margaret, Prince George of Greece and Denmark, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven, the Lady Brabourne and the Hon. David Bowes-Lyon. His full name is Charles Philip Arthur George.

As the oldest son and child of the British monarch, Prince Charles was officially installed as Prince of Wales and Earl of Chester in 1968, in a televised ceremony.

On 29 July 1981 at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer. Diana became a much loved public figure and she and Charles had two children: the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry, born in 1982 and 1984 respectively. However, the couple divorced in 1996 and Diana passed away following a car crash in Paris in 1997.

Prince Charles’s second and current wife is Camilla Parker-Bowles, whom he married in 2005 and is now known as the Duchess of Cornwall.

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