“The Coronation of Charles III: The Long-Awaited Successor”

Eternal Prince. She invented such a nickname for the current British king Charles III. tabloid media in the long years when his mother Elizabeth II was still firmly on the throne of the United Kingdom. Already this Saturday will be Charles III. formally crowned knowing that no other predecessor in British history had expected to the crown of St. Edward as long as he, that is, fully 70 years, and no other lived to be crowned at an older age than he.

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Looking back at his statements and the comments of experts in recent years, it might seem that Prince Charles has come to terms with his fate as an eternal wait-and-see. For example, when he celebrated his 71st birthday in 2019 and it was already clear that he would ascend the throne as the oldest person in British history, he took it in stride, according to the media. “He reacted to his age record with humor and noted that he was simply doing another job and enjoying his freedom,” the magazine wrote at the time Forbes.

But there were also times when the prince definitely did not joke about his succession. According to some sources, he even worked for his mother to abdicate at certain times, although it must be admitted that this is more of a level of speculation and no one has ever officially confirmed anything like that. However, according to proponents of the “Charles Plot” theory, Kull’s plans to take over the throne were thwarted by him Princess Diana.

Mother and son, queen and heir

Relationship of Charles III. and Elizabeth II. are often referred to by royal family experts as complicated. According to what has leaked out of Buckingham Palace over the years, the relationship between mother-queen and son-heir has been rather cold and formal for years. There were several reasons for this. “A sensitive romantic by nature, he had little in common with his straight-laced and seldom-expressed parents,” writes the magazine Vanity Fair citing royal biographers.

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Due to the untimely death of their father and grandfather George VI. in addition Elizabeth II. and Charles didn’t even get a proper chance to become mother and son with a strong bond. The prince was three years old when his mother became queen. “I think her accession to the throne at such an early age destroyed any thought of a normal family life,” royal biographer Philip Ziegler said.

Footage from the childhood of the British King Charles III:

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The mother was therefore completely overwhelmed with responsibilities and the care of the children was mainly taken over by the nannies. The eldest son sought motherly love from them or from his grandmother, Queen Mother Elizabeth. He didn’t even get along with his father, who was very strict with the prince in an attempt to toughen up his son.

And so the relationship between the prince and his parents became more and more formal. “Charles could not turn to them and discuss with them the problems of his personal life or his position as a public figure. They did not reflect his charitable work and he knew very well that no one cared about his opinions. The emotional gulf between the prince and his parents was difficult to bridge, and their communication with each other was limited to exchanging polite phrases and dealing with the formalities of “the family business,” journalist Jonathan Dimbleby wrote in a landmark biography of the prince in 1994.

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The fact that Charles would one day replace his mother on the throne also entered into all of this. For her, he was a constant reminder that someone was waiting to take her place. And for him, that meant that in order for him to truly become who he was raised to be, his mother must first die or leave the throne to him. “According to Sally Bedell Smith, author of the book Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life, those close to Charles heard him ask from time to time: Why isn’t he abdicating anymore?,” reports Vanity Fair magazine.

Life of Charles III.

• He was born on November 14, 1948 to Elizabeth II. and Prince Philip as the first of four children.

• He was three years old when his mother became the British monarch and he was therefore the first heir to the throne.

• As the first British heir to the throne in history, he received a university education. He studied history at the University of Cambridge.

• Served in the British Air Force and Navy, later devoted himself to the duties arising from his position as heir to the throne. He is the patron of many charities.

• In 1976, he founded The Prince’s Trust to help socially disadvantaged young people, which is his most prominent charity project. He is also a passionate conservationist, and has been working on the topic for more than half a century.

• Between 1981 and 1996, he was married to Princess Diana, with whom they had two sons – the first heir to the throne, Prince William and Prince Harry.

• In 2005, he married his longtime girlfriend, currently Queen Consort Camilla.

Source: British Royal Family website

A plan to overthrow the queen?

According to some experts on the royal family, however, in a certain period it was not just a rhetorical question and the current one King Charles III the dilemma of how to really arrange the queen’s abdication began. This was to happen in the 1990s, when Charles’s unhappy marriage to Princess Diana (whom he married because of her parents and expectations of the heir to the throne) was in ruins and his relationship with Elizabeth II. after years of personal suffering at freezing point.

Circumstances were overwhelming for the then Prince of Wales. The popularity of Elizabeth II. it declined at the time due to social and economic problems in the United Kingdom, and the British monarchy desperately needed to adapt to the changing times in order to survive. But the Queen rather rejected more radical changes, while Prince Charles had more modern views.

Prince Charles at the funeral procession.Source: ČTK/AP/Victoria Jones

Series 5 elaborated on the whispers that he decided to use these circumstances to his advantage of the popular series The Crown from the Netflix workshop. According to the authors of the award-winning series, who consulted with royal family experts and biographers, Prince Charles even secretly met with then-Prime Minister John Major to discuss the matter and gain his support for his ascension to the throne.

But it is necessary to keep in mind that the Crown is still only a drama. Although experts agree that Charles wanted his mother’s abdication, opinions differ quite a bit about how many steps he actually took to do so.

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Both John Major and his office denied that the secret meeting between the two men had taken place. The former prime minister even declared that it was nonsense and pure fiction. In addition, in a specific episode of the meeting, the Crown connected with a completely fictitious survey about the fact that the British considered the abdication of Elizabeth II. they wished.

But there are also those who claim that Charles actually planned the overthrow of his mother. “Princess Diana’s personal secretary Patrick Jephson said in response to the series that Charles did have a similar conversation – just not with the Major,” the magazine notes People. According to Jephson, the successor was already exploring his options with the previous prime minister. But he would have to talk to Margaret Thatcher about his mother’s possible abdication, and there are no reports of anything like that ever happening.

Prince Charles and Diana’s wedding:

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Britain’s most hated ex-husband

Whatever the truth, it sure doesn’t matter. Further events of the 1990s dashed any possible dreams of Charles to ascend the throne as soon as possible. He brought an opponent into the fight against whom he could not win – his cheating wife Diana.

When she began to publicly wash the dirty laundry of their failed marriage, the successor’s popularity dropped to a minimum. When the hugely popular “Princess of Human Hearts” opened up about how Charles’ infidelity with his now-wife Camilla had taken its toll on her, it would be hard to find anyone in the UK who would take the prince’s side. “Charles’ public image was badly tarnished,” the server recalls France24.

Then, in addition, a blow came in the form of Diana’s tragic death, which marked one of the worst crises not only of Charles’s life, but also of the entire reign of Elizabeth II. The current king Charles III. he had to exert all his energies to regain the favor of the public. But many never forgave him. “Even though he gradually managed to evoke a positive feeling in the British public towards his person, he still remained less popular than other members of the royal family,” the magazine notes Time.

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Only this century brought peace to his personal life and the position of heir to the throne. In 2005, he was finally able to marry the love of his life. And in his advanced age, his relationship with Elizabeth II also began to improve. “She began to recognize more of Charles’s enormous contributions to charity,” reports Vanity Fair magazine.

The queen also gradually involved the prince more and more in royal activities, began to really perceive his opinions and even showed her love for her eldest son. The improvement of relations was also visible in public speeches, when Charles III. he began to use the personal designation “Mother” when addressing the Queen, and she in turn made it clear that she had accepted Camilla into the family. “As time went on, they finally got closer. I think there is no doubt that he greatly admired his mother. And a strong mutual respect developed between them,” royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams told Vanity Fair.