In a series of royal events that is expected to attract leaders from around the world in a colourful ceremony, the United Kingdom is set to officially crown Charles and his wife Camilla today.
Africa Today News, New York Charles Philip Arthur George who will be officially known as King Charles III, was born on November 14, 1948, and is the first-born son of the late Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
As monarch, the 73-year-old grandfather of five will serve as king of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth sovereign states. Officially, he has been king since his mother, the UK’s longest-reigning monarch, died on September 8, 2022.
The Monarch who has been described by biographers as ‘a sensitive man’, he is a keen horticulturalist, and enjoys tending to an organic garden in his countryside manor.
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He is also believed to be a skilled watercolour painter and has interest in traditional countryside practices such as hedge laying. His mother made him Prince of Wales in 1958 at the age of nine, but his investiture was not until 11 years later.
As a young man, commentators say, he did not have much in common with his parents, but relations would improve as he got older.
He studied in the United Kingdom and Australia, reading archaeology, anthropology and history at Trinity College, Cambridge in the late 1960s before becoming a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot. He has conducted royal service since the late 1970s.
Pope Francis had last week gifted the monarch his blessings in the form of a rare gift – pieces of wood from the True Cross of Jesus Christ.
Africa Today News, New York reports that the two small fragments sized one centimetre and five millimetres have been incorporated into the Cross of Wales which will lead the monarch’s coronation procession.
Pictures reveal that the pieces have also been shaped into a cross and set in a gemstone which is placed in the middle of the bigger silver cross.