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Prince of retirement age
The heir to the British throne Prince Charles celebrates the 65th anniversary today
Charles set a peculiar record: he was waiting for the throne for the longest princes in British history. The anniversary of the Prince of Wales is widely celebrated in the UK, where he became an occasion to once again discuss the chances of the prince to become a king in the foreseeable future.
One of the British television programs, dedicated to the anniversary of Prince Charles, was called "Life in anticipation", and the American magazine Time came out with a portrait of the prince on the cover and with the inscription "Forgotten Prince". However, it would be wrong to assume that the prince is sleeping and sees himself on the throne. The Daily Telegraph newspaper quotes the words of one of his assistants, who stated that the Prince of Wales did not seek to become king at all and that for him the role of the monarch is equivalent to imprisonment.
Commenting on Charles's protracted stay in the role of a crown prince, one of the London tabloids calculated that he would become a king of 78 years. The calculations were built on the fact that the current Queen Elizabeth is the second, which is now 87 years old, should repeat the age record of her mother, who died in the 102nd year of life. All this gave rise to talk in Britain about the need to convey the throne after Elizabeth the second not Charles, but to his eldest son to Prince William.
However, the Buckingham Palace has shallow such an opportunity, saying that the law on the succession to the throne will not be violated and the traditional continuity of inheritance of the throne will be observed. The queen made it clear that the grandiose scandal in the Windsor house well remembers when her crowned uncle King Edward eight abdicated in 1938 due to the marriage to the divorced American Wallis Simpson.
In England, they write a lot and talk about the coldness between Elizabeth the second and her eldest son. Some commentators blame the queen in this, others believe that the whole thing is in the character of Charles, who is shy by nature and who always had difficulties with communication even in his own family. All attempts by parents to make the heir to the throne of a sociable and charismatic statesman broke about his character.
- Suiting psychologically to the personality of the prince, we can explain the characteristics of his character. Modern psychology would determine its condition as a pliable. It seems paradoxical that about a person who was brought up in a privileged environment, we can say that he had a injured childhood. Despite all the life comfort and honors, Charles in childhood practically did not communicate with his parents. The Queen and her husband Prince Philip were preoccupied with the performance of official duties, traveling around the world. The prince’s lonely childhood illustrates a documentary, which is shown from time to time on television. There is an episode when the queen, after an almost one -year absence, returns to England - after the coronation, she visited the British overseas territories. At the Victoria station, she is met by the Queen Mother and the young Prince Charles. It can be seen from this film that when they approached the queen, Charles simply did not recognize his mother, he did not understand who this woman was. The grandmother with whom he arrived at the station meant much more for him than his mother. And when the prince grew up, the grandmother and relative of his father Lord Mountbitten had a greater influence on him than his parents.
Grandmother meant much more for him than mother.
His mother Elizabeth is the second - a woman with a very developed sense of duty. She devoted her life to state duties. This is not to say that she had a warm relationship with children. She has an introvert character, you can’t call her a heart woman. The prince’s father also had problems with communication with his son. In his mentality, Prince Philip is a typical marine officer, he is not characterized by sentimentality and any manifestations of emotional attachment. Charles was left to himself and needed family warmth. Nevertheless, I am absolutely convinced that Prince Charles can become a wonderful king. On the eve of his anniversary in Britain, several polls of public opinion was held, which showed that the prince was using a high prestige in his country, ”said Royal Biographer Robert Life.
Prince Charles on these anniversary days meets with friends in Scotland, where he has an estate and where, having changed into national Scottish costumes, in the evenings behind a glass of grog they listen to a folk Scottish song about a guy who was born to be a king, and his imminent accession to the throne. “Like a bird rushing a longboat in a wave,” is sung in a song, “faster than sailors a call. On the sea to the island of Sky, born to become a king, is floating to the island.”