New Monarch
From the moment he drew his first breath, his fate in life was sealed. Given that he was the first-born child and a boy, Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor was destined to one day be king.
Just three years old when his grandfather George VI died and his mother Elizabeth II became Queen – and he became heir apparent – it was to be several more years before it sunk in that he would follow in her footsteps to become monarch.
In an interview when he was 21, the then Prince Charles revealed that as a small boy, he wanted
