Prince Charles
For this comment there should have been trouble with the Queen
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Does Prince Charles wait impatiently for his mother to finally abdicate? A rumor that, of course, Queen Elizabeth should not have been pleased at all.
It is one of the crucial questions that has been asked in the British royal family and across Great Britain for many years: When will Prince Charles (72) become King? Will he even still be? Or will the succession to the throne even jump directly to his eldest son Prince William (38)? The majority of Britons would welcome that, but what does Charles himself think of the most far-reaching change in his life?
There are always contradicting statements about this. Finally, it was said that Charles himself has no desire for the throne and that when the time comes, he will only do his duty. However, rumors are now emerging that say exactly the opposite.
Prince Charles: does he finally want to be king?
According to the author Matthew Dennison and his biography “The Queen”, a palace employee is said to have unpacked in the documentary “Charles at Fifty” that Charles would rather be happy if his mother, Queen Elizabeth (95), would abdicate. The 72-year-old thinks the monarchy needs to be radically modernized and he is impatient to start working on it.
The Queen is said to have confronted her son
A serious breach of trust, should Charles actually be of this opinion. But he is said to have denied these statements to his mother. When the Queen found out about it, she is said to have confronted her son. After all, it is not the first time that such rumors have surfaced and the Queen is very hurt about it. “In fact, an angry Elizabeth found him while visiting overseas and found he knew nothing of the allegations. A dutiful Charles responded by publicly calling the allegation ‘deeply offensive’, ‘hurtful’ and ‘completely wrong’. “
But did Prince Charles really know nothing of the allegations and did the palace employee pass on false information? Even if Matthew Dennison describes this alleged incident with Charles and the Queen in his book, he is also of the opinion to “Express” that Charles has no great ambitions to become king and that he is actually very satisfied with his life as a prince.
This article originally appeared on GALA.de.
Sources used: express.co.uk