The new king charles iii He has always been one of the most notorious members of the British royal family; his path to reach the top of royalty was marked by studies, conflicts and divided opinions in the United Kingdom.
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Born on November 14, 1948 at Buckingham Palace, LondonCarlos Felipe Arturo Jorge Windsor is the first of the four children of the Queen isabel II Y Philip.
He was a shy and sensitive boy when he was made Prince of Wales in 1958 at the age of nine. After, he would be sent to study at Gordonstoun, an austere boarding school in Scotland that his father had attended and that instead of forging a rough character for him, it was “absolute hell” for him.
The king promised to respect constitutional principles.
In 1970, he became the first heir to the British throne with a diploma, from Cambridge University.where he studied archeology and anthropology.
Between 1971 and 1976 he served in the British Navy. To her bewilderment, while on assignment in the Caribbean, the love of her life, Camilla Shand, married Andrew Parker Bowles.
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With the £7,500 he was paid when he left the army, he set up The Prince’s Trust, a charity that in 2016 claimed to have helped more than 825,000 struggling young people over 40 years.
Pressured to marry, he proposed to Diana Spencer, then 19, in February 1981, a few months into their relationship.
The wedding was held in July at Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London and was a great national celebration. They had two children: Guillermo in 1982 and Enrique in 1984.
The couple separated in 1992 and divorced in 1996, when the crown prince was already having an affair with Camilla Parker Bowles, divorced in 1995.
After Diana’s death in a Paris car accident in 1997, it took Carlos a public relations campaign to turn the page on his unpopularity.
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In 2005 he married Camila, outgoing and smiling, who ended up winning the sympathy of most Britons.
Carlos “went a long way to win back the public,” recalled his biographer Penny Junor. “Since he married Camila he is much happier,” she told AFP.
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