A fortune of £1.8 billion
The monarch’s personal wealth is estimated at the beginning of 2023, not according to tax returns. According to estimates by The Guardian journalists, who published a large-scale investigation into Charles’ estate, it reaches £1.8 billion. Newspaper, II. After Elizabeth’s death, he learned that exactly this amount was at the king’s disposal – in the form of cash, cars, real estate, horses, jewelry and other valuable things, including, for example, a unique collection of stamps.
There are 23 cars in the Windsor garage, with a total value of up to £6.3 million. The property owned by the monarch is estimated at £330 million. The jewels, 54 pieces of which belong to the royal family, have a total value of £533 million, plus income from investments and land rental. At the same time, the royal family of Great Britain is exempt from taxes, so Charles III received his mother’s inheritance without paying a penny to the state treasury.
teddy bear in pocket
The most faithful and oldest friend of King Charles III is a teddy bear, with whom he has not been separated since childhood. The ruler always takes the toy with him on trips. According to Christopher Andersen, author of “The King: The Life of Charles III,” responsibility for the bear cub long fell on Charles’ closest advisor, Michael Fossett, and was the only person allowed to repair the toy when necessary. Mabel Anderson, who was once Prince Charles’ nanny. As Fossett recalled in Andersen’s book, when Prince Charles was already over 40, “every time the bear was repaired it looked as if his child was undergoing complicated surgery.”
Disliking women wearing make-up
His youngest son, Prince Harry, appears as King George III in his controversial book The Spare One. He talked about Charles’ views on women’s appearance. When talking about meeting her father’s fiancée, Meghan Markle, she made two statements: The monarch prefers women to wear loose hair and minimal makeup.
“His hair had fallen out; I was the one who suggested she do this hairstyle. My father likes when women wear their hair down. And my grandmother too. Prince Harry always talked about Kate (Prince William’s wife – socialbites.ca) “beautiful mane”, he said. Meghan Markle’s simple make-up on the day she was to meet her future father-in-law was also Harry’s idea: “Meg wore very little make-up; this was my suggestion. My father does not approve of women wearing bright make-up.”
Young love for Barbra Streisand
The object of Prince Charles’ youthful love was American singer Barbra Streisand – the heir to the throne even hung a poster with her picture in his dorm room at Cambridge University. This love grew over time into a close friendship – after the British prince met the singer in 1974. Charles found Streisand incredibly sexy, but he himself maintains that their relationship was entirely platonic.
The singer described her first meeting with the future king in the book “My name is Barbra”. According to the artist, he first saw a fan in a recording studio, where he came with journalists and photographers: “I was drinking tea and offered him a sip… And the future English king drank from my cup and turned out to be completely unheard of. “When the British media reported this, they talked as if there was an international scandal.”
Pressure on the Prime Minister for fox hunting
In 2017, shortly before the greyhound hunting ban came into force in the mid-2000s, it was learned that Prince Charles wrote a letter to then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, requesting that this decision be reversed.
The truth is that III. Although Charles has a reputation as an environmentalist, he is passionate about this ancient pastime of the British aristocracy. He even admitted privately in 2002: “If the Labor government comes close to banning fox hunting, I will leave the country and spend the rest of my life skiing.”
sleeping at work
This secret of Charles III was also revealed by Prince Harry in his memoirs – he said that he and his brother had repeatedly found his father in his office “asleep among a mountain of plump postal envelopes.”
“Many times we found him sleeping with his face on his desk. We shook him by the shoulder and he woke up grunting – a piece of paper stuck to his forehead,” Prince Harry wrote ironically in his book.
Headstand – liberation from pain
Another sudden revelation from Harry’s book “The Substitute” concerns what would happen if one of the doors to the royal residence suddenly opened. Speaking about life at Balmoral Castle, the prince wrote that his father could stand on his head in his underwear. “These exercises, prescribed by a physiotherapist, were the only effective solution to my father’s constant neck and back pain,” Harry said.
According to the prince, the pain is a result of injuries his father frequently received while playing polo.
Adultery
The affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles, which the current king had during his marriage to Princess Diana, soon ceased to be a skeleton in the closet and became an open secret. The extramarital affair of the heir to the throne became known in 1992 with the publication in England of journalist Andrew Morton’s scandalous book “Diana: Her True Story.” After that, Prince Charles and Princess Diana officially announced their separation – they divorced in 1996.
It was later revealed that Charles, who met Camilla in 1970 and fell in love with her, but could not marry her, restarted his romantic relationship with his lover in 1986. In the documentary Charles: In His Own Words, released this year, the monarch admitted that he began dating Camilla during his marriage to Diana.
loneliness of children
In 1949, when Prince Charles was just one year old, his father Philip received a commission in the Royal Navy and went to a base in Malta. His mother, then Princess Elizabeth, joined her husband and the child remained in the care of his grandparents at the royal residence at Sandringham. Since then, Prince Charles was doomed to grow up without parental warmth: soon, in 1952, his mother ascended to the royal throne and devoted herself to fulfilling her duty to the people (expressed in endless visits and trips) and to her father. She raised a child who was naturally sensitive and shy with seriousness and tried to develop his character. Prince Philip gave his firstborn a cricket bat for his first (!) birthday and declared that he should grow up to be a “real man”.
King III. Remains of Richard’s nephews
Since we are talking about “skeletons” in the royal closet, it is worth noting that there are actually two real skeletons in the history of the British monarchy – the truth is shrouded in mystery, and moreover, children. In the 17th century, King II. During Charles’ reign, children’s remains were found in a box under the stairs in the Tower Tower. Because they were wrapped in velvet, the bones belonged to King IV. It was assumed to belong to the nephews of King Richard III, Edward’s sons. After their father’s death, their uncle imprisoned the princes in the Tower and subsequently declared himself the sole legitimate heir to the throne. It is believed that the children were killed.
The found remains were placed in an urn and sent to the royal burial ground in Westminster Abbey. Since the bones were not examined for many years, III. It is not known for certain whether it belonged to Richard’s nephews. Queen Elizabeth II Elizabeth categorically opposed the study, but Charles III does not object to the study. So it is quite possible that the secret of the “princes of the Tower” will be revealed soon.