King Charles will reportedly break one of the late Queen's traditions when he commemorates his first Remembrance Sunday as monarch next week.
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King Charles’ former butler has told how Kate Middleton was ‘so polite’ and ‘friendly’ to Royal staff behind closed doors. Grant Harrold said the new Princess of Wales was fun and would make jokes with him when he was running errands at Highgrove House, the family residence of King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort.
Grant, who worked for the King for seven years, has lifted the lid on the early days of the Prince and Princess of Wales’ relationship.The pair were just 19 when they crossed paths as students in the same halls of residence at St Andrews University.They became close friends before their relationship blossomed into romance in their second year. Grant, describing their early days, told The Mirror how the lovestruck pair, who now have three children, were 'like any boyfriend and girlfriend'.
He added: "[They weren't] any different to anyone else, it’s mad saying that when you think about who they are, but there wasn’t anything different. “What I liked was that Kate, being a girlfriend and obviously not a member of the family, would be with me and the other staff and she was so polite, friendly, and fun and making jokes.
“I remember there were days I had off where I’d be running an errand or I’d left something up at Highgrove [House] and they were around, so you’d just catch up with them. "It was always fun and it was always nice that I got on so well with them because they’d then ask me to travel the country with them.
“When my phone used to go off and it was William, all my friends would be like that’s so cool, but to me it was normal.That was the relationship I had with them.” Grant said he felt ‘lucky’ to get to know the pair in the way he did. He added: "I think it was really special and not unusual,
.King Charles will reportedly break one of the late Queen's traditions when he commemorates his first Remembrance Sunday as monarch next week.
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crowned sovereign of the United Kingdom, King Charles III will finally get his day in the sun.Following her death last month, Charles, 73, became the new monarch and his own coronation is set for May 6, 2023.The date is also the day that his grandson Archie — the son of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle — will turn 4 years old. Queen Elizabeth was ordained as ruler on June 2, 1953, and her coronation was full of pomp and circumstance.However, Charles’ ceremony is reportedly set to be a scaled back and more modernized celebration.“The king has stripped back a lot of the coronation in recognition that the world has changed in the past 70 years,” a source recently divulged to the Mirror.The three-hour service at Westminster Abbey will be pared down to just 60 minutes.As for guests who earned a coveted spot on the invite list, the amount has been chopped down from 8,000 to 2,000.It is expected that peers will wear formal coronation robes, however, the need for the uniform choices may be modified.Operation Golden Orb, which is the code name for the planning of the coronation, was first speculated to be held on June 3.
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Buckingham Palace has responded to reports that the date of King Charles ' coronation has been confirmed. It has been suggested that Charles will be crowned on June 3 next year in a touching tribute to the Queen, according to Bloomberg.