King Charles recalls moment Queen practiced her coronation while he was in the bath
10.09.2022 - 12:01
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King Charles has recalled a sweet memory of his late mother The Queen practicing wearing the crown ahead of her coronation when the young prince was in the bath. The new monarch, 73, joined his siblings in sharing their memories of their mother in which Charles, who referred to his mother’s death as the “moment he’d been dreading”, remembered the sweet story from his childhood.
The Royal Family spoke on the BBC One Special – A Tribute to Her Majesty the Queen. King Charles shared the tale he remembered from the tender age of three in the lead up to his mother’s coronation in 1953.
He said: “I shall never forget, when we were small, having a bath and she came in practicing wearing the crown before the coronation. "All those sorts of marvellous moments, I shall never forget." Seventy years on from his early memory of his mother becoming Queen, Charles has had more training in the preparation to becoming King than any other previous British monarch.
He spoke openly on the documentary about his close relationship with his mother and how he will miss conversations with her. He said: "She was always there, I could talk to her about this, that, or the other.
I think that's always going to be something that will be very difficult not to have." The new King made his first official speech as monarch yesterday addressing the nation and the world from Buckingham Palace’s Blue Drawing Room where he made a few nods to his mother. Pledging his duty to a life of service as the head of the British monarch in a televised speech, the King said: "Throughout her life, Her Majesty The Queen – my beloved Mother – was an inspiration and example to me and to all my family, and we owe her the most heartfelt debt any family can owe to their
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