The death of Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 96 this Thursday, September 8, left England in mourning. The monarch she died in Balmoral, Scotland, accompanied by several relatives who traveled to the place after the doctors who accompanied her expressed “concern” for her health. The news was released by Buckingham Palace shortly after 6:30 p.m. Follow up to the minute all the news on the Observer’s live blog.
In the media frenzy surrounding the queen’s death, much of the attention has turned to her successor, her son Charles, who is currently 73 (he turns 74 in November). EITHER King Charles III He is not the most popular character in the history of the English royal house, nor the most charismatic. His life was shrouded in media coverage and not always for the best reasons, from his checkered marriage to Princess Diana to accusations of adultery with a woman he had loved from a young age, who was not worthy of royalty, who later married another man and divorced. The infamous Camilla, who became his wife in 2005, against all odds. Little by little, the couple seems to have been rising in the esteem index of British subjects.
Known as the “eternal princeCarlos III spent his life on the bench waiting to ascend the throne. If he considers the average life expectancy of a Briton (around 81.65 years; data from 2022), he may have around seven years of reign left. The wait was long and the tasks piled up like books in a dusty library – he himself had said in an interview with VanityFair: “There are so many things to do”.
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Source: Observadora
