Who was Prince Charles best friend?

The Rt Hon Sir Nicholas Soames
A former Tory MP and a grandson of Winston Churchill, 'Fatty' Soames met Charles when they were 12, and was his equerry in the 1970s. Charles, in turn, was his best man in 1981.

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Who was King Charles best friend?

The grandson of Sir Winston Churchill, Lord Nicholas Soames has been one of Charles's closest confidantes for decades. The pair got to know each other in 1970 when Soames was appointed equerry to Charles, a position he held for two years.

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Who was the love of Prince Charles life?

King Charles and Queen Camilla's love story has been anything but conventional. Despite marrying Diana Spencer, Charles never got over his former girlfriend—and against all odds, they got their happy ending 35 years after they first met.

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Who is the guy always with King Charles?

Major Johnny Thompson, of the 5th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland, is King Charles III's equerry. His job as the King's equerry makes him responsible for the detailed planning and execution of his daily programmes.

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Who is Harry closest to in royal family?

Princess Eugenie

The royal cousins have always been close from a young age with only six years between them.

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Is Princess Eugenie still friends with Prince Harry?

Princess Eugenie is so close with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle she's pretty much moving in with them.

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Has Harry fallen out with Eugenie?

Prince Harry won't fall out with Beatrice and Eugenie, despite Piers Morgan friendship. Harry's cousins Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice were spotted meeting with Piers Morgan, who one of the Prince's biggest and most outspoken critics.

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Does King Charles like his sons?

William has also publicly expressed love for his father, saying at the Coronation Concert that he is "so proud" of Charles. King Charles has been there for some of the biggest events in the lives of his sons and has shared loving embraces, glances, and laughs with them through the years.

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Who is King Charles closest sibling?

King Charles and his younger sister, the Princess Royal, are only two years apart and have shared a close bond from an early age.
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Who was the guy in the kilt at the Queen's funeral?

Major Jonathan Thompson of the 5th Battalion Royal Regiment of Scotland was once the Queen's most senior bodyguard.

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Why didn t Charles marry Camilla instead of Diana?

Answer: The big reason Prince Charles and Camilla Shand, as she was then known, didn't get married in the early 1970s: He never asked her. And there are probably a number of reasons for that. In his early 20s, like many other young men, Charles simply wasn't ready for marriage.

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Why wasn t Camilla suitable for Charles?

However, the royal family wasn't interested in having Camilla as its princess. For one thing, she was perceived as an “experienced” woman, which was a nonstarter for the royal family back then in terms of a suitable spouse for Prince Charles.

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Did Camilla attend Diana's funeral?

Camilla may have been at Diana's wedding but she was not welcome at her funeral, which was watched by an estimated 2.5 billion people around the world. Still, to many her absence echoed around the ancient hall. The Queen made it clear to Charles that he could not take his paramour to the service.

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Who are Camilla's closest friends?

Annabel Elliot

Little wonder: she is Camilla's sister and closest confidante. Her husband, Simon, a Dorset landowner, was also very much in the fold until his tragic passing earlier this year. Annabel Elliot was by Her Majesty's side at the coronation.

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Who was the woman that hugged King Charles?

Former Spice Girl Geri Horner gave King Charles III a hug, a kiss and an encouraging pep talk during a Prince's Trust event on Tuesday (16 May).

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Did Prince Charles love someone else?

In hindsight, the marriage of Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer seems a stark lesson in “coulda woulda shoulda,” beginning with the fact that Charles' true love had always been Camilla Parker Bowles, his then-ex-girlfriend and current wife.

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Why isn t Princess Anne in line for the throne?

Princess Anne is the Queen's second-born child, but she's below her two younger brothers in the line of succession because, as with Lady Louise above her, the 2013 Succession of the Crown Act doesn't apply retroactively.

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Does King Charles love his grandchildren?

A royally good grandpa! King Charles III — who ascended the throne in September 2022 following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II — has been a doting grandfather ever since Prince William and Princess Kate started expanding their family.

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Does Camilla have her own children?

While Camilla's kids, Tom Parker Bowles and Laura Lopes, have yet to reveal if they're going or not, you can bet they'll still support their mother no matter what. Camilla shares her children with her ex-husband, Andrew Parker Bowles, whom she was married to from 1973 to 1995.

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Who is the sister William and Harry chose to ignore?

Hello, fellow royal fans, are you aware that Prince Harry and Prince William have a rarely mentioned and almost entirely under-the-radar sister named Laura Lopes?

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What do William and Harry call their dad?

' The term 'pa' has, it's thought, always been used by both Prince William and Prince Harry to address their father - even during their childhood.

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Who was Diana's hidden daughter?

Sarah Spencer is the name of the alleged hidden daughter of Princess Diana of Wales and the now King of England, King Charles III. The theory signals that she would have been born before William and Harry and has had to live in the low profile to prevent suspicions of her existence.

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What did Harry say to Eugenie?

As he walked into the Abbey, Harry said to Jack and Eugenie: 'Wow, amazing look at the bump!' , using his hands to indicate to a heavily-pregnant Eugenie's tummy. 'I know', her husband Jack replied, smiling as he walked towards his seat. Prince Harry to his cousin Princess Eugenie: 'Look at the bump!

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Who put up Harry and Meghan?

Misha Nonoo, a fashion designer and close friend of Markle's, was widely thought to have been the matchmaker (Nonoo had been married to Harry's close friend Alexander Gilkes).

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Is Princess Beatrice close to Harry and Meghan?

Despite relations appearing to have cooled between Beatrice and the Sussexes, there was a subtle hint that the two women remain close in their bombshell Netflix series. In the series, a photograph was shown showing Prince Harry and Meghan enjoying a cup of tea in the late Queen's Wendy House.

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