

She also encouraged kindness in Charles - including by sharing candy with other children and picking the weakest person first when choosing teammates for games.Ĭharles became heir apparent at the age of three, following the death of his grandfather King George VI and his mother’s accession to the throne when she was 25. At two years old, he would sit on her bed and play with her lipstick tubes, awed by the colors.

15, 1948.Ĭharles was close with his maternal grandmother - the Queen Mother - who encouraged his love of nature and art. The Queen Mother, grandmother of Charles, nurses the child after a ceremony at Buckingham Palace, on Dec.
