Does King Charles III have what it takes to wear the crown? | 60 Minutes Australia

the end of queen elizabeth's grandiose reign

does

n't make it any less sad, but three days after her death there are already fewer tears and more applause and heartfelt thanks for her service. 70 years in the profession not only redefines devotion as duty, it also guarantees that Her Majesty will be remembered as one of the most admired women who ever lived. Attention turns to her successor, the Queen's eldest son, now

King

Charles

III. spent most of his life preparing for the powerful role he's inherited, but as Tara Brown reportedly says, many people are already wondering how comfortably the crowd will fit him, so they think you know you're nothing very useful do, and you think you're right there, then you couldn't be of any use.

It is a cruel fate that

Charles

is destined to become

king

. c could not materialize a birthright until the death of the queen, in which I

have

waited almost a lifetime for that promise of lifelong service. I renew to you today a legacy that will forever be marked by sorrow at the death of a beloved monarch but painfully the loss of a dear mother your majesty mom first and foremost the royal family is a family like much will the loss of the queen felt by those who knew her best and loved her the most i mean i think the whole nation is shocked and very sad and not just one nation around the world but as a family member we are all sad i mean it's a big one , Great loss to

have

reached an extraordinary seventh decade as the death of the Queen's monarch heralds a major transition as

Charles

takes

the throne at 73.

The longest-reigning heir in British history but speculation as to who he will be as

king

has plunged Britain into a kind of national identity crisis. I think the overwhelming emotion is certainly sadness for the Queen and I think it's perhaps nervous anticipation of

King

Charles

' reign.

What

does

that mean?

What

's the future like?

What

will the reign of the new

king

look like?

What

will the new

king

look like to many observers? Britain and the Commonwealth are seeing the end of a golden era the death of queen elizabeth may well signal the death of the monarchy itself ongoing scandals and family feuds fuel the new republican debate should we

have

enough respect and love for

australia

and its people, our people, our

australia

n family

have

to say our head of state should be one of us

king

charles

will be polarizing rather than popular being the sovereign to save or destroy the empire when you said you believed

charles

was a risk to the monarchy life was made by the death of diana and also by his own personality and character he is an olympic winger a man who complains constantly but for his supporters d friends

king

charles

fits in perfectly with the times i am delighted that he is

king

will i want him to be

king

of the environment he has supported all sorts of environmental causes for so long before many others took an interest and now is the best opportunity for him to lead this attack at Buc

king

ham Palace, which has not seen a royal birth in 62 years.

HRH the baby is born behind these windows, Queen Elizabeth was just a princess on 14th November 1948 when she and Prince Philip

Charles

were welcomed into the world in beautiful Wendell Chamois their recently purchased country home in Sunnydale princess elizabeth and prince philip spend a happy afternoon with the most famous baby in the world the world he arrived in was not to be sneezed at in a place of exceptional privilege and attention but in three short years his mother became queen with the shock death of her father

king

george vi public service and long separations from her children became an even b An important part of royal life here wishes a very important young gentleman many happy returns of the day on his third birthday .

It's unfortunate mum and dad aren't here to share it with him, but

what

a party they'll

have

when they get it back was a childhood prince

charles

would later describe as painful because of his loneliness, a pain which only got worse when he was sent to his father's old boarding school at gordenstein in scotland which

charles

compared to a german concentration camp it called colditz in kilts alongside prince

charles

johnny stonebrow was a student there for four years you mean , it suited prince

charles

well, many people

have

said it probably wasn't the ideal school to send the young prince to and i tend to agree and i

have

quite a lot of strong memories of the prince who went alone, he wasn't a very social person anyway and i think he missed home and i think he was homesick and i think he was isolated, yeah cement In isolation, whether at mealtimes or on the playground, schoolmates avoided the prince lest they themselves become a target for the bullies, who clearly enjoyed targeting a young

king

.

I actually saw a specific incident where he was attacked playing rugby scrums and scrums are rough places anyway but I could see them yan

king

his ears for example and he got hit but the interesting thing is and it left even then made a strong impression on me that he was very stoic and never complained he didn't whine, he didn't cry, he didn't do anything that other people would

have

done under the circumstances, he just dealt with it, he did himself resisted, absolutely not, no, he wasn't that kind of person, he was quite a gentle soul and when you got to know him a bit better actually a remarkably nice person and he certainly didn't resist and you saw that as a sign of strength at the time or seen weakness that's a very interesting question i think i saw it as a sign of strength but it also made him vulnerable and sometimes you wished he could for retaliating a little more instead of being so stoic but that's not his nature in

australia

the teenage prince felt better understood when he was sent to geelong high school's exclusive timber high school for two semesters. years later he fondly recalled his time there as the beginning of his love affair with

australia

part of my own education took place here in

australia

, honestly it was by far the best part while i was here i got the pommy bits knocked off me like splinters from an old block when he came back after he was in

australia

you know he did remarkably well and he ended up head boy from gordonston and then went to cambridge so i think in a way he got that

Australia

n experience really helped and he found himself in

Australia

.

It seems

Australia

helped the young prince find his sense of humor and the confidence to share it even in the classroom, but I do remember hearing about a specific incident when the prince was enjoying the silly show and he used to imitate it you suddenly

have

this voice from the back of the class saying

what

time it is, echoes, and then the answer was, I don't know, eight o'clock. o'clock and of course that would make us all laugh and that was something he used to do. A man of humor and deep introspection. I think I

have

a pretty big one here, it's really, really big.

A conservationist with extravagant taste. A philanthropist who might as well be a tyrant How will the Prince of Contradictions fare as

king

for unauthorized biographer Tom Bower? This ultimate changing of the guard will mark a sea change in

Charles

for a man who has been waiting in the wings for so long. How easy or difficult do you think that is? The transition from prince to

king

will be an enormous challenge for him. I think he will rise to the challenge because he has been preparing for it for 70 years. This was his moment. This is the moment he can prove himself.

If there's going to be the

Charles

of history he wants to keep in all of our history books forever, he's determined to succeed. He had to waste a long time on

King

destined to follow in his mother's footsteps Even as a young man

Charles

showed a similar sense of duty in a moving ceremony

Charles

was sworn in as Prince of Wales by the Queen at 20 A man for life and limb and the earthly worship he then impressed and surprised many by addressing the crowd in welsh, having learned the language for just 6 weeks when he took up the role of prince of wales,

charles

undertook to serve as his second cousin, lord Ivor Mountbatten says

Charles

has been trying to fulfill his whole life.

You know how much he felt the responsibility of his role s the Prince of Wales and um all his life I think when you know you're going to take the mantle of royalty you know you're a little bit different, so he was very aware of the fact that he was going to be

king

and and and took his responsibility very seriously in doing so iva thinks

charles

has created an incomplete self-image he seems distant but as i know him he most certainly isn't and in a family environment, everyone be

have

s very differently from

what

is perceived in public You think the difference is between the public person and the private person.

I suppose warmth sometimes on TV you can't appreciate a person's warmth but he's an extremely caring guy

Charles

has also earned a reputation for being eccentric and aloof to author tom bower who wrote the unauthorized biography of the rebel prince he is a man who is terribly self-indulgent his eating habits his travel habits his extravagance his unwillingness to really understand that he looks slightly ridiculous at times his commitment to complementary medicine, where he believed cancer could be cured by coffee enemas, was bizarre , and an admission he speaks to his beloved plants had him title the mad prince

Charles

skillfully poked fun at just the other day I was inquiring with a whole bed of um old-fashioned roses forced to my insane babble listening to the meaning of the universe as i crossed my legs in the lotus itz sat on the gravel path before them, a more serious passion was his charity work through the trust of the Prince.

How do u bring hope and and and some kind of inspiration to people who so often live in conditions and circumstances where there seems to be no no Hope Patrol He has worked tirelessly to create jobs and a future for the underprivileged and sick, as testified by his wife Camilla. He feels it all inside so he gets th He's quite impatient he wants things done by yesterday like I guess anyone who works for him will tell you but umm that's how he gets things done , he's driven by that passion in him to really help, to really help him, he genuinely wants to say he'd love to save the world, but his remarkable effort hasn't been without controversy.

The issue with his charities has caused much controversy as funding these charities has always meant raising money from very controversial characters who were often criminals but very wealthy and to which he would sell access to get the money to raise his to fund charities so with everything that

Charles

has done on the one hand good there was also a negative and a bad after one of my rare opportunities to shake things up to throw a proverbial royal brick through the invitation mirror glass full of

Charles

' pompous professional pride Willingness to use his position of power to influence and pressure politicians has done much According to royal historian Anna Whitelock, there is certainly a backstory with

Charles

where the so-called Spider Letters were published, as due to his rather spidery handc hrift wrote to ministers and lobbied for certain causes, and so over the years there was some backlash because of the fact that he appeared to be meddling in politics in a way he really shouldn't, which said there was no constitutional position as Prince of Wales formally barring him from doing

what

some people

have

accused you of.

You really don't say interference, but I always wonder

what

interference is. I mean, I've always found it motivating, but I've always been fascinated by whether it's meddling, worrying about inner cities like I did 40 years ago,

what

happened or not,

what

's happening there, the conditions that people are in lived if that is meddling i am very proud of it but as monarch and modeled on the extremely discreet queen elizabeth the new role b the law brings new restrictions. Is it difficult for him to