Passing on the crown. 👑 See King Charles III's sweetest moments with his late mother, Queen Elizabeth II — including how he paid tribute to Her Majesty on his coronation day:
Scroll below to revisit Elizabeth and Charles’ sweetest mother-son memories together:Elizabeth and Philip, who wed in 1947, welcomed their first child one year later. Their son was christened Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor.Charles and his sister, the Princess Royal, joined their mother on the Buckingham Palace balcony to celebrate her coronation as queen.Elizabeth declared her firstborn the Prince of Wales using the ancestral girdle, sword, coronet, ring, rod and kingly mantle.
“I, Charles, Prince of Wales, do become your liege man of life and limb and of earthly worship and faith and truth I will bear unto thee to live and die against all manner of folks,” he proclaimed in his speech.The former regent looked on with pride after Charles’ royal wedding to Diana when she and Philip joined the then-newlyweds on the palace balcony.Charles joined his parents — and aunt Princess Margaret, who died in 2002 — at the 50th anniversary VE Day Celebrations.
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