Who will be king after Prince Charles?
Elizabeth reigned for 70 years, seven more than Queen Victoria, who was Elizabeth’s great-great-grandmother and had the second-longest reign. After the passing of her father, King George VI, Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1952. Charles, Elizabeth’s son, immediately ascended to the throne and is currently King Charles III. Prince William, Duke of Cornwall and…
Elizabeth reigned for 70 years, seven more than Queen Victoria, who was Elizabeth’s great-great-grandmother and had the second-longest reign. After the passing of her father, King George VI, Elizabeth ascended to the throne in 1952.
Charles, Elizabeth’s son, immediately ascended to the throne and is currently King Charles III.
Prince William, Duke of Cornwall and Cambridge, commonly known as William Arthur Philip Louis, was born on June 21, 1982, and is the presumed heir to the British throne. He is the oldest son of King Charles III and Diana, Princess of Wales.
Who will be king after Prince Charles?
Charles, Elizabeth’s 73-year-old oldest son and former Prince of Wales has just been crowned King of England. The Queen Consort is now his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, as desired by Elizabeth at her royal jubilee in February. Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, will take the throne following King Charles III.
William was born in London’s St. Mary’s Hospital and had his education there as well as at Wetherby School, Ludgrove School, and Eton College. He spent some of his gap years in Chile and Belize before finishing a Scottish Master of Arts in geography at the University of St. Andrews. William received his training at the Royal Military Academy in Sandhurst before he joined the Blues and Royals.
William graduated from the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell in April 2008, and in January 2009, he enlisted in the RAF Search and Rescue Force. He served as a full-time pilot for the East Anglian Air Ambulance from July 2015 until July 2017.
The Succession to the Crown Act of 2013 established the present rules for the succession to the British crown. Regardless of the gender of any siblings, the eldest child (or the person next in line to the throne) shall henceforth become monarch, ending the practice where a monarch’s son would take precedence over a daughter in the line of succession. The new rule applies to infants born after Oct. 28, 2011. The Act also repeals the norm that disqualifies an heir from the succession if they marry a Roman Catholic.
