On September 8, 2022, at the age of 73, Prince Charles became King Charles III. He has been preparing for the crown all his life. After a long journey, that moment has finally arrived. Charles, the oldest ruler to ever assume the British throne, became king after the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, and the date set for his coronation is Saturday, May 6, 2023 in London’s Westminster Abbey. After an apprenticeship that began as a child, Charles now embodies the modernization of the British monarchy. He was the first unschooled heir at home, the first to earn a college degree, and the first to grow up under the media’s ever-intensifying gaze as deference to royalty waned. And now, he is ready to step out of his mother’s shadow and start his own kingdom.
