"Many years later on a visit to Washington with Camilla, he was still laughing about Nixon's attempt at matchmaking."ħ.
And, according to Sally Bedell Smith's 2017 biography Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life, "The president arranged to have Tricia seated next to Charles at every occasion, which annoyed him."Įven though he didn't hit it off with the First Daughter (Bedell Smith says "he would describe her, ungenerously, as 'artificial and plastic'"), Charles was still bemused by the president's endeavors. They were feted as royal dignitaries, taken to various museums and D.C.-area sites, and given rooms in the White House (Charles slept in the Lincoln Bedroom). Charles and his sister, Princess Anne, were 21 and 19 at the time when they took an unofficial trip to Washington, D.C. But the summer before, her father was trying to play matchmaker with the future king of England. In 1971, President Nixon's eldest daughter, Tricia, had the first outdoor White House wedding in the Rose Garden. And to some, Charles Stuart-best known as Bonnie Prince Charlie and for the Jacobite rebellion in Scotland that attempted to put him on the throne-was called Charles III.Īccording to the BBC, Charles has considered going with his third middle name and reigning as George VII, though Charles’s camp denied this, saying "No decision has been made and it will be made at the time"-meaning, after the queen’s death.ĭavid Cairns/Daily Express/Hulton Archive, Getty Images He was generally beloved, but was known as a philanderer who acknowledged at least a dozen illegitimate children.
Charles I was executed for treason and the monarchy was briefly abolished because of his actions his son, Charles II, spent time in exile until the monarchy was restored 11 years later. And though the prince has been the most famous Charles in the UK for seven decades, the previous two King Charleses did not go down well in British history. Many monarchs choose a regnal name (as popes do) that is different than their birth name, such as Charles's grandfather George VI, who had been christened Albert Frederick Arthur George and went by Bertie for most of his life.
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