Russell Myers looks back at the life of King Charles
Pod Save The King
Reach Podcasts
3.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hold save the king! |
| 0:03.2 | the king! |
| 0:04.0 | Her royal highness is the proud and happy mother of a prince. |
| 0:11.0 | The salute is fired and in the monarch's home lies the infant boy who will one day be king. |
| 0:17.0 | I too now solemnly pledge myself. |
| 0:21.0 | Throughout the remaining time God grants me to uphold the |
| 0:26.2 | constitutional principles at the heart of our nation. I shall endeavor to serve you with loyalty, respect, and love as I have throughout my life. It has been announced officially from Bucky in Paris during the past hour that her |
| 0:51.5 | Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth Duchess of Edinburgh was safely delivered |
| 0:55.8 | of a prince at 9.14 p.m. today and that her Royal Highness and her son are both doing well. |
| 1:04.0 | Well, Charles growing up in the post-war era of Britain was a completely different situation to his children and his grandchildren |
| 1:12.0 | because Britain was obviously coming out of |
| 1:14.4 | the emergence of a very dark period of war and certainly his relationships with |
| 1:20.9 | his family were very very different to the relationships |
| 1:23.2 | that he has with his own children and grandchildren now I mean we talk about a |
| 1:27.0 | British stiff upper lip and that certainly was archetypal of a of a war era and Charles has really tried to break down the barriers of that with |
| 1:36.3 | his family and to create a different feeling, certainly with the younger members. Prince Charles's relationship with his own father, Prince Philip, was pretty strained in those early years, |
| 1:55.0 | and certainly the Duke of Edinburgh didn't suffer fools. |
| 1:58.0 | I think we've all come to know what sort of character he was, and Charles had a difficult relationship with him, certainly when he was and Charles had a difficult relationship with him. |
| 2:04.1 | Certainly when he was sent to boarding school in Scotland, |
| 2:06.5 | he compared Gordonston to more like a camp that he didn't want to be at and |
| 2:11.5 | he really didn't find his feet as a person |
| 2:14.8 | until his later teenage years. |
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