Sixty-four years ago, Charles Philip Arthur George Windsor was pretending to be the most doomed monarch in British history when he learnt that Andrew, his brother, had been born. On February 19, 1960, the 11-year-old Charles was playing the role of a young Richard III in a Cheam School production of The Last Baron, a play written by one of the staff.
According to the school paper, the young prince’s Richard “conveyed the ambition and bitterness of the twisted hunchback” although the audience sniggered when Charles recited a prayer that included the ominous line “soon I may ascend the throne.”
