Prince Charles will celebrate his 72nd birthday this Saturday, knowing that the throne and crown will continue to belong to his elderly mother, Queen Elizabeth (94). If the British heir to the throne still doubted that, he no longer has to do so.
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Because on Thursday it was announced that in June 2022 a four-day celebration will be celebrated on the occasion of the platinum (seventy-year) reign of the Queen. So she does not intend to take a step back in the meantime. There had been cautious speculation about this in the run-up to her 95th birthday, next spring, but Charles will probably have known better by then.
He has been the heir to the throne who has been in the waiting room the longest for years, and if it ever comes from a monarchy, he will be older than any of the British monarchs before him at the time of accession. In recent years and certainly since the corona crisis, he has taken on more and more tasks from his mother. Not just abroad, but also in the UK.
More often on the road
The Prince of Wales sometimes spends entire days behind the camera recording video messages, just to stay visible, while the Queen has only publicly performed outside Windsor Castle three times since March.
Charles, who became infected with the corona virus at the beginning of this year, is going out more often and will even travel to Berlin with his wife Camilla this weekend. At the invitation of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Volkstrauertag will be attended on Sunday. The National Mourning Day in Germany commemorates all war victims in the world.
The British couple is present at the Neue Wache wreath laying and Charles then gives a speech at the general commemoration, the Zentrale Gedenkstunde, in the German Parliament. This time there are fewer guests present than usual.
This year’s Volkstrauertag is dedicated to 75 years of German-British friendship in the post-war years and is a tribute to the Allied commitment to the liberation of the Nazi regime, and to the reconstruction, redemocratization and subsequent reunification of Germany. It is the first time that a member of the British royal family has been present on the national anniversary
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