>> he wanted attention, he wanted love. >> he was timid and what prince philip wanted was a brave son. tabloids loved prince charles, the playboy. >> charles seems to take a particular shine to diana. >> first fell in love. [laughter] >> under media glare, charles public image is often ques questioned. >> also in all of this, there was parker built. >> she had a suspicion charles was seeing camilla, charles didn't really love her. >> the marriage was spiraling down. >> the queen want to charles and diana to divorce. >> you seemed difficulties preparing to be king. >> he has to be the idea landmark moments of his life are also landmark moments for the nation. >> i think charles will be an extremely good king. >> he cares so much, he cares about his subject, he cares about his country. >> feel want to make the family more relevant to younger people. >> the promise of lifelong service, i knew too old today. ♪ >> buckingham palace royal highness elizabeth, duchess safely delivered of prince at 19:14 p.m. >> and air born, prince charles philip george came into the world november 141948. >> there's public jubilation at the news, it's a voice. [cheering] >> the man the world would come to know simply as charles was third in line to the british throne. >> buckingham palace and all britain, the center of attention is prince charles philip george of edinboro. >> 1948, there was still a lot of post world russian, unemployment and i think when charles was on, it was a happy event because it was difficult times. ♪ >> i think the nation sometimes is held together by the royal family and gives focus for what they feel is british and what represents them and their va values. >> while millions celebrated the birth of their future king, one person was noticeably absent from a historical moment -- his father, philip, the duke of edinboro. the first time that plays the game of squash while princess elizabeth underwent c-section. when asked what the future king of england look like, philip responded, plum pudding. from the moment born, charles is in the spotlight. >> prince charles approaches his first birthday, awaiting him the best to be a royal favorite. >> with a life you could imagine but soon shared the lights when his younger sister princess anne was born in the summer of 1950. a picture-perfect childhood filled with trips to the family's estate in scotland and norfolk but that would all change early 1952 when princess elizabeth, king george the sixth became seriously ill. >> it became apparent the king might not live that much longer. there's no question the princess elizabeth would be going. >> was royal hunting the news of the king's death reached his daughter. when she returned, it was to return to learn she was now the queen. >> her son prince charles so he was just a toddler was now air to the throne. >> walking behind the gun carriage, the duke of edinboro followed by the clean, the queen mother and princess margaret. grief shared by the nation. >> a little more than a year later, the streets of london refilled yet again. ♪ this time with joy queen elizabeth's coronation. >> by the time prince charles was three years old he was watching his mother crowned queen. >> the first of the coronation right which caused prince charles to turn to his grandmother in bewilderment. >> you don't necessarily understand exactly what it means to be born into the royal fa family. for charles, i think it would be quite a big event, old enough about age to realize things are going on around you but not necessarily old enough to fully understand. >> he himself has sweet mem memories, prince charles touched his hair and then wrapped his hand smell the cream he had for the first time put on his hair and he left the smell. he remembers his mother coming back to buckingham palace after the ceremony wearing a crown going to the nursery and she bent down and kissed him. >> the day would have a lasting impact not just on england but charles childhood. the mother loved and adored wasn't just his anymore. she belongs to the british people. ♪ >> the relationship between prince charles and his mother was a complicated one mostly because of her sense of duty and the role she had. >> the clean see charles she was young in the morning and then see him if she was able to in the evening. the fact that prince charles himself felt isolated as a chil- >> she was often a way for him from mom. so that meant as charles was right from the beginning likely to be seen the royal family and country and duty pulling his mother away from him. >> as a sensitive child he found but difficult. >> he was surrounded by nannies, his mother's laying and waiting. >> when it came to his relationship with his father was philip, the pair never saw eye to eye. >> he and his father had different views and attitudes. >> he was very shy and thoughtful as a child. he was timid and what prince philip wanted was a big brave son. >> somebody who maybe wasn't necessarily good at what british people are famous for. >> i think this was prince philip, he wasn't tough enough. >> there was this adorable timid little boy philip was rife with him. the tried to toughen him up in the more he did, the more sensitive charles became. >> needed to be repaired not just to have a good development psychologically, educationally, physically but also a suitable monarch for great britain. ♪ thinkorswim® by td ameritrade is more than a trading platform. it's an entire trading experience. with innovation that lets you customize interfaces, charts and orders to your style of trading. personalized education to expand your perspective. and a dedicated trade desk of expert-level support. that will push you to be even better. and just might change how you trade—forever. because once you experience thinkorswim® by td ameritrade ♪♪♪ there's no going back. ♪ as king charles grew up, his mother is often away for filling her royal duties. seventy parental decisions were left to prince philip who decided charles would be sent to boarding school. he was the first british royal there. >> philip believed this would toughen them up. what it did was create a rift between father and son. >> prince charles away to a school which was prince philip's old-school. >> it's opening day, 310 euros 40 school 50 miles from london and there's more than the usual excitement attending the starting of the new term. the arrival of the royal family with a new boy. >> quite a tough school and completely unsuitable or sensitive young boys like charles. you had to go early morning runs, you had to have cold showers, a good sport. >> born air to the throne, prince charles displays beyond his eight years as he introduces his royal parents. >> as all parents do, print charles just wanted to fit in but being the air to the british throne made it nearly impo impossible. >> it was difficult for him because the boys wanted to be friends were accused of sticking up, sucking up to him the boys who didn't want to be friends bullied him so he was very unhappy. >> after years of attending there, is apparent the school wasn't right for charles. when he was 13, he switched to organist and scotland. it was prince philip's almeida, a tough school that philip credit with building his character. >> i think he wanted maybe the same thing for prince charles, i think the criticisms of the decisions have been maybe it wasn't the right school for prince charles, it was far from home, it meant he wouldn't see them as much. >> to make matters worse, charles was the target of bullies. >> when charles used to play football, they would push his face into the mud try to sit on his head. >> prince charles bad sinus and he snored and the boys decided it would be funny to get a recording of the heir to the throne snoring so they went to the room above and think of the microphone down outside the window and the court charles snoring. one of the house masters found out about it and the recording was confiscated. >> things would get worse for the young royal while on a school stating trip when he was 14 years old. >> prince charles board of ra randy. unfortunately for him it was overheard by a journalist who published it in the newspapers so it was a scandal because her 14-year-old drinking and ordering frank is illegal. as a result the blame was put on his protection, don greene who was fired. one of the problems prince charles was while he was having quite some time as full, is something of a coming out for him, close friend even though he was much older than prince charles. >> despite the loss of his companion, charles carried on. it wasn't only the fact that charles was the future king that set him apart from the other boys but his sensitivity. >> when prince charles went off and had free time, he a copy of shakespeare under his arm and would sit down on the shore and read it. >> through his love of classic literature he found a release and acting. >> charles gave sensitive performance of macbeth playing the title role and the queen and prince philip journeyed up to see it. >> there was a scene where he appeared to be having a terrible dream going that and he was wrapped up in a fur rug rolling about the stage and prince philip started laughing and prince charles said all he could hear was his father laughing. >> when he asked afterwards what the problem was, he was told he was like the goons, a comedy radio show that was cool. it's those episodes, the fact that there was this gap between father and son. >> the incident coupled with the bullying from classmates made charles miserable. later described his time at gordon's been as a prison sentence. >> old-fashioned british idea character building is to be done in these private schools but it's not for everybody and certainly seemed like it wasn't for prince charles. >> the queen mother was distressed and he was so close to her, his grandmother. he said he used to dream runaway to her house in scotland and stay there. i talked to prince charles about cornerstone and in retrospect it's not as bad as he thought it was at the time of his brothers went there and they were perfectly happy. ♪ welcome to fox news live, i am jon scott in new york. president biden in london for 48 hour visit to pay final respects to queen elizabeth. the president and first lady jill biden has of state and other global dignitaries in the british capitol for monday's royal funeral. earlier today in westminster hall of prince william, his brother harry and six cousins led a silent vigil around the casket of their beloved grandmother. closer to home people in puerto rico bracing for potential hurricane. tropical storm fiona threatening to gain strength and don't tend to 20 inches of rain on the island tomorrow afternoon. it could trigger devastating mudslides, floods and power outages. your is some 160 miles south of puerto rico. i am jon scott, back to who is king charles the third next. ♪ >> now the swinging 60s and 18-year-old charles was off to college cambridge while he was starting off geology and anthropology, women were starting to study him. >> i'm going to turn around and look at him, a really good looking boy so i did look. >> tabloids loved prince cha charles, the play boy and he had a string of pretty girlfriends. he had a relationship a girl named anna wallace, a brilliant course woman and he was madly in love with her but she was unsuitable because she was volatile said exactly what she thought. >> he proposed twice to her. both times she turned him down. >> he went out with the actress susan george for a little bit and that caused interest. he did have a relationship with president nixon's daughter but i don't think it was anything serious. >> charles thought richard nixon was trying to promote romance between them. he said i'll keep out of the way so you can feel at home. >> he did perhaps have his reputation as being something of a playboy prince. he was the most bachelor, a man alone and a man with status and people want to be next to him. >> in all of this, there was kamala. >> when camilla and charles met, there's a famous photograph of them standing by talking to each other. >> what everyone believes as they met at a match in the early 1970s camilla began the line her great-grandmother was the mistress of his great-great-grandfather. she was the king's mistress and they did have a passionate affair. >> camilla was just one of those girls everybody wanted to date. she was terrific charles over by her, she thought -- he thought this woman is terrific, i want to be around her more. >> it would have made sense had they married but the difficulty was she was someone who had passed. >> there's a difficult job to him to find a suitable partner. >> any woman he wanted to bring into the royal family had to have a clean slate meaning she couldn't have previously relationships and had to be a virgin which wasn't an easy find. there is something else fueling his dating, advice from his uncle, lord mountbatten. >> was really like a father to prince charles and one of his pieces of advice was don't get married too young, go out with lots of young ladies in an expression called so your wild oats and that was his advice. >> that's what charles did, he continued to date around as he graduated with his bachelors degree from cambridge and joined the military. >> in the early 70s he served in the royal air force and navy and had particular aptitude and interest in flying. earned his wings in record time. >> one woman never left his mind. camilla. >> camilla and charles stated and then prince charles went off on his naval maneuvers so he was removed from her fear of life and camilla doted on this young man called andrew parker, very, very attractive. >> kamala merritt and charles was apparently devastated. >> prince charles was at sea when camilla wrote to him and told him she was engaged in a think his world fell apart, he couldn't believe it. what charles did, he said i'm going to remain friends with her because she's special and he d did. >> the royals gears. 1976 as he left the british air force, he started the prince's trust. >> his business trust continue to provide funds for young entrepreneurs for his inner-city aid project set off at the same time ran into trouble when it found itself competing for funds. the charity was shared by prince charles friend and advisor rod hackney, shut up the prince's mind and the gurus. >> the charity helped multiple use get on their feet. it marked the beginning of his activist career. >> he was one of the very early people to speak about the classics in the ocean and he spoke about the ozone layer and environment, he was amazing. ♪ ♪ 1978 and charles clock was ticking, almost 30 is old and after a decade of dating, he still didn't have a wife. >> he knew it was important to find a wife and eventually have children because the whole nature of a royal family is the line of succession and they have children and here they are his air and so on. >> as his search continued for his future queen, tragedy struck the royal family. >> other people were killed by a bomb planted the lobster plot carrying aboard his lodge. >> prince charles was shattered by the death. >> charles really loved her. his a father, a godfather, a friend someone he could always rely on. >> also the way he died blown up by a bomb dreadful circum circumstances. >> i think he was in a very vulnerable state. >> one person who watched the funeral unfold on tv was lady diana spencer. >> prince charles dated sarah spencer, lady sarah spencer diana's older sister. she is on hay bales and she turned to him and said you look so sad, she said i really felt for you and i think his office woman is amazing, she understands me but didn't at a all. >> diana was young, only 19 but she came from an aristocratic family and her age had its pe perks. she didn't have a past. the perfect prospect for a wife. ♪ once charles asked her out, it was a whirlwind romance. >> there was a do only have been on 12 dates. >> the prince said he felt pressured to settle down. >> prince philip casually said it's about time you got married stop dating all these girls and find yourself a decent wife but he didn't mean you got to marry diana. >> after six months of dating, prince popped the question with the 12 ^-caret two sapphire. diana immediately said yes. >> it's really great. >> why have you come here today? >> to get a glimpse of diana and charles. >> once word got out about the engagement, the media frenzy began over the wedding of the century. ♪ and estimated 750 million people were expected to tune in worldwide to watch them say i do. millions waited in anticipation charles and diana began to feel the weight of their impending marriage. >> here's this beautiful young girl, very young was the heir to the throne and she was so vulnerable, like a cut out fairy princess from an old-fashioned storybook. >> she was 19, he was 32. they had nothing in common. >> behind closed doors, there was someone else on charles mine. diana knew it. >> she have the suspicion charles was seen camilla. she had the suspicion charles didn't truly love her and she thought this might be the wrong move to take but nonetheless she went ahead. >> as her friends put, your face is on the tea towels. >> personality mismatch played out in front of the cameras in unforgettable interview. >> she's been brave enough to take me on. >> when charles was asked if he was in love, she having said absolutely. >> of course. >> you love me. >> two very happy people. >> yes. >> congratulations. >> he said whatever in love means and we now know of course that he wasn't. it is excruciating to watch how awkward they were together. >> diana made this revelation the night before her wedding she felt like a lamb going to slaughter. >> 600,000 lined the streets of london to catch a glimpse of the newlyweds. >> charles said much later he knew even then in his heart it was a mistake but that moment in time, it appeared so beautiful and wonderful and perfect. >> he himself perfect well aware charles had other affections when he spoke of the manager of true minds and the stuff of fairytales and so forth. >> even as diana walked down the aisle, her mind was on the prince's ex-girlfriend. >> she was looking for where camilla was in the congregation. >> by the end of the day charles and diana, husband-and-wife and she was his future queen ♪ ♪ charles was now a married man and he knew his next duty was clear. to provide an air. ♪ june of 1982, diana gave birth to a son who they named william. >> princess diana and her husband prince charles took the tiny bundle home from the hospital and the well-wishers of everyone. >> as their family grew, so did charles jealousy of diana. >> when charles and diana went, it was undoubtedly a pivotal moment for diana because she realized the poll she had nationally and internationally. for charles, he realized people didn't want to come here what he had to say, they wanted is wife to see her. >> if they stopped somewhere where there was a big crowd and diana got out one side of the car and everyone practically be screaming like beatlemania and charles about the other side and there would be a grown. oh no. >> the managers beginning to break down but 1984, the couple was blessed with another baby, the second boy they named harry. >> it's a boy again, princess diana, her second son are doing just fine, princess gave birth to the prince today. >> charles explained when he saw the baby, it's a boy and it's got red hair diana felt something within me died. >> births of william and harry, prince charles had managed to do what was required of him, in some respect, it might take off pressure but in other respects you have two children and the competitions around the marriage and difficulties the couple had have an impact on those two children. >> raising their voice did little to help the fractured relationship. >> 1986, the marriage was spiraling down. charles and diana were not a happy couple anymore. camilla remained a friend and they didn't see a great deal of each other with a talk on the telephone and he started to pour his heart out to her and say this is a disaster. he started to go back toward camilla sort of warm embrace. ♪ every search you make, every click you take, every move you make, every step you take, i'll be watching you. the internet doesn't have to be duckduckgo is a free all in one privacy app with a built in search engine, web browser, one click data clearing and more stop companies like google from watching you, by downloading the app today. duckduckgo: privacy, simplified. ♪ for years the strains on the marriage had only been tabloid news. that was until 1992 when diana agreed to a tell all. >> andrew morton book was a watershed moment because it opened some of the rumors and speculation around the marriage. the revelations in the book were difficult for print charles. the idea of diana having bulimia, problems she psychologically, it made him selfish and uncaring so that for prince charles reputation and understandably very upsetting him. >> a month later it was announced charles and diana were sitting up. >> the prince and princess have decided to separate. >> the same year the british tabloid, the sun released the transcript of a recorded phone call between prince charles and camilla. >> the tape reported to be record of an intimate conversation with his long-standing friend, camilla has the potential to damage his image greatly. >> the tape that revealed charles love camilla. >> the public red explicit call, the affair was now public 1994, charles released his own tell all book. >> charles said he was forced into a loveless marriage by his father, prince philip and he never wanted to marry her. >> prince charles did the book because he wanted to tell his side of the story. >> the 1994 documentary that accompanies the book, he admitted to cheating on princess diana camilla. >> that meant she was married to andrew parker bowles, they had to divorce. also the nation heard confession of adultery by the heir to the throne. >> the royals were separated, charles and diana were still married and tit-for-tat media campaign against each other had begun. >> the will of the whales was a line dumped by the british tabloids because almost every day there was a story about diana and then about charles. >> waging war on using the process, using books, television and their friends. >> every time there was a story, derogatory story about her, she counterattacked with a story that made her look good. >> it all came to a head in 1995 when diana agreed to a bombshell interview with bbc journalist martin bashir. >> panorama was dishonestly obtained by the bbc. >> he forged documents and spread rumors about those close to her and prince charles which made her feel like everyone was watching her. >> you think it was a factor in the breakdown of your marriage? >> there were three of us in the marriage so it was a bit cro crowded. >> according to diana, there were three in the marriage and he had never given camilla up. >> charles reaction to the interview and the royal family was or. i think what really horrified them was she said she didn't think charles wanted the top job so basically saying i don't think charles is the right material to become king. >> 20 million people tuned into the interview but the queen had enough. >> the queen wanted charles and diana to divorce. >> divorce was a total failure for prince charles in his eye. >> said diana didn't want a divorce but a divorce by them was inevitable. >> the tumultuous love story came to an end august 28, 1996 as the divorce was finalized. >> almost a year later to the day, tragedy would strike. thirty-six years old, princess diana was dead, killed in a car crash in paris, france. >> charles, being the emotional sensitive person, he apparently cried. he talked to his mother, the queen and they decided it wasn't a good idea to wake the boys they could wait until the morning. >> must've been terrifyingly shocking especially considering the effect it was bound to have on william and harry. >> september 6, 1997, charles was beside his sons as they walked behind their mother's casket. >> as we know, he believed he might well be blamed for the passage of offense considering the background to it. >> one person who hid from the cameras as the country mourned princess diana diana, camilla. >> shouldn't go out because she talked about it since, she didn't see friends, she literally hid and charles provided food for her and sent a chefs with meals and things and she was a prisoner in her own house. nobody wanted to see her or hear from her. >> after diana's death, charles made a his goal to change the countries perception of camilla. >> the death of diana strangely about the beginning of the rehabilitation of prince charles in the public eye and that's because there was no chance anymore diana would throw more noise at the royal family. >> january 1999, the couple made their first public appearance. >> a forceful statement during and he handled the rehabilitation of camilla extremely well. >> six is later after england had come to terms with charles and camilla as a couple, the pair were married to mike i think camilla gave something to charles probably no other woman has been able to do. i think it's a feeling of security and almost like motherr who loves. ♪ your record label is taking off. but so is your sound engineer. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed instant match instantly delivers quality candidates matching your job description. visit indeed.com/hire at the age of 17 he was still a prince and waited for his day on the throne. september 8, 2022 queen elizabeth died peace any. >> it's my sad duty to inform you her majesty queen elizabeth ii has passed away. in an instant he was king charles iii. and he pledged to serve them. >> i shall endeavor to serve you with loyalty, respect and love as i have throughout my life. >> i think charles will be an extremely good king because he has had experience and seen some of the difficulties of preparing to be king. >> i suspect some of the things he will want to do are looking at more modern issues, and making the monarchy more relevant to the people, particularly young people. >> he cared about the future of the planet and he cares about the people. brian: it must be saturday night. i'm brian kilmeade. and this is "one nation." bill broader is it true vladimir putin is in trouble? said rosenberg has a new book. and judge jeanine. the judge will yell at me about somethin