“I could sometimes make her laugh, she was always very jolly.” “I remember we used to have lots of laughs,” he says. He notes that his mother was very busy when he was young, but she had a great sense of humor. “I do have very happy memories of childhood,” he says, over home video footage of him playing as an infant. Though previous biographers have noted that the king had a difficult childhood, Charles focuses on the positives. The treatment ultimately challenges plenty of the conventional wisdom about Charles and his personality. Near the end, the documentary includes a photograph of Charles holding Princess Charlotte as a toddler, and another image of the king sitting with a young Prince George. The new BBC documentary Charles R: The Making of a Monarch, narrated by the king himself, uses never-before-seen archival footage and photographs to paint a picture of his seven decades so far, beginning with his earliest days and progressing all the way to his role as a father and a grandfather. On Sunday night, King Charles III got the opportunity to tell his life story in his own words.
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