Prince Charles suffers from Queen's popularity says royal expert

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Prince Charles, 72, is the longest-serving Prince of Wales and is set to follow the Queen on the throne. However, Stewart Pearce, a vocal coach who worked with Princess Diana between 1995 and 1997, believes there are chances the heir apparent may pass the crown straight to Prince William who is second-in-line to the throne.

Mr Pearce told the Daily Star: “She [The Queen] is preparing to leave, and when she leaves the whole psycho-physical nature of monarchy will change.

“And who knows, constitutional law may be rewritten.

“He [Charles] may not take the throne, he may hand it to his young son.”

If Prince Charles decided to abdicate in favour of Prince William, Parliament would need to intervene.

Experts at UCL’s Constitution Unit explained on the university’s website: “Under common law, Prince Charles will automatically become King the moment the Queen dies.

“Prince William could only become King if Prince Charles chose to abdicate.

“That would require legislation, as happened with the Declaration of Abdication Act 1936.

“The line of succession is regulated by parliament (as in the Act of Succession 1700, and the Succession to the Crown Act 2013); it can be changed only by parliament and cannot be unilaterally altered by the monarch of the day.”

The website went on assessing chances King Charles would abdicate.

It read: “That said, having waited over 60 years as heir apparent, it would be natural for Prince Charles to want to assume the throne and perform the royal duties for which he has spent so long preparing.

“But it would be equally natural if, after reigning for a few years as an increasingly elderly monarch, he chose to invite parliament to hand on the throne to Prince William.”

Prince Charles became Prince of Wales when he was a child, after his grandfather, King George VI died in 1952.

However, his official investiture took place on July 1 1969 at Caernarvon Castle in Wales, when he famously delivered a speech in Welsh.

Prince Charles never signalled an intention to abdicate.

Rather, in 2018 he spoke about how he will change when he becomes head of state of the UK.

The Prince of Wales has been a vocal campaigner for causes close to his heart, such as the environment.

On the year he turned 70, Charles spoke to documentary filmmaker John Bridcut for a BBC film focused on his work, life and legacy.

Asked if he planned to reign as King in the same way he has been operating as Prince of Wales over the past five decades, Charles said: “I’m not that stupid.

“I do realise that it is a separate exercise being sovereign.

“So, of course, I understand entirely how that should operate.

“The idea somehow that I’m going to go on in exactly the same way, if I have to succeed, is complete nonsense.

“Because the two situations are completely different”.

He also said: “You can’t be the same as sovereign if you’re the Prince of Wales or the Heir, it’s a different function”.

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