Birthday wishes from the Royal Family for the King as Charles turns 76

The royal family has wished the king a happy 76th birthday, with the Prince and Princess of Wales sharing a photo of the relaxed-looking monarch in sunglasses and a bunting during a recent royal tour.

The monarchy’s official social media accounts posted a congratulatory message with a more formal portrait of the king standing in the White Drawing Room of Buckingham Palace.

William and Kate’s report shared an image of Charles in the sun during his recent long trip abroad to Samoa, as he opened The King’s Garden at the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Apia.

The message read: “I wish His Majesty the King a very happy birthday!”

Charles treats his birthday as a normal working day and continues with his duties despite a personally challenging year in which both he and his daughter-in-law Kate were diagnosed with cancer.

The King will open the first two Coronation Food Hubs on the first anniversary of the launch of his Coronation Food Project, designed to bridge the gap between food needs and food waste in Britain amid the cost of living.

He will go to Deptford in South London to formally unveil the first hub, tour the city center with London Mayor Sadiq Khan and attend the surplus food festival organized to celebrate the royal visit, before virtually launching a new hub opens in Merseyside.

The event will be a solo one for Charles, with the Queen, who had hoped to join him, still recovering from a nasty chest infection.

The king walked the red carpet in a black tie on the eve of his birthday and met stars Denzel Washington, Paul Mescal and Pedro Pascal at the glitzy world premiere of Gladiator II.

On Wednesday afternoon he hosted a special celebrity reception at Buckingham Palace to celebrate the British film and television industry, where he and Camilla, who attended part of the event, chatted with a host of famous faces including actors Damian Lewis, Emily Mortimer and Lucien Laviscount, and Gladiator director Sir Ridley Scott.

Gun salutes will be fired in Green Park by The King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery and in the Tower of London by the Honorable Artillery Company as part of the army’s traditional celebrations on the sovereign’s birthday, and bells will be rung at Westminster Abbey, where the king was. crowned in 2023.

Charles, like his late mother Elizabeth II, has two birthdays: his actual birthday on November 14 and his official birthday, which falls on the second Saturday in June.

Since 1748, the monarch’s official birthday has been marked by the parade known as Trooping the Colour, which was usually held on the king or queen’s actual birthday.

Edward VII, who reigned from 1901 to 1910, was born in the month of November.

But officially he celebrated it in May or June, as it was less likely to be cold and drizzly during the outdoor event.

Charles’ grandfather George VI, who was born in December, reintroduced the idea, and the late Queen Elizabeth II continued it, as did the king.

Prince Charles Philip Arthur George was welcomed into the world at Buckingham Palace on November 14, 1948, the first child of the future Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh.

As Prince of Wales, he was the country’s longest-serving heir to the throne, becoming king on September 8, 2022 after the death of his mother.

News of Charles’ cancer, which was not made public in its form, came in February after it was discovered while he was being treated in hospital for an enlarged prostate in January.

He canceled all personal public duties but returned in April and has since traveled to France for D-Day commemorations, organized an upcoming state visit for the Emperor of Japan and recently took a hectic trip to Australia and Samoa with the Queen. , despite still undergoing outpatient cancer treatment.