The Queen Mother shares a joke with her grandson Prince Charles, known as the Duke of Rothesay in Scotland, during the unveiling of an Aberdeen Angus sculpture at the Alford Transport Museum.   *The bull sculpture, created by artist David Annand, is a tribute to the generations of stockmen who established the breed. :PA:King Charles lllThe Queen Mother shares a joke with her grandson Prince Charles, known as the Duke of Rothesay in Scotland, during the unveiling of an Aberdeen Angus sculpture at the Alford Transport Museum.   *The bull sculpture, created by artist David Annand, is a tribute to the generations of stockmen who established the breed. :PA:King Charles lll
The Queen Mother shares a joke with her grandson Prince Charles, known as the Duke of Rothesay in Scotland, during the unveiling of an Aberdeen Angus sculpture at the Alford Transport Museum. *The bull sculpture, created by artist David Annand, is a tribute to the generations of stockmen who established the breed. :PA:King Charles lll

In Pictures: Kings Charles lll - Ahead of the Coronation a look back in pictures at the life of the King

The eldest son of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the King was born at Buckingham Palace at 9.14pm on 14 November 1948.

The young Prince's mother was proclaimed Queen Elizabeth II at the age of 25, when her father, King George VI, died aged 56 on 6 February 1952. On The Queen's accession to the throne, Prince Charles - as the Sovereign's eldest son - became heir apparent at the age of three