Charles III
King Charles III, formerly known as Prince Charles, was the king of the United Kingdom who succeeded his mother Elizabeth II in the 2020s. (AUDIO: Black and White [+]Loading...["Black and White (audio story)"], A Death in the Family [+]Loading...["A Death in the Family (audio story)"], PROSE: The Platinum Sceptre [+]Loading...["The Platinum Sceptre (short story)"]) Charles reigned with his Queen, Camilla, and was succeeded by William V. (PROSE: Revenge of the Judoon [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Judoon (novel)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
As Prince[[edit] | [edit source]]
Early life[[edit] | [edit source]]
Charles was the Queen's eldest son. Charles Windsor Griffiths was named after him. (PROSE: Attack of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Attack of the Cybermen (novelisation)"])
In 1953, he appeared on the balcony of Buckingham Palace and waved to the crowds after the coronation of his mother, Elizabeth II. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern [+]Loading...["The Idiot's Lantern (TV story)"])
Jones suggested that a UNIT soldier would kick "the Prince of Wales, old Carlo", up his "royal britches" were he so ordered by his officer. (TV: The Green Death [+]Loading...["The Green Death (TV story)"])
Marriage to Diana[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 1981, (TV: The Lodger [+]Loading...["The Lodger (TV story)"], PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...{"writer":"Unknown","1":"Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"}) he married Princess Diana. (PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun [+]Loading...["Prisoners of the Sun (short story)"]) Melanie Bush believed them to be a strong couple. (AUDIO: Spaceport Fear [+]Loading...["Spaceport Fear (audio story)"])
He was photographed during his wedding to Diana. This picture was later altered by the Monks during the 2017 Monk invasion. (TV: The Lie of the Land [+]Loading...["The Lie of the Land (TV story)"])
During the Martian Invasion on 6 May 1997, the Prince of Wales and his sons were on the royal jet on course to London when the Martian ship entered the atmosphere, diverting to Madrid. (PROSE: The Dying Days [+]Loading...["The Dying Days (novel)"])
In the late 1990s, Princess Diana died in a car crash. (PROSE: This Town Will Never Let Us Go [+]Loading...["This Town Will Never Let Us Go (novel)"]) This was a tragedy which affected so many people, (PROSE: Father Time [+]Loading...["Father Time (novel)"]) including Elton John (PROSE: That Time I Nearly Destroyed the World Whilst Looking for a Dress [+]Loading...["That Time I Nearly Destroyed the World Whilst Looking for a Dress (short story)"]) and Sixth Doctor companion Evelyn Smythe, who dearly wished to go back to save her. (PROSE: Instruments of Darkness [+]Loading...["Instruments of Darkness (novel)"])
With Camilla[[edit] | [edit source]]
Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"]) were popular items of gossip in 2005. (AUDIO: One Rule [+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"])
In 2006, Prince Charles officially opened the "House of History" exhibition in the Old Dining Room of Torchwood House. (PROSE: Visiting [+]Loading...["Visiting (feature)"])
By 2010, he had married Camilla. In that year, Clyde Langer and Rani Chandra faced two Automatons who were looking for the estranged crown prince of their homeworld. Clyde jokingly offered them to take Prince Charles and Camilla as a replacement. (TV: The Empty Planet [+]Loading...["The Empty Planet (TV story)"])
When the Tenth Doctor found that Edward VII had disappeared along with Balmoral Castle in 1902, he warned that the future of the royal family, along with the rest of history, was threatened. Saying that, along with the rest of his successors, there would be no Charles III. (PROSE: Revenge of the Judoon [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Judoon (novel)"])
As King[[edit] | [edit source]]
As Rani Chandra explained, in the same way Gavin was the son and the heir to his father, Prince Charles was the son and the heir to the Queen. (TV:The Empty Planet [+]Loading...["The Empty Planet (TV story)"])
Elizabeth II assumed in 1977 that Charles would be King by 2022, before learning, to her amazement, that she would be celebrating her seventieth year on the throne in that year. (PROSE: The Platinum Sceptre [+]Loading...["The Platinum Sceptre (short story)"]) However, according to another account, the British Army had a group called the King's New Delta Squadron by 2020. (AUDIO: Black and White [+]Loading...["Black and White (audio story)"])
A Newsround video about general elections mentioned that the Prime Minister had a weekly meeting with the King "just to keep him up to date". This was illustrated by an image of the King, with the presenter remarking "No pressure". (GAME: Wonder Chase [+]Loading...{"ed":"Larry the Cat Election Update!","1":"Wonder Chase (video game)"})
Upon seeing the Council House of Kirith, the Seventh Doctor wondered what King Charles would have to say about its blend of architectural styles. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Apocalypse [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Apocalypse (novel)"])
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
Charles III was immediately succeeded by King William V. (PROSE: Revenge of the Judoon [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Judoon (novel)"])
Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]
In an alternate timeline briefly created by Jamie McCrimmon in which the Glorious Revolution of 1688 was a failure, the name Charles III was taken earlier by the grandson of James II, Bonnie Prince Charlie, who was the reigning monarch of England and Scotland in 1788. (AUDIO: The Glorious Revolution [+]Loading...["The Glorious Revolution (audio story)"])
Willy McDuff's universe[[edit] | [edit source]]
In one universe, Jenny Everywhere, in the body of another Jenny, paid for admission to Willy McDuff's "chocolate factory" with plastic notes which featured the face of the current King of England, which she noted was the same as in her home dimension. (PROSE: A World of Pure Unimagination [+]Loading...["A World of Pure Unimagination (short story)"])
Jenny Everywhere's home dimension[[edit] | [edit source]]
After seeing the current King of England's face on a plastic note in one universe, Jenny Everywhere, in the body of another Jenny, noted that it was the same as the current King in her home dimension. (PROSE: A World of Pure Unimagination [+]Loading...["A World of Pure Unimagination (short story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- In the real world, King Charles is the great great grandson of King Edward VII, firstborn son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, the elder brother of Princess Anne, Prince Andrew, and Prince Edward, and the father of William, Prince of Wales and Prince Harry. He inherited the throne from his mother following her death on 8 September 2022,[1] and was himself the former Prince of Wales from 1958 to 2022. Revenge of the Judoon [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Judoon (novel)"], which mentions the lineal succession of Edward VII to Charles in DWU continuity, was published in 2008, 14 years before the then-Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall became King; Charles inherited the throne three years after the death of the book's author Terrance Dicks.
- Camilla married Charles in 2005, which Yvonne Hartman alludes to in One Rule [+]Loading...["One Rule (audio story)"]. The ceremony took place on 9 April, the day that The Unquiet Dead was first broadcast. The immediate lead-up to the ceremony was also the main cover story of the previous week's issue of Radio Times.
- A King is briefly mentioned by Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in the 1989 TV story Battlefield [+]Loading...["Battlefield (TV story)"] (set a few years in the future, which the story also mentioned in dialogue). A King is likewise also briefly mentioned in the 2005 audio story The Longest Night [+]Loading...["The Longest Night (audio story)"]. As the 2008 novel Revenge of the Judoon establishes Charles as the next monarch after Elizabeth in the DWU, this is apparently what King is being referred to in both of the previous stories. However, in the real world, Charles succeeded Elizabeth as the King eleven years after the death of Lethbridge-Stewart actor Nicholas Courtney, and 33 years after the initial broadcast of Battlefield, a story which first aired a little over halfway through Elizabeth's 70-year reign, and 17 years after the release of The Longest Night, released roughly three-quarters into her reign. Indeed, TV stories like Survivors of the Flux [+]Loading...["Survivors of the Flux (TV story)"] establish Kate Stewart as the head of UNIT before 2017, suggesting that the DWU's Queen Elizabeth outlived Kate's father Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.
- Charles has been portrayed by Christopher Bowen in the telefilm Princess in Love, Alex Jennings in the 2006 film The Queen, Paul Rhys in the 2009 docudrama The Queen, Tim Piggott-Smith in the play King Charles III and its television adaptation, Jon Culshaw in various comedy sketches, Josh O'Connor in the Netflix series The Crown, Harry Enfield in The Windsors, and was voiced by Chris Barrie in the original run of Spitting Image, and Dan Stevens in the animated series The Prince.
- In 2013, Charles and Camilla paid a visit to the TARDIS set at BBC Wales' Roath Lock studios where they met Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman as well as posing with Daleks and Cybermen.[2]
- At the real-life coronation of King Charles III on Saturday 6th May 2023 at Westminster Abbey, Floella Benjamin carried the Sceptre with the Dove, a component of the Crown Jewels.[3]
- Prior to becoming King, it was speculated that Charles may have adopted a different regnal name. In 2005, The Times reported that the then-Prince Charles had privately discussed taking the name George VII upon his accession as King, in order to avoid association with "the bloodiest periods in the monarchy's history" and to honour his grandfather, George VI.[4] Terrance Dicks and Nigel Robinson both correctly predicted in their respective novels, Revenge of the Judoon and Timewyrm: Apocalypse, that Charles would instead choose the name Charles III.
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