Prince Charles Prince Charles was born on 14 of November 1948 and christened Charles Philip Arthur George on 15 of December that year in the Music Room at Buckingham Palace. He was educated at Cheam School and at Gordonstown in Scotland. He spent part of the school years in 1966 as an exchange student at the Geelong Church of England Grammar School, Melbourne, Australia – the first member of the British Royal family to attend overseas Commonwealth school. Between 1967 and1970, the Prince read archaeology and anthropology and for his last two years history at the University of Cambridge. He took an active part in undergraduate life appearing in several college revues and gaining his university colours for polo. He graduated from Cambridge with a BA (Honours) degree in 1970. The Prince took his seat in the House of Lords in the same year. On the 29th of July 1981 the Prince of Wales married Lady Diana Spencer in St Paul’s Cathedral. Their marriage was dissolved on the 28th of August 1996. On the 10th of February 2005 Clarence House announced that the Prince of Wales was to marry Mrs. Camilla Parker Bowles.