Fit for a King: Prince Charles's christening sponsors, 15 December 1948
2nd December 2018
Born just three-and-a-half years after VE Day 1945, HRH Prince Charles Philip Arthur George of Edinburgh was very much a post-war baby. Even his christening, on 15 December 1948, was a reminder of the impact of the war. It could not take place in the Private Chapel at Buckingham Palace, where his mother had been baptised, because it had not yet recovered from wartime bombing. The beautiful…