Prince Charles, king at last?
The eldest son of Queen Elizabeth would ascend the throne in just six months if his mother steps down on her next birthday as the royal biographer predicts.
“I still firmly believe when the Queen becomes 95, that she will step down,” Robert Jobson told True Royalty TV, the Daily Mail reported.
Elizabeth marks another year on April 21. She was all of 27 when she was crowned Feb. 6, 1952, on the death of her father, King George VI. Charles turns 72 in two weeks, on Nov. 14.
Newsweek royal reporter Jack Royston agreed a royal shakeup is coming.
“I think she won’t want to, but realistically she will get to a point where she has handed over everything to Charles and then how do you look your son in the eye and tell him he is not going to be king?”
Jobson also weighed in on two other family members — Prince Harry and Prince Andrew — and he wasn’t kind to either.
The palace watcher described Harry’s comments about his subconscious racial bias as “bare-faced hypocrisy.”
“I remember him making racial slurs about an Asian officer which was filmed by himself and distributed by his friends and he had to apologize for making racial comments,” Jobson said. “I find Harry telling everyone else that they are structurally racist hypocritical.”
As for Andrew, Jobson doubts the queen’s third child will return to royal duties, after he ducked from public sight following revelations about his entanglement with late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
“Can he come back from this? No. No way can he come back from this,” Jobson said. “He has to be cleared by the FBI. If he goes over there, he opens himself to a large can of worms. Whatever he was doing at the parties was unsavory.”