Unseen photos of King with Prince George and Princess Charlotte

‘Grandpa King is adorable!’ Unseen family photos of Charles with Prince George and Princess Charlotte are released in new BBC documentary (and royal fans are delighted!)

• The unseen photographs appeared on Charles R: The Making of a Monarch 
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Two unseen photographs of King Charles with Prince George and Princess Charlotte have been released in a new BBC documentary about the monarch.

Charles R: The Making of a Monarch, which aired last night, featured the adorable collection of images, thought to be taken in 2016. 

One of the pictures shows the then Prince of Wales pointing to something of interest while sitting next to a young Prince George. 

The duo are sitting at a picnic table, with the little royal holding on to a glass of juice. He wears a navy T-shirt, while his grandfather looks smart in a pinstripe suit and teal tie.

The second image shows a smiling Princess Charlotte, dressed in a sweet blue dress with a matching bow in her hair, being entertained by Charles. He appears to be holding something in his hand as he spends time with his granddaughter.

Two unseen photographs of King Charles with Prince George and Princess Charlotte have been released in a new BBC documentary about the monarch

The adorable photographs were shown over a previous interview with Charles, where he explained how his grandchildren motivate his passion to care for the environment.

‘I mind so much about the future, what we’re going to leave to our children and grandchildren,’ he said. ‘That’s what really gets me going.’

Royal fans were delighted to spot the previously unseen images in the documentary, which charted the King’s journey from prince to monarch.

‘Grandpa King is adorable!,’ wrote one individual on Twitter. ‘It’s very precious,’ they added. 

A second said on Instagram: ‘Look how adorable they are. He is such a wonderful grandpa! So glad they have him around and vice versa.’

Elsewhere, in footage captured when he was just 18, Charles says: ‘I like to think of us more as a family rather than as a firm. I tend to think of my family as very special people.

‘And, in that sense, I’m only beginning to see my parents and the rest of my family as other people, do you know what I mean? That you look upon them as having their own different characteristics.’

He made the candid remarks in Royal Family, the 1969 behind-the-scenes film which has not been broadcast for more than 45 years on the orders of the late Queen. But they featured in the new documentary.

Charles R: The Making of a Monarch, which aired last night, featured the adorable collection of images, thought to be taken in 2016

Reaction: Royal fans were delighted to spot the previously unseen images in the documentary, which charted the King’s journey from prince to monarch

Spanning seven decades, the film featured archived and never-before-seen footage of the King as a young man, displaying an early passion for nature, gardening and animals.

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One intimate sequence showed a Christmas family get together at Windsor Castle, where the teenage Charles and his sister Princess Anne were seen decorating the tree with their mother. 

Elsewhere, Princess Alexandra’s children James and Marina Ogilvy were seen enjoying a corridor full of extravagant gifts including a race car, huge blue giraffe and red space hoppers.

But being a Prince did not save Charles from being reprimanded by his mother, with the late Queen shouting: ‘Charles, come on!’ as he happily set about throwing sticks on a bonfire in the woods.

In another clip from early adulthood, the King was seen accompanying his mother on one of his first engagements, to see coins being made at the Royal Mint.

Charles reflected on how he learned the job of a working Royal from his family, saying: ‘It’s a great help to have a lot of people all doing the same thing because you can go and talk to them about it. 

‘You know, your own experiences and the amusing things that have happened. And you can learn a lot from each other.’

Simon Young, the BBC’s head of history, said the 60-minute programme offered ‘fresh insight into [Charles’s] remarkable life’, adding: ‘It’s a real privilege to be trusted with such rare, unseen archive material to create a new and distinctive portrait of someone so famous and photographed.’

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