King Charles Reflects on ‘Troubled’ Times in Emotional Video for Queen Elizabeth’s 100th Birthday

Charles may wear the crown, but on his mother's 100th birthday, he was just a son missing his mum.

Marking what would have been Queen Elizabeth's centenary, he filmed from the Balmoral library — her favorite place — called her ‘darling mama,’ and told the world she would have been deeply troubled by the state of things today.

4 years since her passing, the monarch stood emotional, completely human, and every bit his mother's son.

Special Statue Honoring Queen Elizabeth Revealed as Royal Family Kick Off Centenary Celebrations

Queen Elizabeth is getting a memorial she deserves — and it sounds like it will be worth the wait.

The designs, revealed just ahead of her centenary, feature statues of both the Queen and Prince Philip, set to stand near Buckingham Palace — right where she belongs.

Insider Reveals Prince Philip’s Ugly Row with Queen That Nearly Left Her 'Stranded' on a Motorway

Seventy-three years of marriage, one crown, and apparently quite a few blazing rows.

Prince Philip was the only person on earth who treated the Queen like a regular wife — annoying habits and all.

The man once threatened to leave her on the motorway during an argument. The Queen of the United Kingdom. On the side of a road. He meant it too.

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Remembering Queen Elizabeth on her 100th birthday!

Long May She Reign — In Our Memory

She was a wartime mechanic — nicknamed ‘Princess Auto Mechanic.’

Before she was the Queen, she was in overalls. Princess Elizabeth trained as a mechanic during WWII, taking apart engines, changing tires, and learning to drive military trucks and ambulances.

Every morning at Balmoral, Queen Elizabeth was woken up by a bagpiper playing directly under her window at 7:30 am. For fifteen full minutes. Every single day!

Somehow, she never complained. Though to be fair, after fifteen minutes of that, you'd get up too.

The Queen found out she was queen while sitting in a tree. She had climbed up to a viewing platform at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya to watch wildlife at a waterhole below.

British hunter Jim Corbett, who was staying there at the time, captured it perfectly in the hotel's visitors' log: "For the first time in the history of the world, a young girl climbed into a tree one day a princess and climbed down next day a queen."

Queen Elizabeth had two birthdays every year — and she earned both of them.

Her real birthday was April 21st, but her official one was celebrated in June, when the weather was kinder, and the parades could go as planned.

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