Coronation of King Charles: When Charles, Diana, Princes William, Harry visited Palm Beach County
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On Saturday, Charles, the late Queen Elizabeth's oldest son, will be crowned King Charles III. His wife Camilla will be crowned queen.
It was nearly 70 years ago when Elizabeth, then 27, was crowned as queen of England. Her coronation launched a seven-decade reign that would see radical transformations in her family, kingdom, and the world.
Where Elizabeth II represented youthful hope after the tumult of World War II, King Charles III is being crowned as war rages in Ukraine and political and financial tensions ramp up across Europe and the globe.
The royal family always seems to make news, even when they visit the United States.
Here's a look back at when members of the royal family visited Palm Beach County.
Prince Harry plays a charity polo match in Wellington
In 2016, Prince Harry, the younger son of Princess Diana and Prince Charles, visited Palm Beach County to play a charity polo match at Valiente Polo Farm in Wellington.
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In 1989, the Prince of Wales visited Florida to inaugurate the Windsor Polo and Beach Club. The heir to the British throne lent his presence, his family name — Windsor — to a commercial development owned by friends.
The polo club, 10 miles north of Vero Beach in Indian River County, was the brainchild of Geoffrey and Jorie Kent. He was born in East Africa, she was from Oak Brook, Illinois, and together they owned Abercrombie & Kent, a travel company specializing in expensive trips to exotic places. Geoffrey Kent and the prince had been playing polo together for years and founded the Windsor Park Polo Team in England in 1987.
Following the inauguration of the new club in Vero Beach, Kent and the Prince of Wales played for the Windsor Park Polo Team at the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club in Wellington.
Prince of Wales admitted to hospital in West Palm Beach
In 1980, the Prince of Wales was admitted to Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach after suffering from heat exhaustion. He had spent a rigorous afternoon on horseback on the polo fields of Wellington in 90-degree heat. He was released the next day, flew to Eleuthera in the Bahamas and returned to Wellington a few days later.
Prince Charles, Princess Diana attend controversial event at The Breakers in Palm Beach
In 1985, Prince Charles brought his wife, Diana, Princess of Wales, to Wellington and Palm Beach in a visit marred by controversy over a $5,000-a-head banquet at The Breakers that was to benefit a college in New Mexico.
In a speech at the banquet, the prince chastised critics of the benefit's host, industrialist Armand Hammer. There also was a flap over Patricia Kluge, the ball's co-chair, who resigned after it was revealed that, years earlier, she had posed nude for a British magazine.
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The prince returned to Palm Beach County in 1988. He visited Donald Trump's Palm Beach estate, Mar-a-Lago but stayed for two nights in less grandiose surroundings — a horse ranch west of Lake Worth Beach owned by his polo-playing friends Geoffrey and Jorie Kent. There was a wildlife show in Wellington, a luncheon to benefit Friends of the Masai Mara, and a polo match, which, as always, the prince's team won.
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Laura Lordi is the digital strategy editor for The Palm Beach Post. Contact Lordi at 561-542-6249 or llordi@pbpost.com. Instagram: @LauraDLordi
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