Former royal butler shares King Charles’ heartbreaking response to becoming king

Being baptized as Alexandrina Victoria, Queen Victoria was the first to choose a different royal name.

According to Harrold, a lot of people believed the name might be changed in honor of his grandfather.

He remembered: “I remember asking him what he would be, and he said to me, ‘I could be Charles, but I could also be George VII’, which is quite nice because his grandfather was George VI.”

Grant also acknowledged that the naming choice was unexpected: “We thought he would most likely be George VII. So when they revealed that he was Charles III, I was taken aback.