Sweet crayon drawings by a very young King Charles III will show a different side to Britain’s royal family when they come up for auction this week
Colorful portraits of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, depicted as never before, have emerged for sale as part of an “extraordinary” collection of royal memorabilia. It is thought that Charles drew the crayon and pencil pictures of his parents between 1953 and 1955, when he would have been about 5 or 6 years old.
This collection will help people relate to him even more in his role as our monarch.” According to the auction house, the drawings form part of an “extraordinary” royal memorabilia collection. There are eight other drawings by the young Prince Charles, as he was at the time. These include one that features a pair of carmine bee-eater birds and is signed “Charles”; one of a delivery van from “Happybright, Mr Charles’s Shop”; several animals and a card for Easter.
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