what was prince charles last name?
Mountbatten-Windsor
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 Charles was the second son of King James VI of Scotland , but after his father inherited the English throne in 1603 , he moved to England , where he spent much of the rest of his life . He became heir apparent to the English , Irish and Scottish thrones on the death of his elder brother , Henry Frederick , Prince of Wales , in 1612 . An unsuccessful and unpopular attempt to marry him to the Spanish Habsburg princess Maria Anna culminated in an eight @-@ month visit to Spain in 1623 that demonstrated the futility of the marriage negotiations . Two years later , he married the Bourbon princess Henrietta Maria of France instead . 

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 Charles had no legitimate children , but acknowledged a dozen by seven mistresses , including five by the notorious Barbara Villiers , Lady Castlemaine , for whom the Dukedom of Cleveland was created . His other mistresses included Moll Davis , Nell Gwyn , Elizabeth Killigrew , Catherine Pegge , Lucy Walter , and Louise de Kérouaille , Duchess of Portsmouth . As a result , in his lifetime he was often nicknamed " Old Rowley " , the name of one of his horses which was notable at the time as a stallion . 

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 Charles was born in St James 's Palace on 29 May 1630 . His parents were Charles I ( who ruled the three kingdoms of England , Scotland and Ireland ) and Henrietta Maria ( the sister of the French king Louis XIII ) . Charles was their second son and child . Their first son was born about a year before Charles but died within a day . England , Scotland and Ireland were respectively predominantly Anglican , Presbyterian and Roman Catholic . Charles was baptised in the Chapel Royal on 27 June by the Anglican Bishop of London , William Laud , and brought up in the care of the Protestant Countess of Dorset , though his godparents included his maternal uncle and grandmother , Marie de ' Medici , both of whom were Catholics . At birth , Charles automatically became Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay , along with several other associated titles . At or around his eighth birthday , he was designated Prince of Wales , though he was never formally invested with the Honours of the Principality of Wales . 

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 Edward , Prince of Wales was a 49 @-@ year @-@ old married father of five at the time he visited Tranby Croft , and had a history of association with scandals . In 1866 he had incurred the censure of his mother , Queen Victoria , when he became involved with " the fast racing set " , and his betting had " harm [ ed ] his reputation and contribute [ d ] to the widespread unpopularity of the monarchy in this period " , according to his biographer , Sidney Lee . 

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 Charles Peale recorded family births on the flyleaf of a copy of Matthew Pilkington 's Dictionary of Painters , rather than in a Bible , and after recording " Aldrovand " added the notation , " if he likes that name when he comes of age " . The father was a member of the American Philosophical Society , and in February 1796 brought his young son to a meeting , and asked the members to select another name for the child . They decided on Benjamin Franklin Peale , naming the boy after the Society 's founder , Benjamin Franklin . Society legend holds that the boy was given the name while placed in the chair of the president of the Society , which had been donated by Franklin . 
