A portrait of the King for his matriculation at the University of Cambridge (Picture: PA)
A mugshot of a young King Charles enrolling at the University of Cambridge has been released for the first time.
Trinity College, where he studied for three years, shared the photo of the 18-year-old prince ahead of the coronation next week.
Charles posed for the photo in the 17th century Wren Library in October 1967.
The postage-stamp sized portrait, with a note reading ‘Wales HRH, The Prince of’, has been preserved in Trinity College’s archives since it was taken 56 years ago.
He studied archaeology and anthropology in his first year and then history for two years, graduating in 1970 with a 2.2.
Trinity Fellow Professor Adrian Poole, a contemporary of the royal, said: ‘For all of us, it was our first time in the Wren Library.
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‘We were overawed and a bit intimidated. Were we in the right place? So many books. Busts of Cicero and Marcus Aurelius. A statue of Byron.
‘A prince more or less scarcely seemed out of place.’
As well as being photographed in a gown for the admissions record, Charles also signed the college’s admission book alongside his fellow students.
His name is noted as ‘Charles, Philip, Arthur, George Prince of Wales’ with his dad’s name ‘Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh’, and present residence ‘Buckingham Palace, London’.
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Charles graduated in 1970 with a 2.2.