King Charles certainly had an unusual childhood. Growing up as the oldest child of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, he experienced an extraordinary adolescence that very few could relate to.
But when it comes to childhood regrets, the monarch is decidedly more relatable.
A friend of the King - who celebrated his 78th birthday on Saturday - has revealed the one thing Charles and younger sister Princess Anne were desperate to do as children, but were always refused.
Charles's friend told the Times: "One of the King's funniest stories that he's told a few times - and it’s whenever you get him on to his list of regrets of things he hasn't done - is that he's never been to Butlin's, and that he and Princess Anne never went as children.
They continued: "He asked the Queen and Prince Philip many times if he and Anne could go on holiday to Butlin's as children, and he tells how the Queen would always say: 'I don't quite think we will be able to manage that.'
"He laughs at how disappointed he was that he and his sister never managed to pull that off as children. He always wanted to go."
Rather than staying at one of the seaside holiday resorts, Charles and Anne tended to spend their ho...