As the King turns 76 today, BRIAN HOEY looks at some of his previous birthdays when celebrations were definitely NOT in order

As the King celebrates his birthday on November 14, alongside his wife, Queen Camilla, will he also perhaps reflect on what might have been. Prince Charles turned 18 on the 14 November 1966 and was taken at Balmoral Castle wearing the Balmoral tartan Prince Charles was considered the most eligible and famous bachelor before he married Lady Diana Spencer in 1981 There was trouble on both asides. Five years after they married, Diana resumed a relationship with a former old boyfriend, James Hewit, in 1986 when this family photograph was taken The couple undertook a royal tour of Korea in November 1992 and shortly after John Major announced in the House of Commons that the couple were to separate Charles was regarded as the most eligible and famous bachelor in the world and when he married Lady Diana Spencer, in July 1981, making her the Princess of Wales, and she became the most famous woman on the planet. Charles never stopped talking about Camilla Parker Bowles and his friendship with her, even when at last he married Diana. Prince Charles and Prince Harry after the devastating news that Diana had died in a crash in Paris the previous night There was international mourning for Diana after the crash and the same amount of derision and scorn, aimed at Charles who was blamed, unfairly There was happiness for Prince Charles after marrying Camilla Parker Bowles in a Civil Ceremony at the Guildhall in Windsor Charles has recently completed an arduous but wonderful tour of Australia and Samoa while continuing to recover from his cancer diagnosis There was international mourning for her and the same amount of derision and scorn aimed at Charles who was blamed, unfairly, by many millions of men and women.