Britain's King Charles III cuts into a castle-styled cake during a visit to the South Wales town of Merthyr Tydfil on Friday.

Britain’s King Charles celebrates his 77th birthday on Friday with a trip to Wales, where he can reflect on a year of some personal successes often overshadowed by family feuds, the scandals of his younger brother Andrew and his own illness.

From deftly handling U.S. President Donald Trump to symbolically bringing the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church closer than they have been in five centuries, it has been a year the monarch can look back on with satisfaction.

But as ever, the internal family issues that enthral the media and fascinate the public have cast a pall – none more so than the banishment of Andrew from public life over his ties to the la

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