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Prince Charles The Prince of Wales, Colonel Welsh Guards, shares a light moment with members of the Welsh Guards band at a remembrance service at the Guards' Chapel, Wellington Barracks in London, Sunday Nov. 11, 2018.
Prince Charles The Prince of Wales, Colonel Welsh Guards, shares a light moment with members of the Welsh Guards band at a remembrance service at the Guards' Chapel, Wellington Barracks in London, Sunday Nov. 11, 2018.

• Britain's Prince Charles turns 70 today and is still heir to the throne -- a role he has served since he was a child. The prince isn't lacking in things to do and shows few signs of slowing down -- he is wealthy, active in matters important to him, and preparing to welcome his fourth grandchild when Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, gives birth in the spring. His destiny, however, is to be king, a position he will automatically assume upon the death of his 92-year-old mother, Queen Elizabeth II. When that happens, Charles will be bound by the constitutional requirement that the monarch refrain from trying to influence policy. Until then, Charles is free to lobby for action on climate change, support organic farming, and fight genetically modified crops as he sees fit. He's doing all that while increasingly stepping in for the queen and supervising the Prince's Trust, an ambitious charity he founded 42 years ago that has helped hundreds of thousands of young Britons. Is a candle-crowded birthday cake a signal that it's time for the graying prince to take it easy? Not on your life, says Charles' wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall. "I don't think he thinks he's 70," she wrote in a birthday tribute in The Telegraph Magazine. "I think it's just a number to him. There's no way that he will slow down. You must be joking. I keep saying 70 is getting on a bit. It's not very old but it is old. You have to slow down a bit."

Michael Buble says that even though his cancer-stricken son aspires to have superhuman powers, he's already a superhero in his eyes. "He loves Spider-man, he loves Superman, but they are not real," Buble said of 5-year-old Noah. "I tell him all the time that he's my superhero. He is literally the greatest, strongest [and] most beautiful thing I've ever been a part of." Buble said Noah, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2016, taught him how to overcome adversity. The stress of his son's condition coupled with him losing his desire to make music contributed to the two-year break he took to focus on his son's treatment and his family. But Buble said things got back to normal with Noah beginning kindergarten. Now, the Grammy-winning singer returns to music with his 10th album, love, out on Friday. Buble said the album will provide a snapshot into his mindset during the past couple of years. He also will offer his perspective on love, which he calls a "complicated word." He ultimately found his groove after inviting some of his band members to his home. "I said, 'Come to the house, let's get drunk, eat pizza and play Mario Kart,'" he recalled. "And then when we were all toasted. We were like, 'Yeah, let's jam.' And then we started to jam."

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In this Oct. 16, 2018 photo, Michael Buble poses for a portrait at the Sunset Marquis in Los Angeles to promote his 10th album "Love," out on Friday, Nov. 16.

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