Our new King, Charles

[Brideandpredjudice]

How awful it must be for him to lose his mother and then immediately take on this role. He's had his whole life to prepare, but can a person ever really prepare for something like that?

If he lives to the same age as his mother we will have 20 years of his reign. Plenty of time to adjust.

King Charles (weird saying that) is nearly 74 years old, so I think naturally William will be his right hand man and will have an enhanced role. Feasibly William could be king within ten years, so his apprenticeship will ramp up now.

I agree.

I met him at an event once and he was nice enough.

I also like how he is with his grandchildren. Louis obviously adores him and Charles seemed to enjoy bouncing him on his knee at the jubilee pageant. It seemed like seeing a glimpse of Charles the grandfather, a normal grandfather.

I think like all of us, he's matured, grown, changed. I don't think Charles today is the same Charles of ten years ago never mind 30/40 years ago.

He will be fine.

Does anyone else want to add ‘spaniel’ when they hear King Charles? 😬

That's a horrible comment.

@Kellie45

your quote is from Psalm 130, I recognised it.

He shouldn’t have done it even as Prince of Wales. He has never held down a job in his life, and is obscenely wealthy, but he’s meddled with other people’s livelihoods so that they lost jobs and incomes. Don’t you remember his awful bigoted statements about someone on his administrative staff who dared to ask about promotion? He referred to a black woman in his employment as one of “those people.” Despicable.

Yes.

They’ve made the second and subsequent verses rhyme now. My stupid thought for the day.

(Right up there with ‘it’s been raining, now we can’t go out and water the beans 😆😳).

My DH.

I think they are mad to allow Charles to take this on. He has too many gaffes to his name which could see the popularity of the institution nosedive. William on the otherhand being very much in the mould of Diana, ie. considerate, shy, and very likeable, would see a much smoother transition and maintain the high levels of popularity for the role.

I agree. There was a great play about this at the Almeida in London a few years ago.

But Charles Windsor has been pretty clear about his assumption of his entitlement to reign. I don’t see such an arrogant man stepping aside for his son.

Absolutely. Not my king!

I will mourn the death of our queen but I think the reign of the monarchy should come to an end now.

@user1471505494 agreed about Boris's speech

His whole upbringing was toxic

um, and who was his mother?

Is this meant to be a statement in his defence? He was 32, she was 19.

What do you mean by the word defence?

Is he on trial for something?

No, it will still be God Save The Queen 😏

Sod that. He's spent his entire life preparing to be King and you'd rather he didn't bother?!

Madness. It's his destiny. Great man. Had the pleasure of meeting him and I think he's going to be superb.

I do feel for him, and I wish him all the very best.

I think it must be awful to have to be in the public eye at such a time. For the rest of us when a family member dies we can grieve in relatively privacy. Not so for members of the Royal family.

Bizarre that our new monarch is married to a woman who's husband had an affair with his (Charles' ) sister. At least they managed to "keep it in the family" and no-one has lost their head over it.

It’s worth dusting off your history and looking at the very interesting parallels between this moment and 22 January 1901. That was the day Queen Victoria died. Like Queen Elizabeth II, her reign was a record breaker. She also reigned over an era of unprecedented technological and social change. Like Elizabeth, she was often embarrassed by the conduct of her close family. And when she died, most people had doubts about her successor. King Edward VII was a nightmare as Prince of Wales - constantly unfaithful, hooked on the high life, extravagant and pleasure-seeking (think a Victorian Boris), he made Charles look positively ascetic. But he turned out to be a reasonably popular King for his short reign.

I’m inclined to give King Charles III a chance. He’s had plenty of years to repent his sins after all.

Me and my friend are having serious trouble with this

Wow! New stamps. Notes/coins

Letterboxes! Will they remove ER? What will
Ot be: CR?

Were not elizabethans. WhT are we? Chartons?
Charlesthians?

What else?