The looming question is whether King Charles III, who is less popular than his mother was, can maintain public support for the Royal Family.
, who for seventy years kept up a daily schedule of civic engagements, avoided virtually any commentary that could be construed as political, and, in a tumultuous world, provided Britain with what Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party, referred to in the House of Commons on Friday as “its stillest point”? The Queen’s obituary in the Londondescribed her as “the woman who saved the monarchy in this country.
The looming question is whether Charles, who is less popular than his mother was, can maintain public support for the Royal Family—not only at home in Britain but also in the British Commonwealth of Nations, a loose alliance largely composed of former British colonies, fourteen of which still have the British monarch as their titular head of state, in spite of being self-ruling nations. On both fronts, supporters of the monarchy have reason to be concerned.
In dealing with the Commonwealth and trying to preserve the Crown’s central place within it, Charles’s task will be even harder, as he deals with the seemingly unstoppable progression of history. Last year, the Caribbean island of Barbados declared itself a republic, the first ex-British colony to make such a break since the nineteen-nineties.
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