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Charles’s widely unread Harmony: A New Way of Looking at the World is another book worth forcing yourself to plod through. Greenish readers who believe that interventions from an ecological King Charles would be welcome should look at where his environmentalism comes from and where it leads. Once narcissists are in power, they blow around like bin bags in the wind. Will elected politicians put him in his place? Can they? As Johnson has shown, the old conventions of public life are flimsy protections. A raucously divided country, with a border in the Irish Sea and a separatist government in Scotland, will soon have a puffed-up monarch adding his demands to the unstable mix. One “close source” said that Charles III “will want a seat at the table, not just to be briefed or rubber-stamping the decisions after they are taken”. Robert Jobson’s all but officially endorsed biography from 2018 describes a future king who expects to “lead as monarch, not just follow”. The story they bring from Clarence House is of a presumptuous prince, whose conviction that the rules don’t apply to him leaves him closer to Boris Johnson than his mother. To maintain access, they must be faithful transcribers of their masters’ unintentionally revealing musings. I read their books out of duty rather than pleasure because I know there will be nuggets of truth in the slurry. Like their counterparts in politics, the courtier journalists who surround royalty have picked a degraded way to earn a living.

Once opportunists are in power, they can blow around like bin bags in the wind The excuse doesn’t wash today, as there is no evidence that he has calmed down now that his coronation is in sight. You could, if not forgive, then at least understand Prince Charles’s behaviour when he was decades away from getting a proper job. Heirs to the throne are often in conflict with monarchs because there is little else for them to do than hang around waiting for the king or queen to die. Aides to the then Labour administration said that if he carried on opposing government policy “ sooner or later there will be real constitutional trouble”. Mark Bolland, a former courtier, said he “routinely meddled in political issues and wrote sometimes in extreme terms to ministers, MPs and others in positions of political power”. The first decade of the 21st century saw what we used to call the establishment begin to realise that Charles was a hard prince to house train. In his mind he will be a self-made monarch who will succeed to the throne on merit rather than by luck. He showed no awareness that he was the beneficiary of, if not genetic engineering, for any half-competent engineer could produce a better product, a genetic fluke. This is the result of social utopianism which believes humanity can be genetically and socially engineered to contradict the lessons of history.”

#KING CHARLES OF ENGLAND TV#

“What is wrong with everyone nowadays? Why do they all seem to think they are qualified to do things far beyond their technical capabilities? People seem to think they can all be pop stars, high court judges, brilliant TV personalities or infinitely more competent heads of state without ever putting in the necessary work or having natural ability. Without self-consciousness, he denounced young people with ideas above their station in 2003. There will be no sense of caution about Charles III: only a sense of entitlement. Times change and aristocrats are no longer frightened. Caution, as much as personal preference, demanded that she be careful.

The House of Windsor survived, but all around it war and revolution had destroyed the Habsburgs, Romanovs and Hohenzollerns. Elizabeth II only came to the throne because parliament had, in effect, deposed her uncle, Edward VIII. In the 20th century, there were good reasons to behave with restraint. She does her job and stays out of politics. Elizabeth II’s modesty has made many support what Helen Mirren called “ queenism” rather than “monarchism”, and wish “we could have a queen without the rest of the royal family”.

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