After waiting longer than any British heir to become monarch, King Charles has quietly settled into his new role with little of the drama some commentators had expected but with family divisions and some fundamental issues still looming.
The 74-year-old Charles, who will be formally crowned on Saturday, was the oldest sovereign to take the throne in a lineage that dates back 1,000 years when he succeeded his hugely popular mother Queen Elizabeth after her death last September. She had reigned for 70 years.
In recent years Charles had said he well understood that when he became head of state he could no longer engage in some of the campaigning he had done as heir, and as promised, there have been no fireworks. “He hasn’t completely jettisoned all the things of his mother’s reign but he has tried to put his own stamp on the monarchy and on Britain.”Republican sentiment – almost entirely publicly absent during Elizabeth’s reign – has become visible, with eggs thrown at the king and his wife Camilla on one trip, and small groups of protesters voicing opposition at others.
Charles told the British government in January he would like an expected surge in profit from a 900 million pound -a-year wind farm deal for the Crown Estate to go to the “wider public good” rather than to the royal family.As often is the case for the House of Windsor, its greatest problems come from within. The issue of how to treat his younger brother Prince Andrew is still unresolved after Andrew settled a U.S. lawsuit in which a woman accused him of sexual assault.
Harry’s presence at the coronation and Meghan’s decision to stay at home in California with their two children has dominated much of the news coverage ahead of the May 6 event, along with his ongoing court battles with newspaper publishers.
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