Saving the King - or Saving the Country - Heart of the Regent Not Determined by Rituals - But Duty Should Reign Supreme

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Sep 12, 2022 at 13:48

From a decidedly American perspective (though a generation away from a British ex-pat), we are told of the rituals and procedures of producing a true successor to the throne (this observer's antecedent was there when going from Victoria to George V), but only in the evidence of how the Regent responded to his/her duties did any opinion get verification of the true heart of the monarchy.
Charles III is yet untested as Regent, the majority of his life being spent in the shadows of his mother (and father) and the opinion here is that many changes occured, but what remains as the guiding principle remains to be seen.
The Britain Charles was born into is definitively not, repeat NOT, the United Kingdom seen today, reasons for that being so are as varied as there are the varying divisions of the realm. That the monarchy even still exists speaks to an underlying mystery since, while it is not the only remaining monarchy of a regally depleted Europe, it certainly is the most challenged, and challenging remnant of times that have desired to call into the question the validity of regally governed nations, when obviously democratically controlled government do not appear to have any better answers to the rebellions of the mobs in Roman fashions of disobedience.
This is what Charles II faces, does he not? Whatever happened to loyalty to the throne? The seeds of dissent that destroyed the Russian monarchy last century are resident to the UNited Kingdom today. Does that mean the blood relationship between George and Nickolas still exist?

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