King Charles is a diminished, grey little man playing dress-up in a crown he never earned. He is not his mother. Elizabeth understood what the Crown was for. Charles treats it like an interfaith hospitality suite.
His ancestors built a Christian kingdom and an empire. If the dead could speak, they would be howling at the spectacle of their heir taking a knee to a faith whose most uncompromising currents still regard the West as territory to be subdued. That is not “dialogue.” That is a king who has forgotten which civilization he was sworn to defend.
The title used to be Defender of the Faith. He has quietly rewritten it into protector of “the space for Faith” in a multi-faith nation. That is not statesmanship. It is abdication in slow motion. Abolish the office. A monarchy that will not defend the civilization that created it has already abolished itself.
monarchy now!