What fate awaits our treasured monarchy?
The recent marriage of Prince Harry to an American divorcée and the declining vigour of our sovereign majesty Elizabeth II, by the Grace of God Queen of this Realm and of Her Other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, has led some to wonder whether our ancient monarchy (in business for the last 1,200 years) has much life left in it.
The prospect of Charles, Prince of Wales, soon succeeding to the throne has accelerated the debate.
Charles, to say the least, is not the much-loved figure that his mother is. He lacks both her tact and gravitas; his personal life, unlike his mother’s and grandfather’s, has not been beyond reproach.
He is, to put no fine point on it, an unrepentant adulterer, a neglectful husband and a bit of a space cadet when it comes to his support of homeopathy and his habit of talking to plant life.