THERE are moments in the life of a nation when a single paragraph says more than a thousand speeches.
Buried within this year’s Sovereign Grant Report is such a paragraph, as reported in TCW by Henry Getley.
For generations, the British Crown has been publicly understood as standing at the head of our constitutional settlement as Supreme Governor of the Church of England and Defender of the Faith. Today, however, the official description speaks instead of His Majesty as one who ‘protects the space for Faith within the multi-faith nation’.
