Most British people are not interested in the King’s Coronation, though many said they would still watch it or take part in related festivities, according to a YouGov poll.
In a survey of more than 3,000 adults conducted this month, 35pc said they “do not care very much” about the historic event, and 29pc said they “do not care at all”.
Andrew — who was forced out of royal duties after settling a sex-abuse case with Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Roberts Giuffre in 2022 — was second to the throne until Princess Diana gave birth to Charles’s eldest son, Prince William.
Now, the onetime “spare” is refusing to bow to demands to move out of his palatial $37 million home, Royal Lodge in Windsor, despite the demands of the new monarch.
Prince Harry will attend the King’s Coronation service in London next month alone – with Meghan Markle remaining in California with their children Archie and Lilibet.
Buckingham Palace confirmed the dramatic news in a statement today, saying it was ‘pleased to confirm’ the Duke of Sussex will be at Westminster Abbey on May 6.
But the Duchess will stay home at the couple’s residence in Montecito with one-year-old Lilibet and Archie, whose fourth birthday is on the same day as the ceremony.
What is going on with King Charles? In the run-up to next month’s coronation, there have been a string of stories on a similar theme. At the weekend, the Mail on Sunday reported that Charles has been at loggerheads with Church of England bishops over his desire for a more ‘diverse’ coronation. Charles is said to want non-Christian faith leaders to play an active role in what is traditionally an Anglican ceremony. Charles also gave his explicit backing last week to a research project investigating the monarchy’s historical links to the slave trade. He even refused to rule out paying reparations for slavery. And earlier this year, the Telegraph revealed plans for a coronation choir to showcase the ‘faces and voices’ of modern Britain.
An “archetype“is a “universally understood term or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned or emulated.” Throughout her podcast series of that name, Meghan Markle analyzed and condemned different “labels that hold women back”: “crazy,” “diva,” “bimbo.” Perhaps next season she’ll switch gears to assess her own husband’s pattern of behavior. Welcome to Archetypes episode thirteen where we will be discussing Stockholm syndrome, my special guest today is Prince Harry…
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t but Charles would be wise to sever the royal ties with these two.
Buckingham Palace said that it is cooperating with an independent study exploring the relationship between the British monarchy and the slave trade in the 17th and 18th centuries.
The Palace said King Charles takes the issue “profoundly seriously”.
The research is being carried out by the University of Manchester with Historic Royal Palaces.
Buckingham Palace is granting researchers full access to the Royal Archives and the Royal Collection.
Charles will be the 2nd last King.
King Charles and the late Queen Elizabeth II have received payments equivalent to more than £1bn from two land and property estates that are at the centre of a centuries-old debate over whether their profits should be given to the public instead.
An investigation by the Guardian has established the full scale of income extracted by the royals from the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall, which run giant portfolios of land and property across England.
The duchies operate as professionally run real estate empires that manage swathes of farmland, hotels, medieval castles, offices, shops and some of London’s prime luxury real estate. They also have substantial investment portfolios, but pay no corporation tax or capital gains tax.
The Guardian is running an expose of the Royal Family’s wealth. It is an eye-opener.
Does the institution merit such privilege?
Australia becoming a republic and scrapping the monarchy is “inevitable” even though Australians are proud to have the King as their head of state, the country’s new high commissioner has said.
In his first interview since moving to London, Stephen Smith said most British people would be “indifferent” to Australia getting rid of the monarchy and said it would not damage the countries’ relationship.
Dementia Joe has declined an invite to the coronation.
I have heard it’s because Joe simply does not travel well any longer but might it also reveal a decline in the importance of the Royals?
A number of “name” acts have declined offers to perform. Perhaps Charles is seen as the transition until William and Kate can revitalize the family business.
… But now Archewell have released tax filings for 2021 and they show what we all knew to be true the whole time. Meghan and Harry have spent the last three years doing very little at all. The documents show that the couple worked a grand total of one hour each a week at the foundation, racking up a time sheet of 52 hours in a year. Those chickens aren’t going to look after themselves.
King Charles will this week become the first British monarch to lay a wreath to the German victims of allied air raids in the second world war.
The move is a departure from his mother’s handling of the historically sensitive subject on previous royal visits to the country.
At the end of his first state visit as monarch, Charles III is scheduled on Friday to visit Hamburg’s St Nikolai memorial, a 12th-century church severely damaged during Operation Gomorrah in July 1943 and since preserved in its ruined state to commemorate its victims.
The Royal Archives may help one deduce whether the Duke of Windsor helped the Nazis bomb Buckingham Palace but do not expect to find out anything about Prince Philip, a historian granted rare access to the treasure trove has said.
Alexander Larman, whose books on the royal family between the wars outline the duke’s wartime assistance to Germany and MI5’s alleged collusion with an assassination attempt, said he had been surprised at the amount of information available in the archive at Windsor Castle. He told the Oxford Literary Festival yesterday that a royal archivist had said: “We are not in the business of protecting the Duke of Windsor’s reputation.”
Prince Andrew is believed to be in talks with American authors to write an explosive tell-all autobiography.
The memoir is described by sources close to the Duke of York as Spare 2.0 after Prince Harry’s controversial book, Spare.
The disgraced Duke is said to believe that an autobiography might allow him to set the record straight in the wake of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
The royal family’s approval rating has dropped to its lowest level in 12 months after the publication of Prince Harry’s book.
After a rise in popularity following Queen Elizabeth’s death, favourability among the public for the monarchy slumped to 46 per cent according to Ipsos UK’s poll, down from 54 per cent recorded in favour of the family in September, immediately after the state funeral.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are backing a campaign group working in UK schools that accuses parents of “gendering” their unborn children.
Prince Harry and his wife Meghan’s podcast, Archetypes, has a partnership with the Global Boyhood Initiative, a group which aims to “promote gender equity by fostering positive masculinity in boys and men”.
The Global Boyhood Initiative has created a curriculum which is being piloted in London schools and encourages primary school children to question “gender norms”.
One day Harry will regret marrying that woman.
The monarchy’s popularity in Canada has fallen to its lowest level in 14 years, suggests a new poll released Wednesday by Research Co.
As King Charles’s May coronation draws closer, fewer than one in five Canadians, or 19 per cent of the 1,000 individuals surveyed, would like the monarch to remain Canada’s head of state.
While the King, personally, is viewed more favourably by Canadians, at 32 per cent, his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth, was exactly twice as popular in February 2022, based on another Research Co. poll conducted before her death.
