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The moment Charlie finally got everything his way, including “Queen” Camilla.

I have read none of the press articles and studiously avoided all the broadcasts on Charles’ coronation, including the coverage of the event itself.  It is of less interest to me than the birdsong in our garden or the gentle rain that fell for much of the day on its newly cut lawns.  These things gladden.  My wife tells me that, as has become traditional at the coronation of British monarchs, they sang Hubert Parry’s “I was glad” in Westminster Abbey.  But what, to me, is the accession of this self-absorbed man, the very model of the paternalistic liberal and a climate alarmist and diversitoid to boot, to the British throne?  As an institution in Time, hereditary monarchy testifies - or should still testify - to the nation’s dignity and standing, and should function as a focal point for the people’s identity.  Does Charles have any thought whatever for the English people?  The non-whites colonising us obviously pre-occupy him.  The Welsh and Scots perhaps also, in some antique way.  But the English?  I see no sign that he even knows who we are, or wants to know.  Our name is becoming unsayable.

It can at least be said of his mother Elizabeth that she rigorously avoided all public entanglement with politics.  Not for one moment will the new monarch be able to replicate that.  I foresee inevitable damage to the reputation of the monarchy, and a steady if not spectacular detachment of the British Establishment’s messaging about the British nation from our own sense of identity and relation.

Now that would be worth a bit of attention.

                .... and Part 2