Every prince or princess who becomes monarch heralds a new age, a time when stock is taken not only of the institution itself, but an assessment is made about their continuing role in a society and world that changes at lightning speed.
Charles has been a King-in-waiting for so long that his reign in comparison with his mother’s will be relatively short. It is also unlikely that he will survey the sheer scope of the events that so shaped her time as sovereign: the austerity of the post-war years, the death of the age of empire, the creation of the commonwealth, the revolution from a socially conservative country to a socially liberal one and the continuing slide in the UK’s global footprint.
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