A King As We Know It or A King As We’ve Never Seen It Before?
By Samantha Stafford Tuesday, May 27, 2025 Time 18:00
Pictured above Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, speaking with King Charles III ahead of his speech from the throne in the Senate in Ottawa
Not in living memory have the great majority of us living on this blessed earth, seen such a well dressed faultlessly elegant-sublimely courteous-well composed and profoundly well thought out male Head of State.
In this Space Age we inhabit, a lot of that wouldn’t likely mean much, were it not to be in relation to an individual who has been unwaveringly studying for the role he has finally embodied, for more combined earth years than that what was once the average male life expectancy only but a century ago. An era when his dashing, revered and globally beloved grandfather was on the throne that knew no night.
A poet might say oh what progress has befallen us in the span of but three reigns if not two—the complete annihilation of nationwide industrially backed Nazism and a return to an almost universally accepted religious pluralism not enjoyed by human kind since the Romans, yet today it’s not Jews, Worshippers of Mithras or Zoroastrians peacefully rubbing shoulders in any given corner of the King’s Commonwealth, its Jews, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindu’s Buddhists and Beyond.
Unbelievable but absolutely true.
No more Popery, no more Jacobites, no Zionists let least Jihadists. Just Brits or people who have descended from those who were once British or rubbed shoulders with them.
It’s hard to fathom let alone appreciate these days because it’s so normal! But you literally need to go through history book upon history book to find such tolerance, harmony and community. Dare I say, in reality, it’s never really happened in the history of humanity. Just think about it, the Romans would eventually persecute the Christians.
Fortunately from their once progressive position of equality during those crucial years of the consolidation of the commonwealth, as it peacefully transitioned from empire. Today people can look over the completely legal intercontinental immigration policies of Charles’ forebarer’s governments as if they were absolute plain banality
Well to put it lightly, bloody hell haven’t they worked a treat (a far cry from what is happening today).
The late cloth spinning Gandhi’s 20th Century struggles in South Africa would quite literally have sounded preposterous beyond belief for any curious millennial teen wizard-like with an iPad, iPhone or set of Meta’s, and to use a British phrase with humour aside jolly gosh thank god. But let’s thank the world as well, along with the internationally homegrown guiding force that is monarchy
Perhaps never in the history of man has a King inherited a greater treasure imaginable than an idea and one he no doubt lives for yet even more importantly one the great majority of the world now embrace
The late dear, loved and cherished but unwaveringly laborious Queen was given the Commonwealth—a union forged with the idea of equality, The King himself has been given that idea—very much turned reality
The question is what will he do with it and what does this all mean though? What do these historically admirable values that now surpass any single commonwealth nation alone signify for less fortunate parts of our world?
One would like to think we all know yet one thing we doubtlessly do all know is an idea is one thing and a reality another. Yet that said the Queen certainly succeeded now will the king?