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Pod Save The King

After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself?

Pod Save The King

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News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

3.71K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

For most people, Queen Elizabeth II’s reign was their only experience of the British monarchy until her death last year - but will more of the same work in the Carolean era? The royal family has repeatedly reinvented itself over the centuries, and with support for the institution falling among young people, historian Dr Ed Owens believes the time is ripe for another royal stepchange. He joins Pod Save the King host Ann Gripper to discuss his new book After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself?, the challenges facing King Charles III and why people should not assume Prince William is the royal best placed to drive the change needed. After Elizabeth: Can the Monarchy Save Itself? by Dr Ed Owens, published by Bloomsbury, is out now Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. Hello and welcome back to Pot Save the King. I am delighted to be joined by another special

0:46.4

guest this week making his Pod Save the King debut Dr Ed Owens, historian and author

0:52.2

of The Family Firm and his new book is After Elizabeth, can

0:56.6

the monarchy save itself?

0:58.5

So I'm sure we've got a very interesting conversation ahead of us.

1:02.1

Ed lovely to have you with this today.

1:04.2

Thank you for having me on Anne.

1:05.7

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1:08.8

I mean how much danger do you think the one a key is in?

1:12.3

You're right, it is a punchy title. It was a book that was not

1:17.2

really aimed to please anybody either in that I'm I don't take the view either of Royalist or Republicans in this.

1:24.6

I try to offer a sort of a deep assessment of where the monarchy has got to in 2023, based on, if you like, a long history over the last 250 years,

1:37.0

where the monarchy has encountered, I should say, moments of real peril, real danger, and how it's overcome those

1:45.9

to essentially answer the question, is this another one of those moments?

1:51.4

And if it is, can the monarchy over? of those

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