This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor. I welcome my colleague Conrad Black,

distinguished biographer, writing for the National Post, about the politics of Canada, which now

must take into account something that's very unique in Canada

that the United States has no experience of. A king. King Charles III is the king of Canada,

as well as the king of Great Britain, as well as the king of New Zealand and Australia when he travels to those lands.

But right now, the king and the queen, Camilla, appeared on a sunny day brought in by a Canadian

aircraft to attend Parliament, of course, to meet and greet many people on their way to Parliament.

And the King read a speech to the people of Canada sitting on his throne, all very proper.

What did it mean?

What were we witnessing?

Conrad, please forgive us for our ignorance, but having lost a king several hundred years ago, the experience of kingship

is, well, it's a double-edged sword to continue the metaphor.

It's something we celebrate having got rid of in the Declaration of Independence is still

something to admire, especially when the king is as vigorous and eager to

take up the charge as Charles III. What is the king of Canada? What is his responsibilities to you? What are

the Canadian responsibilities to the king? Good evening to you. Yeah, good evening to you, John. Well, you're quite

right. At the end of World War II, there was a specific statutory change, Acts of Parliament,

and the then-King, George V. The 6th, the father of the late Queen of the Second, became not only the king of the United Kingdom

and of the British Empire,

but the king of Canada and, as you said,

Australia and New Zealand.

And so he's separately the king of each of those countries.

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