Charles In Charge

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🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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It’s the first British coronation in 70 years and along with the celebration, questions abound: What kind of king will Charles be? Who is Charles anyway? And why even have a king? Guest: Imogen West-Knights, writer and Slate contributor If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When I asked Image in West Knights, who covers all things British here at Slate, to quantify
0:12.4	just how enthusiastically her friends and neighbors are anticipating the coronation of King
0:17.7	Charles, she talked about the street parties many are holding on Saturday, the coronation
0:22.5	and Keesh, some diehards are making, and then she talked about Colin.
0:28.0	Do you guys know about Colin the Catapilla?
0:32.0	The what?
0:33.0	Colin the Catapilla?
0:34.0	Colin the Catapilla.
0:35.0	What are you doing?
0:36.0	This is kind of a tangent.
0:37.8	So in the UK, there's this thing called Colin the Catapilla, which is a catapilla shaped
0:41.9	cake that's traditional to buy people on their birthdays and every supermarket does its
0:46.6	own version with different names, with the original school Colin and supermarkets are
0:50.5	doing the coronation themed Colin cake with a little crown on it.
0:55.5	There's an official everything.
0:58.2	Why are there so much stuff like this?
1:00.8	Like coronation scone deal where you can buy a scone and some jam for five pounds.
1:08.9	Image in says this coronation is unavoidable.
1:12.3	Think of it like the British Super Bowl.
1:14.7	Everyone's going to be watching it or eating a coronation themed cake or wearing a coronation
1:20.2	themed t-shirt, even if they're allergic to them on our key.
1:24.5	It's kind of weird because loads of people have asked me this week like are you going
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