I'm John Batchel with my good friend and colleague Gregory Copley, editor and publisher of

Defense and Foreign Affairs. Most importantly, the author of a new book, Noble State,

in praise of constitutional monarchy. It depends upon a monarch with a vivid understanding of his

role or her role. Right now, the story is that when the President of the United States was at Windsor Castle

before and after with the king and queen, that the king was successful in impressing upon the

president the necessity for maintaining and restoring Ukraine.

That's the story at the London Times.

I mentioned that because it seems compatible with Gregory Copley's analysis for some time

that a king is head of state, not a head of government, and that it's his role in order to

make the people feel confident with a high

morale, inspired, kingly inspired, and also to deal with the relationships to other heads of state.

The president is the head of state and head of government uniquely in the United States.

In Britain, there is a separation. Mr. Starrmer, who is much criticized, is the head of

government. However, I moved to another story that Gregory introduces me to, the King and Queen

visiting Barrow in Furness. What I know from the map is that this is a small port town for

sometimes, 2,000 years perhaps, on the west coast of Britain.

What is the significance of his visit, Gregory?

Well, he visited Barrow and Furnace basically to commission into service, into Royal Navy Service,

the sixth of seven new astute class

nuclear submarines, the latest being HMS, Agamemnon, which is one of the names which has

been used historically by the Royal Navy for warships. And it was a great opportunity for the

king to basically launch, or not launched, to commission

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