I'm John Batchel with Gregory Cotley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs,

and author most recently of Noble State, which is a case for return to monarchy, sovereignty of monarchy,

and there are several countries that speak English that have Charles as their monarch.

The United States is not, I like to say, it was a couple of unhappy conversations with Benjamin Franklin that led us to this impasse at the moment.

However, King Charles report, Gregory, the Pope, is to be laid to rest on Saturday this week.

And you tell me the Prince of Wales attends.

Is that traditional that the

king doesn't go, the Prince does? Well, yes. When Charles himself was Prince of Wales, he

attended the funeral of the last, on behalf of the British government. So it's actually going to be

significant. I think maybe that Prime Minister Stama of the UK will go out with the Prince of Wales, but it's going to be important for Prince of Wales to be significant. I think it may be that Prime Minister Stama of the UK will go out with

the Prince of Wales, but it's going to be important for Prince of Wales to be there. It follows

very closely on the heels, of course, of King Charles and Queen Camilla's visit, state visit, to

Italy, during which he was able to meet with a very ailing, obviously, Pope Francis,

and they had a warm conversation, not there first, by the way,

but that was very significant.

And it's also very important for the Prince of Wales

to keep taking these higher and higher profile

and more responsible diplomatic missions.

So that's been very important. During the king's visit,

of course, a couple of weeks ago, when he was in Ravenna, particularly, he said, I'm also here

as the king of Canada to celebrate the great liberation of Italy in World War II when Canadian and

British troops fought against the fascists and the

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