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The John Batchelor Show

KING CHARLES REPORT: IN ROME. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS AT NERO'S COLISEUM

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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KING CHARLES REPORT: IN ROME. GREGORY COPLEY, DEFENSE & FOREIGN AFFAIRS AT NERO'S COLISEUM 
UNDATED ROME

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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:13.0

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0:18.7

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0:35.9

I'm John Batchel with my colleague Gregory Copley.

0:38.9

The good news, King Charles and Queen Camilla visited the Coliseum.

0:41.3

The second day of their state visit to Italy.

0:45.0

Earlier in the day, the king and queen, I'm following the report from Europe,

0:49.9

met with Italian President Sergio Matarelli and his daughter and his daughter, First Lady, Laura Matarelli.

0:52.0

All wonderful.

0:52.9

The king looks extremely excited, Gregory.

0:55.8

He's not going to meet the Pope because the Pope's still recovering, but this is more of Charles's

1:00.9

hard work to knit together at the continent. Is it working? Oh, it's working in a dramatic scale.

1:08.0

We've seen it with the other state visits which King Charles has undertaken in the last

1:11.5

couple of years. But this one is so dramatic and so, in a sense, anti-EU because the fervor

1:19.8

is for continuity. It's for, if you like, the love of the overarching symbolism of leadership. And you have to bear in mind that

1:29.9

this is also very strategic. Who is the great partner of the United Kingdom in building the new

1:35.8

six-generation fighter, which British Aerospace is called The Tempest? It's Italy and Japan.

1:42.3

They are the partners with Britain and this. And this breaks it out of the EU mold and gives

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