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#KingCharles: Determined to attend Easter services after missing the Maundy Money speech. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs

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🗓️ 3 April 2024

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#KingCharles: Determined to attend Easter services after missing the Maundy Money speech. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/31/uk/king-charles-easter-sunday-church-intl-gbr-scli/index.html

1917 King George and Queen Mary

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This is

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this is CBSi in the world. I'm John Bachelor Easter time.

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Gregory Coppley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs

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this year.

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Also my guide, my guide on the Commonwealth

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to understand Kingship.

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And this is the King Charles report.

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On Easter Day, he was at Windsor Castle. I asked Gregory how far it is from the

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residents at Windsor Castle to the chapel where the king and queen and others

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gathered for Easter services. The king was driven and he didn't walk because

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he's undergoing the cancer treatments. We can only guess it where he is in the

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regime. Having gone through it I know that there is no one spot that you can choose better than any other.

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It was very brave of the king to walk what he did.

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He did not look unhealthy. He didn't look vigorous either and so good for him for

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showing up at the services I'm sure it pained him that he couldn't participate in

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all of the conduct that day including luncheon I believe

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and Gregory you tell me there's another ceremony that the king missed mondy money what is that

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well yes on mondy Thursday, the Thursday before Good Friday, there's been a tradition

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since the 1600s where the monarch would distribute what they call mondi money.

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This is from the mandate of Christ to look after those less fortunate.

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And that for many, many decades involved the sovereign himself kneeling before some of the poorest people in the community and washing their feet in the manner of Christ and giving

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money, special money from the king.

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