This is CBSI in the World, the King Charles Report. Special edition with Gregory Copley,

editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs, Gregory has a widestism in his most

recent analysis of monarchy. King Farouk was asked about monarchy and he predicted, at

some time in the future there'd only be five monarchies. That would be the King of Hearts,

the King of Spades, King of Diamonds, the King of Clubs, and Windsor. Well, he was

wrong, Gregory, but Windsor put on a great demonstration of the genius of monarchy in these last days.

Were they successful? I believe that King Charles was successful in

relaunching the monarchy into the modern world. I don't think he was as successful as he would have

liked to have been. I think largely because the ideology behind his plan for the new monarchy

was not widely understood and he was doing it more or less, leading this by himself and on the fly.

He was not able, I think, to engender sufficient enthusiasm for the concept of constitutional monarchy

among the Commonwealth. I think he did so dramatically in the four areas that make up the

United Kingdom itself, England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. But what we saw was that

this time they didn't have the Prime Minister of Canada attending the coronation. Yes, we had the

Prime Minister of Australia and the Governor General of Australia, which was very important.

The reality is that the new monarchy has not been explained sufficiently. He wanted, I think, to

modernise it by making it more appealing to young people. That certainly had a partial success

with the post coronation parties and with the slimmed down coronation ceremony, which was not as

religious as in previous years. Essentially, he's now got to take his position

as having successfully bedded down the new dynasty, the new reign, not the new dynasty, but the new

reign, and make it much more viable for the Commonwealth. He's by separate acclaim, the head of the

Commonwealth, the old British Empire, but that's not something which he can take for granted. And not

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