This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Bachelor.

The coronation of King Charles III.

Since 1066, every English crown in that cathedral except two minor details, one having to do with murder in the 15th centuries,

another having to do with the abdication in the 20th century.

But we come to what Charles III inherited the moment his mother passed away.

Fourteen realms, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Pavel, New Guinea, St. Kitson, Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, the Grenadine, Solomon Islands, and Tuvalu.

I welcome Gregory Copley, who's a national of one of those realms, Australia, because this is all new to me.

Gregory forgives me for having not had an education in kingship in the 20th century because America had this dispute in the 18th and 19th century with Mother Britain.

Enjoying on television, the coronation of King Charles III was a way to reconnect to the original understanding of the British Isles and the Empire of Great Britain.

Gregory, a very good day to you.

Thank you. You witnessed this as well, but your education as a colonial is way ahead of mine.

What did you sense you were seeing Charles project in the presentation that he made?

He designed this. He followed through with it. It was his coronation. What's the message that he conveyed to those 14 realms and indeed the rest of the planet? Good evening to you.

Good evening, John. Well, every British monarch is entitled to shape his or her coronation to reflect their values and their hopes.

What we saw with the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla was the reality that the king had now entered into that binding social contract with his people in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.

And that was different from just being named King as successor to his mother, Queen Elizabeth, when she died on September the 8th last year.

So the ceremony of the coronation, which is a coronation, a crowning and an enthronement literally spells the board of a better word mystical commitment of the crown to the people and device versa, which was one of the things that he did.

And the answer, which was why the audience at the cathedral and the public at large were asked to reciprocate King Charles commitment of loyalty and many in myself did so at that time.

It is a social contract and that's something which we don't see today in most republics and most modern so-called democracies, which are drifting away from that entire explicit commitment to a social contract between governed and governors.

And without that social contract, you tend to become subject to the government, the people become subject to the government rather than the government subject to the people.

And this is what the coronation wanted to spell out.

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