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Pod Save The King

Kings and Queens: Charles continues 1200 years of resilience and adaptability

Pod Save The King

Reach Podcasts

News Commentary, News, Society & Culture

3.71K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

King Charles III has the weight not just of his mother’s long reign behind him, but 1,200 years of history. Pod Save the King host Ann Gripper is joined by writer, broadcaster and podcaster Iain Dale, editor of Kings and Queens featuring an essay on each of the English and British monarchs since Alfred the Great - and a few who come with an asterisk. They discuss the past emotional year of royal history, why Charles’s reign has got off to a better start than expected, what makes a memorable monarch and the resilience and adaptability the monarchy has shown to survive this long. *** Pod Save the King is a Reach production. It is presented by Ann Gripper, and edited by Daniel J. McLaughlin. Image: Ranald Mackechnie/Handout via REUTERS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.0

Hello and welcome back to POD Save the King. I'm your host Anne Gripper and I'm delighted to be joined by a new guest today. Big welcome to the writer, broadcaster and podcaster Ian Dale, he wrote the Prime Ministers, he wrote the

0:53.8

President and now he's written Kings and Queens so he had to have him on the show.

0:57.9

Ian welcome great to have you with us.

0:59.9

Well thank you for inviting me I should make clear I edited those books, not actually wrote all of them, but though I have written chapters in them.

1:06.0

Curated and edited.

1:08.0

A excellent weighty, I was probably two inches thick this book. I mean there's a lot of people who have

1:14.1

who have sat on the throne and you include even some people who not strictly

1:19.0

kings or queens or never even came close really but are very much part of that royal lineage and

1:24.8

history and we'll come to that but what made you you know what made you want to write

1:29.6

this one because Royals is you know you confess is not your sort of specific area of expertise?

1:35.6

Well back in 2020 I edited a book called the Prime Ministers 300 years of political history and the reason I did that was because it was the three in April 2021 it would be the 300th anniversary of Sir Robert Walcott coming to power and he was seen as Britain's first prime minister.

1:54.6

And we all love an anniversary, don't we?

1:56.1

So I thought, I couldn't believe that nobody had done this book already. So I started out by recruiting a load of academics, historians, politicians,

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