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The John Batchelor Show

Preview: Colleague Gregory Copley cheers King Charles's visit to Rome, and what it represents for British ambitions.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Preview: Colleague Gregory Copley cheers King Charles's visit to Rome, and what it represents for British ambitions.
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This is John Batchel, a conversation with colleague Gregory Copley about King Charles and Queen Camilla in Rome in front of the Coliseum, the excitement to meet Charles. The mission here is trans-European, however, looking to link Britain with Italy. Gregory

0:51.1

mentions aerospace and arrow defense.

0:55.0

At the same time, Charles is symbolic for the British government and the British people,

1:01.6

and Rome celebrates them. Wonderful to see.

1:04.7

Remember, the British Empire was built upon the memory of the Roman Empire.

1:09.5

And the American Empire is built upon the memory of the British Empire, built upon the memory of the Roman Empire. And the American Empire is built upon the memory of the British Empire,

1:12.8

built upon the memory of the Roman Empire.

1:15.6

There's a consistency of architecture, of law,

1:19.2

of personality, of celebrity, of military might.

1:24.8

King Charles in Rome.

1:27.0

More of this later. Oh, it's working in a dramatic scale.

1:32.4

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

1:36.3

couple of years, but this one is so dramatic and so in a sense anti-EU because the fervor is for continuity. It's for, if you like,

1:49.5

the love of the overarching symbolism of leadership. And you have to bear in mind that this is

1:56.5

also very strategic. Who is the great partner of the United Kingdom in building the new six-generation

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