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PREVIEW: #KING CHARLES: #QUEEN CAMILLA: Conversation with colleague Gregory Copley re the success of the King and Queen to visit the Channel Islands to recognize prized goats - centering the nation on scenes of common joy in a time of turmoil in Europe. M

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 July 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: #KING CHARLES: #QUEEN CAMILLA: Conversation with colleague Gregory Copley re the success of the King and Queen to visit the Channel Islands to recognize prized goats - centering the nation on scenes of common joy in a time of turmoil in Europe. More later.

1917 King George and Queen Mary at the Western Front

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0:00.0

Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

0:10.0

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

0:15.0

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

0:19.0

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

0:23.0

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

0:26.0

Piento Ferries, there is another way.

0:30.0

This is John Batchelor, conversation with my good colleague Gregory Coppley about the monarchy,

0:36.6

King Charles and Queen Camilla visiting the Channel Islands, to bless a special goat, an inheritor of characteristics, a breed of goat that was hidden

0:46.8

from the Nazis when the Channel Islands were occupied in the 20th century during the Second

0:51.8

War. The joy of it is that the king and queen had great

0:55.8

fun on the channel islands. It was a sunny day and the report included the nine-year-old whose's father owns one of the prize goats, who told the king that

1:06.2

he'd washed it, especially with head and shoulders to make it nice for the king.

1:11.2

This story is an example of how the monarchy centers the country and the culture with joy, not political favoritism.

1:24.0

The US lacks such a thing.

1:26.0

We lack a monarchy or a centering force.

1:30.0

Hence we've turned into food fights, point, counterpoint, bashing each other.

1:36.4

That's fine for politicians, but we need something that organizes us and the Constitution

1:41.5

did not provide something other than a head of state who was also head of government.

1:46.0

Well, bipartisan government.

1:50.0

It's a shortfall in the Constitution and Gregory makes a point that once the Constitution stood in for the King, but no more, no longer.

1:59.0

We argue even over that, over the words in the Constitution. And we can admire the King,

2:06.9

once upon a time the King of America, who is now the King of Great Britain and

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