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#PREVIEW: #KingCharlesReport: #SCOTLAND: Fun conversation with colleague Gregory Copley about why the King and Queen are planning on a month in Scotland during the gloomy, early sundown, gray and colorlessly damp Scottish Winter.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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#PREVIEW: #KingCharlesReport: #SCOTLAND: Fun conversation with colleague Gregory Copley about why the King and Queen are planning on a month in Scotland during the gloomy, early sundown, gray and colorlessly damp Scottish Winter.

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/king-charles-spend-january-scotland-165900894.html

1845 St Andrews Scotland

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0:00.0

Get a Neff dishwasher for just 149 in Wrens famous winter sale.

0:04.8

The Great Renovation.

0:06.6

Off the replies when you buy five or more units ends 10th of Jan.

0:10.0

This is John Bachelor.

0:11.2

Gregory Coppley, my colleague and I, make a report on King Charles every week.

0:17.0

And in this instance, King Charles is reported with the Queen, Camilla.

0:23.4

Going to Scotland for some time in the winter.

0:26.4

I recall Scotland as dark early and damp in the wintertime.

0:31.7

It's not the beauty of the springtime or the summer.

0:35.0

Nonetheless, Gregory has an explanation for me about why Scotland becomes important to the new king. I also mentioned that the king made a

0:46.3

wonderful Christmas address about ecology. The king is to be celebrated and

0:51.1

Gregory has taught me he's an Australian national therefore part of the Commonwealth

0:56.3

that America misses out on having a sovereign that the unhappy words of the 18th century keep us apart.

1:04.4

Nonetheless, King Charles celebrates Scotland and why.

1:09.2

Here's Gregory Coppley to explain.

1:11.8

Well, it might be Drich and Drir in Scotland at this time of year, but it's also a very heartwarming time of year and it's

1:20.0

important for the king to as did his mother, Queen Elizabeth, to identify strongly with

1:28.6

Scotland as a major and probably the major component of the United Kingdom with England.

1:38.0

Wales is less fractious, although it's an interesting situation there too in Northern Ireland, but the reality is that Scotland is critical to the continued strategic success of the United Kingdom, not just because it was also the great

1:57.0

font of industry. In fact, Glasgow was historically the second city of the

2:01.6

Empire because of its great manufacturing and

2:04.9

trade capabilities but it is arguably Scotland is vitally important to to

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