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Hello and welcome to the edition podcast from The Spectator.

Each week we look at three pieces from the magazine with the writers behind them.

I'm William Moore, the Spectator's features editor.

And I'm Laura Prendergast, The Spectators Executive Editor.

On this week's episode, we'll be looking ahead to this weekend's coronation, asking whether generational reparations are just a token gesture, and learning about the art of hedge-laying.

First up, in his cover piece for the magazine, Daily Mail writer, author of Queen of Our Times,

and co-presenter of the Tea at the Palace podcast, Robert Hardman, looks ahead to the reign of King Charles III.

Robert joins us now alongside the historian David Starkey, who's also interviewed in the magazine by Lynn Barber this week.

Robert, what sort of monarch do you think King Charles III will be? Well, as I say in my piece, Laura, I think he's a king

in a hurry. He's, you know, he accepts that he's now the oldest newcomer to the throne we've

ever had. I mean, everyone used to say, well, the Queen's the longest reigning, longest serving monarch, which was true, but it meant

that he was the longest serving heir to the throne. He'll be 75 later this year, and he can't

really afford to, you know, do much chin scratching and work out what he wants to do. He has

been giving it a great deal of thought. He didn't tell us what he planned to do while his mother was queen, simply because I think he

thought that was inappropriate. So we were always asking, you know, what's the reign of Charles

the third going to look like? And I think already we see it's going to be more transparent. I mean, you know, the fact

the accession council there it was on TV on day two, I think inevitably he's got to move with

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