What Next: Charles In Charge

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🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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It’s the first British coronation in 70 years and along with the celebration, questions abound: What kind of king will Charles be? Who is Charles anyway? And why even have a king? Guest: Imogen West-Knights, writer and Slate contributor If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.9	When I asked Image in West Nights who covers all things British here at Slate,
0:41.9	to quantify just how enthusiastically her friends and neighbors are anticipating the
0:46.5	coronation of King Charles, she talked about the street parties many are holding on Saturday,
0:51.7	the coronation quiche, some diehards are making, and then she talked about Colin.
0:58.0	Do you guys know about Colin the Caterpillar?
1:01.9	The what?
1:02.8	Colin the Caterpillar?
1:04.0	Colin the Caterpillar.
1:05.2	What are you doing?
1:06.1	This is kind of a tangent.
1:07.4	But so in the UK there's this thing called Colin the Caterpillar, which is a Caterpillar shaped
1:12.0	cake that's traditional to buy people on their birthdays and every supermarket does its own
1:16.8	version with different names with the original school Colin and supermarkets are doing the like
1:21.2	coronation themed Colin cake with like a little crown on it.
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