Despite successive royal scandals and crises, support for the monarchy has remained robust.
The threat of a Jacobin-style insurgency in modern Britain would seem, on the face of it, rather remote. In order to minimize the potential for such rabble-rousing, they propose to speed things up as much as decorum will allow: in contrast to the stately sixteen-month pause that elapsed between the death of King George VI, in February, 1952, and the anointing of the Queen, in June, 1953, King Charles III will be whisked to Westminster Abbey no later than three months after his mother’s demise. One of their chief concerns, apparently, is that republicans may try to use the interval between the death of the old monarch and the coronation of the new one to whip up anti-royal sentiment. Illustration by Floc’hįor at least a decade, senior aides at Buckingham Palace have been quietly finessing arrangements for the moment when the Queen dies and her son Prince Charles becomes sovereign. Charles has become unpopular trying to carve out a role while waiting longer to reign than any previous Prince of Wales.
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