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Jonathan Meades: Closing Time for the Firm

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The Crown May Come to Have a Far Greater Influence

i think e the crown may come to have a far greater influence than it did during his mother's reign. She was extraordinarily mute, and one would occasionally get some sort of hint of what her opinions were subjects other than horse racing. But for the most part, she was a kind of blank on which people could refite their own thoughts. And harder, harder to pretend that with charles on the throne yet, much harder. i mean, he can't keep his mouth shut. He is famously more irascible than his mother,. As we saw with that incident with the pen, which, as some people said, is almost like a mister beanscotehe did look extraordinarily

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