I find it really unlikely he has been training for this job his entire life. He's now taking on this job after the time in which most people have retired. The Queen of the Netherlands abdicated a couple of years ago. It's not unknown among modern European royal families to do that and say you know what I don't see hours really getting to me. Even a pope did it in recent memory right? Yes. So it's you know it is an option but again I think her conception was very much that you know you had been anointed by God and therefore you carried on until the end. And there have been persistent rumours that there's been a similar thing about William and
Long live the king.
This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Serena Solin and Amina Al-Sadi with help from Amanda Lewellyn, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, who also edited.
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